Within hours of discovering the body of 25-year-old Tamara Santori dead in her home on McGrath Road on Tuesday, troopers arrested her husband, 25-year-old Jason Gautam, on charges of first degree murder. After his Monday arrest, Gautam was to be arraigned early on Tuesday afternoon. But, on Tuesday, charging documents had yet to be filed […]
Former Alaskan Steven Michael Wilson was sentenced in the 5th Circuit Court in Kauai on Thursday for the April 2013 stabbing death of 21-year-old Kendra Lewis. 27-year-old Wilson was sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome murder of the Alaska woman that traveled with him to Hawaii despite the urging of her family. Lewis’s […]
Washington, DC — Alaska ranked first in the nation in the rate of women murdered by men, with a rate of 2.57 per 100,000, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2012 Homicide Data. This year’s report applies to 2012, the most recent year for which […]
Human Rights Watch says the Islamic State group massacred as many as 770 Iraqi soldiers who were captured when the militants overran an Iraqi military base in June. The figure is much higher than what the New York-based rights group originally reported and is based on new evidence showing more execution sites. Human Rights Watch […]