On Oct. 11, 1968, NASA launched its first crewed Apollo mission, which paved the way for the moon landing less than a year later. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Wally Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot Walt Cunningham. The mission consisted of an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to test the Apollo command and […]
Fairbanks man, Anthony Jenkins-Alexie, has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Fairbanks in connection with the October 2016 shooting of Fairbanks police officer Sergeant Allen Brandt, U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder with the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. Jenkins-Alexie was indicted on charges that include Using a Firearm during a Crime of Violence, […]
A female inmate at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center was charged with one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance in Federal Court on Tuesday after a rash of overdoses on the powerful narcotic Fentanyl in that facility in October. The first of five overdoses at the facility occurred the very same day that 36-year-old Dorothy […]