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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 Friday to 226 years in prison. Brian Steven Smith received 99-year sentences each for the...
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...
‘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...
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.
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.
Former city treasurer in Alaska sentenced to prison for wire fraud, money laundering, tax evasion
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Alaska man was sentenced Tuesday to two and half years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the City of Houston, Alaska, and from a Wasilla-based equipment company, and then evading taxes on the embezzled profits. According to court documents and statements made...
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...
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