Two hypothermic kayakers were fished from the waters of of Portage Lake after their kayaks overturned there on Sunday, the trooper dispatch reports. It was at 1:08 pm that 25-year-old Stephanie Hawkins with Portage Valley Tours, contacted troopers and reported that two kayaks had overturned in the lake and two persons were floating motionless in […]
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 […]