WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has commuted the prison sentence of former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of military documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. She now will be freed in May. She is among 209 prison commutations and 64 pardons […]
The two leaders of the Bali Nine, who were convicted and sentenced to death in 2006, faced a firing squad shortly after midnight on the penitentiary island of Nusakambangan in Java. Two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, joined six other drug offenders in front of a 12-man firing squad in a jungle […]
With temperatures dipping to almost -30 degrees F, a Northwest Arctic Borough Village Public Safety Officer in Shungnak received a call-in of a female lying motionless in the snow. The officer responded to the area near the Shungnak Post Office to find a Shungnak resident, 38-year-old Elaine Tickett highly intoxicated and unable to stand in […]
Two California men pleaded guilty to illegal fishing charges in Sitka District Court on Tuesday for charges incurred late last month prior to the trolling season opening up on July 1. It was on June 30th that Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted the captain and crew of the fishing vessel “Chief Joseph” while it lay at […]