GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office reports Iraqi civilians are increasingly being used as pawns by Islamic State militants in their battle for Mosul. The agency says it has received credible reports of hundreds of executions, mass abductions, and the use of civilians as human shields. The agency reports Islamic State militants have been forcing […]
During the early morning hours on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were informed that a 38-year-old man in that community had died as a direct result of a fight with another man in the village. Immediately after receiving the notification of the incident at 1:30 am, troopers departed from Kotzebue to the village 70 miles to […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified of a physical altercation taking place on Mission Beach on the outskirts of Kodiak on Sunday, and responded to the scene, taking one into custody, the trooper dispatch reported on Wednesday morning. It was at 7:50 pm on Sunday, that a concerned citizen called in to the Alaska State Troopers […]
The Alaska Bureau of Investigation released additional information into the trooper-involved shooting of the Sterling motorist, Jon Ployhar, that occurred at mile 82 of the Sterling Highway at 11:20 pm on last Saturday. According to the report, Trooper John King, of the Soldotna Patrol, attempted to pull over Ployhar on a traffic stop for an […]