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Woman, 79, killed after dirt bike rider hit her on pedestrian path, authorities say
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - A woman has died after she was hit by a dirt bike on a paved walking path earlier this week in Alaska. Nadara Williams, 79, was walking with one of her best friends on Monday when the dirt bike hit her, Debbie Bitney, Williams’ daughter, said.
Man gets 226-year prison sentences for killing 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies” was sentenced in Anchorage Friday to 226 years in prison. Brian Steven Smith was sentenced for the deaths of Kathleen Henry in 2019 and Veronica Abouchuk, who was 52 when her family reported her missing in February 2019, seven months after they last saw her. Judge Kevin Saxby said their deaths were “the stuff of nightmares.” Authorities said Smith filmed Henry’s torture. His cellphone was later stolen. The person who found the images transferred them to a memory card and turned them over to police.
Man gets 226 years in deaths of 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies” was sentenced Friday to 226 years in prison. Brian Steven Smith received 99-year sentences each for the deaths...
OPINION: You can help make Anchorage safer from wildfires
I thank the Anchorage Daily News editorial board for sounding the alarm about Anchorage’s wildfire problem (”Sooner or later, Anchorage’s wildfire luck will run out”). The fire hazard on the Anchorage Hillside, coupled with the volume of homes and infrastructure there, constitutes one of the highest risks facing our community. Risk exposure mapping recently completed by Dr. Jen Schmidt with the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research suggests that what happened in Lahaina, Hawaii, could happen here (and nearly did in 2016) – an intense wind-driven fire advancing downhill consuming many homes and taking many lives. The risk is exacerbated by the very real possibility that state wildfire-fighting resources, which are already stretched thin, may be committed to fighting fires elsewhere in the state.
Palmer’s popular Friday Fling is back with changes made to improve traffic safety
Palmer’s Friday Fling was on again Friday, July 12, after a temporary pause due to traffic safety concerns. The popular event, the first coming in 2002, brings vendors and the public into downtown Palmer on summer Fridays for a farmers’ market featuring locally-grown foods and hand-made crafts, food from the community’s mobile chefs and music.
‘Teaming With Microbes’ podcast: The Alaska cottonwood conundrum
Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. It’s a companion to Jeff’s weekly ADN gardening columns and his popular series of books. This week, Jeff and Jonathan are dealing with the vast amounts of cottonwood...
OPINION: When humanity failed on a Midtown sidewalk
A few days ago, while turning at a busy intersection in Midtown, I saw a man dousing a woman with a garden hose while she lay unconscious on the sidewalk. My brain began to twist and I felt my face get hot. I gripped the wheel. I had to do something.
Former Alaska pastor accused of hitting wife during Anchorage-bound flight
A former Anchorage Baptist pastor who was upset that his wife was upgraded to first class, and he wasn’t, hit her during an Alaska Airlines flight last week, federal charges filed against him said. The man, 75-year-old Roger Holmberg Sr., is banned from future flights on Alaska Airlines, a...
Joe Engle, last of the X-15 test pilots who touched space, dies at 91
Joe Engle, the last surviving member of the test pilots who skimmed the edge of space on the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s and who later orbited the Earth on space-shuttle missions, died July 10 at his home in Houston. He was 91. A statement by his wife, Jeanie...
Gusty winds expected throughout Southcentral Alaska
Some areas of Anchorage could see wind gusts up to 65 mph on Friday before rain moves into the region for the weekend, meteorologists said. Southeasterly winds were expected to increase across the Anchorage Bowl starting around 2 p.m. with the strongest gusts between 4 and 10 p.m., according to a special weather statement issued by the National Weather Service.
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