Washington, DC — Newly available data for 2015 reveals that states with weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation, according to a Violence Policy Center (VPC) analysis of just-released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for […]
(STATEWIDE, ALASKA)—The 14th annual nationwide Family Violence Warrant SWEEP was conducted across the country on October 19, 2016. The SWEEP is a day-long event in which law enforcement agencies across the United States attempt to serve outstanding family-violence warrants. The SWEEP has been held annually for the last 13 years with a total of 64,048 […]
Wasilla-based Alaska State Troopers arrested an Anchorage woman on various warrants and a stolen handgun early Thursday morning after responding to a disturbance call, the trooper dispatch revealed today. Troopers responded to an apartment complex on Tweed Court at 4:32 am on Thursday morning after receiving a disturbance report and contacted 44-year-old Anchorage resident, Armthea […]
WHITE HOUSE—The heated debate over the intense and often hateful atmosphere of Donald Trump’s campaign rallies continued Monday as the White House called for the Republican leadership to take responsibility for their party’s presidential front-runner. Violent confrontations between protesters and Trump supporters at a Chicago rally Friday night prompted Democrats to blame dysfunction in the […]