An African American man was fatally shot Wednesday night by a police officer during a traffic stop in the midwestern city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, prompting the governor, Mark Dayton, to call for an independent federal investigation. It was the second fatal police shooting of an African American male by white police officers in […]
A murder suspect took Anchorage police on a search lasting almost three hours on Monday evening in South Anchorage but was eventually taken into custody at 10:22 pm, police say. Anchorage police responded to a shooting call at an address in the 4000 block of Lore Road at 7:45 pm. When police arrived at the address, […]
Anchorage police report that they have arrested a suspect that they believe was involved in the shooting of another on 37th Avenue and Wyoming Drive at just after 8:30 pm on Thursday night. Police investigated reports of several shots fired by citizens in the area. When they arrived on the scene, they found an Anchorage […]
Following the death of the Fairbanks teen who was shot during a large party on Drake Street in Fairbanks, the juvenile who was previously remanded to the McLaughlin Youth Center has been waved out of the juvenile justice system and is now being prosecuted as an adult, the Alaska State Troopers revealed on Wednesday. Troopers […]