(Fairbanks, AK) – A Fairbanks jury Wednesday found 42-year-old Roberto Leal Jr. of Fairbanks guilty of murder in the second degree in the July 2017 killing of Robyn Gray. Leal was Gray’s boyfriend at the time. He was convicted for strangling her to death at her residence in Fairbanks. Leal faces a sentence of 15 to […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – A Fairbanks jury Thursday convicted a Maine man for killing and sexually assaulting 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in a dormitory on the University of Alaska at Fairbanks campus in April 1993. Jurors deliberated for three days before finding Steven Downs, 47, guilty of Murder in the First Degree and Sexual Assault. Downs is being […]
A few hours of a December day may affect living things for years to come in the middle of Alaska. On Dec. 26, more than an inch of rain fell over a wide swath of the state. Much of the backcountry of Interior Alaska now has an ice sheet beneath a foot of fluffy snow. […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A U.S. Army Alaska soldier was found dead in his off-post home in Fairbanks, Dec. 30. According to a dispatch from the Alaska State Troopers, first responders were notified of a CPR in progress in North Pole that afternoon. Troopers and North Pole Fire Department personnel […]