Two Savoonga sisters were sentenced for their embezzlement of funds from that community while working with the Non-Profit, Kawarak Incorporated between April 2011 and May 2012, Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced on Thursday. Sylvia Toolie, age 60, and her sister, Peggy Akeya, age 57, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reporting that at least 800 carcasses of seabirds, that include Northern Fulmars, Kittiwakes, Shearwaters, Murres and Auklets have been observed on the beaches throughout the Bering Sea and Bering Straits since early August of this year. “Dead and dying seabirds have been reported from Shishmaref, south to the Pribilof […]
Anchorage police say that with the assistance of an alert citizen who received their Nixle Alert, they have apprehended the man who they say is a person of interest in the death of a man at the Aurora Paint Company on Monday. An employee of the company called in to police at 8:50 am and […]
Anchorage police say they caught the suspect in the shooting at Bullion Brothers in Spenard, they have revealed his identtity as that of Anthony Pisano. It was at 9:56 am on Tuesday that police in Anchorage responded to the scene of a reported shooting. When they arrived at 3201 Spenard Road, they found one man […]