A Saturday afternoon head-on collision on the Glenn Highway took the life of one and seriously injured another, the trooper dispatch reports. Troopers responded to the scene near Kepler Drive at mile 37 of the highway at 2:54 pm on Saturday. Their investigation found that 79-year-old Jack K. Watson of Oregon, was traveling northbound on […]
A Galena woman was charged with DUI and Leaving the Scene of an Injury Accident on Sunday evening after hitting a pedestrian, trooper dispatch reports. The ensuing trooper investigation would reveal that 63-year-old Galena woman Glenda Huntington was driving impaired on the Tiger Freeway in the small community, when she impacted head-on a pedestrian who […]
Alaska State Troopers divulged to name of the driver involved in a high-speed late chase last week, where a trooper vehicle was rammed twice during a traffic’s incident. Although troopers had initially contacted the driver on W. Clairborne Drive near Hollywood Road, the driver gave the officer a false name. Spokesperson for AST, Megan Peters, said that […]
A crewmember aboard the Icy Mist, a 58-foot fishing vessel, suffered injuries while loading crab pots 150 miles to the south of Sand Point on Sunday evening. The Coast Guard was notified of the incident and the man’s injuries and it was deemed a medvac was necessary. After the duty flight surgeon recommended the medevac, a Jayhawk […]