Iranian state media said the government showcased a domestically-built long-range, mobile surface-to-air missile system on Thursday. The system’s unveiling came on Iran’s National Defense Industry Day and at a time of rising tension between Iran and the United States. Iran developed a large domestic arms industry in the face of international sanctions and embargoes […]
President Donald Trump has told the head of the National Rifle Association that strengthening background checks for gun buyers is “off the table,” the Atlantic magazine reports. “He was cementing his stance that we already have background checks and that he’s not waffling on this anymore,” Atlantic quotes a top White House official who […]
An armed Delta Junction driver with suicidal tendencies and suspected of being a drunk driver was reported to troopers at 6:11 pm on Friday evening, AST reported on Saturday. Troopers responded to the IGA store in Delta Junction in reference to the report to find that the driver, later identified as Valeriy Ovchinnikov, age […]
Alaska State Troopers in Soldotna were called out to a shots-fired incident early on Saturday morning at Opal Street in Nikiski, the trooper dispatch reports. At 3:06 am on Saturday troopers went to the address to find that 37-year-old Cody Fitzpatrick, who is reported to be a convicted felon, had assaulted another at that […]