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Civil rights advocates say it could also send more rehabilitated Alaskans home.
Police said an argument between two groups of people who didn’t know each other in a restaurant parking lot led to gunfire Sunday night.
The jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on three of the four charges against Tallon Westlake, who was charged in the death of his father, former state Rep. Dean Westlake.
He faces two counts each of first- and second-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder, seven counts of assault and a burglary charge in the shooting that left two people dead and two others injured.
The decision released Friday comes in a case that dates to 2012, when Alaska State Troopers had received a tip that a man was growing marijuana on his property north of Fairbanks.
Eric Richard Staples, who now lives in Girdwood, entered the Capitol through a broken window, charges filed against him said. It wasn’t clear why his arrest came more than three years later.
Nearly 280 officers will be wearing the cameras by mid-March, police Chief Michael Kerle said Wednesday.
At least one person was injured by gunfire during an altercation between people in a dark SUV and Jeep Cherokee on Monday evening, police say.
Justices were asked to consider that question as part of a 2022 lawsuit challenging the eligibility of a legislative candidate in Anchorage
Denali Brehmer was sentenced Monday to more than 25 years in prison on a federal child pornography charge.
Police located the 29-year-old Anchorage resident after finding the license plate from the Ford Explorer he was driving at the collision site, according to criminal charges.
No charges have been filed in the incident so far. Troopers said a man brandishing a knife had advanced toward the trooper before the trooper shot him.
Marley Marque was convicted in October on charges of first- and second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2020 killing of her son.
Alaska State Troopers say the man, who was seriously injured from the gunshot, didn’t comply with repeated commands from the trooper to drop the knife.
The suspect and victims didn’t know one another prior to the altercation in a laundry room early Wednesday morning, police said.
The indictment against former judge Margaret Murphy was exceptional for a number of reasons, growing out of an activist push to empower grand juries.
When police and medics arrived at Rovenna Street, they found a duplex that smelled like bleach, with a load of laundry in the washing machine. They also discovered a former state lawmaker dead on the floor.
Jimmy Dale Cates, now 58, attempted to sexually assault a woman in her apartment and strangled her before setting the building on fire, prosecutors said.
Johnny Rendon, 48, is accused of stabbing and seriously injuring another man during a fight inside the Gaslight Lounge early Saturday.
Two more adults were wounded during the shooting at a home in the North Slope village.
Police they have arrested a 48-year-old man in connection with the assault.
Burke, the top-finishing rookie in the 2023 Iditarod, had faced one felony charge and one misdemeanor stemming from an incident in Anchorage in May 2022.
After deliberating for less than two hours, an Anchorage jury convicted Brian Smith on all counts Thursday, finding him guilty of murdering Kathleen Jo Henry in 2019 and Veronica Abouchuk in 2018.