ISLAMABAD—Taliban insurgents have stormed a prison in central Afghanistan, allowing hundreds of inmates to escape. Afghan officials say the well-organized pre-dawn assault began with a suicide car bombing at the entrance that allowed other insurgents to get into the prison in the province of Ghazni. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Najib Danish, told VOA the facility […]
Alaska State Troopers report that there is no evidence of a third party involved in the death of two Emmonak residents discovered in a residence in Emmonak on Thursday. Troopers responded to the community of Emmonak on Thursday to find two individuals dead in the community there. 44-year-old Louis Kelly and 38-year-old Mary Aketchunak, both […]
Alaska State Troopers report via the trooper dispatch that they responded to a shooting at a Sterling residence at 4:39 pm on Sunday. Troopers say a 44-year-old Sterling man called, in reporting that 31-year-old Nikiski resident John Rutherford had shot himself, and was dead at the scene. Troopers responded and conducted an investigation at the […]
Anchorage police, at a news conference on Thursday, revealed the names of the family found dead in their south Anchorage home on Wednesday. They were identified as 24-year-old Curtis Young, 27-year-old Desiree Leandra Gonzalez, 4-year-old Zaiden Young, and 17-month-old Zarielle Young. Police announced on Thursday that the incident was determined to have been isolated in the home […]