Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is bringing Washington-based Tsimshian master artist David A. Boxley to Juneau to teach formline design to inmates at the local prison. Boxley, an advanced Tsimshian language student, also will teach language mini-immersion classes in the evenings at the Walter Soboleff Building. A masterpiece by Boxley was unveiled during the grand opening […]
Crown Point-based Alaska State troopers were dispatched to Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward at approximately 5 pm after receiving a report of a 31-year-old female, Amanda Bee of North Pole, at the perimeter of the center with a firearm. The woman was demanding the release of convicted criminals, who have not been identified. She […]
The Department of Corrections informed the Alaska Bureau of Investigation of the death of one of their inmates at the Alaska Regional Hospital late Saturday afternoon. The investigation into the death of 74-year-old William J. Wilson of Anchorage was deemed death by natural causes. Wilson had been incarcerated since his conviction for Murder II in […]
An Oakland township, Michigan hematologist-Oncologist was sentenced in federal court on Friday for administering unnecessary infusions and injections to approximately 553 patients in a massive $34 million Medicare and insurance scam. He received 45 years. 50-year-old Farid Fata, MD of the Detroit area previously pled guilty to 13 counts of health care fraud, one count of […]