Americans are commemorating Presidents Day Monday, a federal holiday honoring all U.S. presidents. The holiday is observed on the third Monday of February, the birth month of two of the country’s most prominent presidents – George Washington, the nation’s first president, and Abraham Lincoln, who led the country through the Civil War. While some U.S. […]
The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly 70 years. Lisa Montgomery was put to death early Wednesday at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. A series of legal challenges seeking to stop the execution ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling late Tuesday it could go […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Tuesday Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Dr. Tamika L. Ledbetter announced that this week the department began issuing the $300 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payments, provided for in the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020. These payments are being made on regular unemployment insurance claims for the […]
Fairbanks, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that 40-year-old Sherman Kay Howard, of Fairbanks, Alaska, has been sentenced on charges of possessing with intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine and over 100 grams of heroin. Court records state that on February 11, 2019, Alaska State Troopers conducted a traffic stop on Howard’s […]