Fairbanks police continue to search for the man arrested on warrant charges on Tuesday night but escaped before he could be remanded to jail. Although leads have been phoned in on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, responding police still did not locate 28-year-old Julius “JT” Chambers. According to Fairbanks police Lt. Dan Welborn, Chambers was arrested […]
Despite her fiancee’s desire that she doesn’t receive more jail time than she has already served, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Michael McConahy handed down a sentence of 20 months on Monday to the Fairbanks woman, 32-year-old Lindsey Preshaw, who stabbed her fiancee/step brother John Preshaw in the lower leg with a butcher knife last June. Although she […]
A settlement has been made between the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and the U.S. Department of Agriculture after USDA accused UAF in mid-April of possible Animal Welfare Act violations and a failure to provide adequate veterinary care in the starvation deaths of 12 musk oxen at the large-animal research station. The animals either died or were […]
This spring, John Yarie learned of the death of the oldest living things he knew. Since 1988, the silviculture professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks had measured and fertilized a stand of giant spruce trees on a hillside south of Fairbanks. A few weeks ago, forest technicians visited the site and found that one […]