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Mechele Linehan trial

Linehan Bail Hearing

Mechele Linehan attends a bail hearing Friday afternoon August 26, 2011 at Nesbett Courthouse.

Mechele Linehan remains free on bail and withdraws her request to leave the state for medical treatment at a hearing Friday afternoon August 26, 2011 at Nesbett Courthouse.

Linehan sentenced to 99 years

  Mechele Linehan was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of Kent Leppink on April 2, 2008.

On Wednesday, April 2, 2008, Superior Court Judge Philip Volland sentenced Mechele Linehan to 99 years in prison for her role in the murder of Kent Lippink.

Linehan sentencing

Mechele Linehan is advised by defense attorney Kevin Fitzgerald prior to leaving the courtroom as court ends before her sentencing hearing is completed Friday afternoon March 28, 2008 downtown. The process is scheduled to continue next Wednesday afternoon.

Images from Mechele Linehan's sentencing. Linehan, convicted of setting up the murder of a former boyfriend, was sentenced in Anchorage Superior Court on Friday, March 28, 2008.

Linehan murder trial

Linehan

Images from Mechele Linehan's trial. Linehan, convicted of setting up the murder of a former boyfriend, was convicted in Anchorage Superior Court on October 22, 2008.

John Carlin photos

John Carlin III, right, listens to Betsy Leppink testify in an Anchorage, Alaska courtroom Friday January 18, 2008, during his sentencing for the 1996 murder of her son Kent Leppink. Carlin was sentenced to 99 years in prison for being the trigger man in a plot with former stripper Mechele Linehan to kill Leppink for a one  million dollar  life insurance policy.

John Carlin was convicted in 2007 of conspiring with Mechele Linehan, a former Anchorage stripper turned soccer mom, in the 1996 shooting death of Linehan's fiance, Kent Leppink.

Reader-submitted: 2012 High School Grad

Location: sullivan arena, 05/07/12 dimond Grads

It's that time of the year: high school seniors celebrate the end of their tenure and begin to embark on the next stage of their long lives. Show off your accomplishment and see who else flipped the tassel.

Reader-submitted: 2012 UAA Grad

Location: Sullivan Arena, 05/06/12

Another college class graduating into the real world. Post a photo of your special graduate and see others.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

Reader submitted: Alaska dogs

Location: White Mountain, 5/18/2007 Jace Kaden Gray watching over the frozen Fish River

Reader submitted dog photographs.

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade Deployment Ceremony

Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing

The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Southcentral Power Project

Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.

Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center

Goose Creek Correctional Center

Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Operation Bulldog Bite

Photo courtesy MSgt. Roger Sparks

Master Sgt. Roger Sparks talks about the experience of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan.



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