Alaska State Troopers had to divert traffic around an accident scene near mile 50 of the Parks Highway after a three-vehicle accident there at 11:10 am on Tuesday, trooper dispatch reported. When troopers arrived at the scene this morning, their investigation revealed that a silver sedan driven by 71-year-old John Hensel was rear-ended while he […]
A Northstar Center inmate in Fairbanks died at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital on Monday evening the trooper dispatch reports. 36-year-old Dustin Wallace was admitted to the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital on July 6th after becoming ill at the center. The nature of his illness has not been disclosed. Wallace was awaiting sentencing in drug and weapons-related […]
JUNEAU, Alaska —A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 47-year-old man near Sitka, Alaska, Sunday. The Air Station Sitka crew safely transported the man from a beach to Sitka Community Hospital. Watchstanders from the Coast Guard 17th District command center received a report from the crew of the Wilderness Adventurer, a 156-foot passenger vessel, that the man […]
The three-week manhunt for two escaped convicts from Clinton Prison in Dannamorra, New York, came to a close on Sunday afternoon when a sharp-eyed State Police Officers spotted David Sweat walking on a road approximately 1.5 miles from the Canadian border and shot Sweat twice in the torso as Sweat attempted to flee. The wounded […]