Alaska State Troopers have released the name of the suspect who brandished a firearm and was ultimately shot and killed in an officer-involved shooting in a Fairbanks McDonalds parking lot, as 25-year-old Kevin Ray McEnulty. The incident began at 8:40 pm when University of Alaska-Fairbanks police called in to report a shots-fired incident. By […]
IDITAROD, ALASKA — While gliding along a trail that had just felt the imprint of 2,000 dog feet, Bob Gillis skied over to a rock that jutted from the snow. A few miles northwest of the ghost town that gives the world’s most famous sleddog race its name, Gillis and I were in the […]
(Anchorage) – Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer signed an extradition request to the Governor of Maine on March 7 for Steven Harris Downs, a former student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, accused of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual assault in the death of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in April 1993. “After 26 long years, it […]
Utilizing advances in genetic profiling, the Alaska State Troopers have made an arrest in a 26-year-old Fairbanks cold case murder that occurred at the Bartlett Hall on the UAF campus on April 26th, 1993, AST announced at Anchorage’s Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. Investigators say that for over 20 years info trickled in the murder case […]