Michelle Theriault Boots is a reporter who covers news and features about life in Alaska, and has been focusing on corrections and psychiatric care issues in the state. Contact her at mtheriault@adn.com.
The search for Jessica Baggen's killer was cold until the emerging forensic technique of genetic genealogy led investigators to former Sitka resident Steve Branch.
State prosecutors have ruled all of the dozens of killings by police and troopers since 2015 to be justifiable homicide.
First of two parts: The Daily News set out to learn about fatal encounters between citizens and police in Alaska after learning no official statewide data existed.
Dentists “falsified health records by attributing one dentist as the provider of routine dental exams when that dentist did not actually perform the procedures," the organization said.
The route roughly connects the Coastal, Ship Creek, Campbell Creek and Chester Creek trails in the shape of what can — with some squinting — be seen as the outline of a moose.
The case is the first publicly linked to Alaska’s sole inpatient psychiatric hospital.
The inmate was tested as part of a new effort to screen every inmate entering Alaska’s jails and prison system for the virus as cases spike in the state.
An outdoor installation at the Anchorage Museum will feature 27 sexual violence survivors who chose to tell their stories publicly. "Without the stories, there is silence," the museum's director says.
What followed was a fraught, at times bizarre, exchange that quickly landed on the internet.
Joshua Sonkiss faces one misdemeanor charge of assault stemming from the incident, which took place in a Fred Meyer.
Everything Mary Savage did in the hours after the attack was dissected on the witness stand, an experience so upsetting she vomited. But years later, she finds comfort knowing her testimony led to his conviction.
“I’m not going anywhere.” Marie Sakar tried to treat her trauma with alcohol until she learned that silence only serves to protect those who hurt her. Now, she’s back, sober and teaching in her hometown.
