Alaska State Troopers reported today that the remains of the Yute Air pilot, 47-year-old Blaze Highlander of Olympia, Washington, were discovered in the aircraft that was located overturned and wrecked in the Kwethluk River. Highlander had taken the aircraft out on Saturday morning, and was last heard from as he left Bethel airspace at 8:50 am […]
Almost ten months after Wassillie Gregory pleaded “guilty” to the charge of harassment in Bethel Court, that conviction has been dropped after a video depicting the incident in the Alaska Commercial parking lot in Bethel, and recorded on AC’s own surveillance cameras, spurred Gregory’s attorney to pursue the reversal. Gregory pleaded out to the charge one […]
Seventy years after his death, then 14-year-old George Stinney Jr got justice of sorts when his conviction for the killing of two young white girls was vacated by South Carolina Judge Carmen Mullins on Wednesday morning. Young Stinney was executed in that state’s electric chair less than three months after his conviction on the murder […]
On Sunday, October 12, a ruling in US District Court by US District Judge Timothy Burgess’s was issued overturning the 16 year ban on same-sex marriage in the state of Alaska. It was in 1998, the state of Alaska, along with Hawaii, passed an amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and woman. […]