May 9th, 1907
Anchorage Man Sentenced for Falsely Marketing Goods as Alaska Native-Made
On March 10, 2021, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason of the District of Alaska sentenced Lee Screnock, 60, for misrepresenting hundreds of his own carvings as being made by an Alaska Native artist. This action is a felony violation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (IACA), which prohibits false marketing of arts […]
Anchorage Man Arrested in FNBA Parking Lot after Attempting to Cash Stolen Check
Anchorage police report that they took an Anchorage man into custody on forgery and other charges after he attempted to cash a stolen check at the First National Bank on 36th Avenue on Monday afternoon. An employee at FNBA called Anchorage dispatch at 4:32 pm on Monday and informed them that a man had come […]
Department issues Form 1099-G for those who file for unemployment insurance benefits
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development issues Form 1099-G to individuals who file for unemployment insurance benefits. Under federal law, unemployment insurance benefits are taxable income and must be reported to the IRS. Thousands of Alaskans were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and correctly received unemployment insurance benefits. However, criminal […]
Trump, Lead Impeachment Lawyers Part Ways Week Before Trial
WASHINGTON – With little more than a week before the start of his second Senate impeachment trial, former U.S. President Donald Trump has a legal team in apparent disarray. Two prominent South Carolina lawyers, Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, had been expected to be Trump’s lead lawyers. However, media reports Saturday said there was a […]
December 27th, 1909
Lindsey Graham Under Fire for Allegations He Urged Legal Ballots Be Tossed in Georgia
“Under the guise of rooting out election fraud, it looks like Graham is suggesting committing it.” Demands for an investigation and calls for Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to step down from his powerful position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee erupted late Monday night after Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said […]
McConnell Backs Trump’s Refusal to Concede to Biden
“There is no decisive pool of ‘illegal’ ballots, and Republican Party messaging on this score is at best a cynical attempt to delegitimize a decisive presidential defeat.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday made his first public remarks since President-elect Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but he made no mention […]
In Desperation Mode, Trump Planning to Hold Rallies and Display Obits of Supposedly Dead Voters
“Refusing to concede and launching a bunch of lawsuits is one thing. Staging big rallies to gin up his supporters against the president-elect seems like an order of magnitude worse.” In an increasingly flailing effort to undercut the legitimacy of his election loss at the hands of Joe Biden, President Donald Trump’s legal team and remaining campaign […]