Tess Williams is a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, focusing on breaking news. Before joining the ADN in 2019, she was a reporter for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota and previously helped cover the Nebraska Legislature for The Associated Press. Contact her at twilliams@adn.com.
David Orellana, 56, is alleged to have exchanged nearly 2,000 sexually explicit messages with a Naknek teen, troopers said. He was arrested in California and is awaiting extradition to Alaska.
Josephine Link, 56, was found in a field in Tununak late Friday, troopers said.
The brown bear mauled Donald Zimmerman and then charged him again, but Zimmerman was able to use his bear spray and “that scared the bear off for good,” a Kodiak wildlife biologist said.
Todd Driskill, 57, injured one man and was later wounded by police gunfire.
Maj. Michael “Cal” Gentry, 37, based at Eielson Air Force Base, died at the scene on the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks.
James Heakin responded to a domestic violence assault in Eek in June. He returned later during the investigation and sexually assaulted the victim, troopers said.
The boy was thrown from an ATV while it flipped over Saturday evening on Eska Mine Trail near Sutton, troopers said.
On Sunday, 111 new COVID-19 cases were reported within the Municipality of Anchorage. One more person with the virus has been hospitalized, but the state did not report any new deaths.
Todd Driskill, 57, was taken to jail after the hospital released him and now faces multiple assault and weapons misconduct charges, police said.
The Bering Strait School District hadn't been aware that Lon Dean Gillas, 65, had his teaching license revoked in Oregon in 2010 for viewing explicit materials at the schools where he worked, Superintendent Robert Bolen said.
Cornelius Pettus and Deorman Stout were placed on unpaid leave after they were indicted by a grand jury this week in connection with a 2019 encounter with a bicyclist.
Yulim Kim came down the stairs to discover the cubs trapped inside while their mother was waiting for them outside.
