SEWARD, Alaska — The AVTEC Alaska Maritime Training Center received a donation of $95,000 from the refining, marketing and logistics company Marathon Petroleum for the second time in two years. These funds allow AVTEC to enhance its arctic and ice navigation readiness project and upgrade the school’s full mission bridge ship simulator. Marathon Petroleum’s leadership […]
After over 14 hours of deliberations over a period of three days, the 12-person federal jury, comprised of seven women and five men, has determined that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death for his part in the 2013 bombing in that city. Tsarnaev showed no emotion, sitting with his head slightly lowered […]
The twelve-man jury, made up of seven women and five men, who found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of terrorism and other charges, began the deliberation as to his fate for those crimes on Wednesday. Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 counts, of which, 17 counts are eligible for the death penalty. It is up to the jury […]
With opening arguments scheduled to begin Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing trial, prosecutors have made a strong case in pre-trial evidentiary filings tying the lone survivor, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to the blasts that killed three and maimed scores. If prosecutors can persuade a jury that Tsarnaev is guilty, however, it’s an open question whether jurors […]