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Fairbanks gun dealer charged in murder-for-hire plot

A federal grand jury has indicted a Fairbanks gun dealer on charges he plotted to pay $40,000 to have someone killed in another state.

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FAIRBANKS

Lost, blind dog finds way back to Fairbanks owners

Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures that dipped 40 degrees below zero, a lost 8-year-old Fairbanks dog wasn't given much of a chance to make it home.
FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks summit addresses rural learning

FAIRBANKS -- School district superintendents, teachers, elders and others from the Interior region gathered to share concerns such as dropping enrollment, and ideas for improving schools last week at the 2012 Interior Education Summit hosted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference.
FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks bird welfare group calls it quits

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CRIME

Fairbanks man gets 2 years in drug-ring conviction

A Fairbanks man was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a drug conspiracy that ran a recording business as its front.
FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks girl, 5, among few with genetic disorder

FAIRBANKS -- A 5-year-old girl zooms around the fish tanks, pausing every time a bright pink fin catches her eye. Her father swoops close behind, grasping for her hood. "M.J., M.J., slow down," he says. She makes a dash for a group of yellow, blue and green birds singing in their cages, her strong...
FAIRBANKS

Militia member files appeal on weapons convictions

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- A Fairbanks militia member is appealing his conviction on federal weapons charges.
FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks man gets 60 years for fatal shooting

A Fairbanks man will serve 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in a shooting outside Ivory Jack's restaurant.
ELECTION

Sanford elected mayor in Juneau; Hopkins re-elected in Fairbanks borough

Juneau voters picked former Assemblyman Merrill Sanford to replace Bruce Botelho, who was prohibited by term limits from running again. In the Fairbanks North Star Borough, incumbent Mayor Luke Hopkins won a second three-year term with more than 51 percent of the vote.
FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks rejects borough oversight of wood-burning emissions

Voters in the Fairbanks North Star Borough have approved an initiative that bans borough officials from regulating air pollution from home heating devices, including hydronic heaters that burn wood.
CRIME

Fairbanks police ordered to make quota of traffic stops

Patrol officers in the Fairbanks Police Department have been ordered to make at least eight traffic stops per week, but they don't necessarily have to result in citations.