BEAUFORT SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers ventured onto a floe of multi-year ice for the first of three multi-instrument ice stations in the Arctic Ocean Basin late July and early August. As the Healy carefully approached and maintained position alongside an ice floe above 77 degrees north, […]
ANCHORAGE — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured crewmember Monday from a fishing vessel near St. Paul, Alaska. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched out of Forward Operating Location-Cold Bay and hoisted the man from the 169-foot fishing vessel Constellation at about 9:30 a.m., just outside St. Paul Harbor. […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the second of two burglary suspects with warrants was taken into custody by Metlakatla police late Saturday afternoon after he fled from them on Wednesday. Metlakatla police attempted to make contact with 26-year-old Brandi Edenshaw and 23-year-old James Acker of Ketchikan, both burglary suspects with warrants, shortly after the duo […]
Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that James Michael Wells, 68, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve life in federal prison for the April 2012 murders of two U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) employees, Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle. […]