February 7, 2023 (Yakutat, AK) – John Stapleton was sentenced to 20 years to serve yesterday for the October, 2018 murder of John Fergerson. Stapleton was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree following a three-week jury trial that concluded on …
May 23, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – This morning, an Anchorage jury convicted Steavin Martin of one count of attempted sexual assault in the first degree and one count of sexual assault in the second degree. They found him not guilty on a third count of …
May 23, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Today, an Anchorage jury convicted 37-year-old Michael Drost of murder in the second degree, manslaughter, and criminal trespass in the first degree for the murder of 61-year-old Dwayne English on Dec. 18, 2018. Anchorage …
May 23, 2023 (Bethel, AK) –Today, Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters sentenced 33-year-old Harold Gregory of Crooked Creek to 45 years with 12 years suspended and 33 years to serve for the 2019 beating death of his girlfriend, Cheryl Sakar. …
May 17, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Today, an Anchorage jury convicted 46-year-old Daniel Alex Rocero of two counts of Murder in the Second Degree, one count of Manslaughter, and one count of Tampering with Physical Evidence for the murder of 27-year-old …
May 5, 2023 (Palmer, AK) – Today, a jury found 46-year-old Duyvu Nguyen guilty of first-degree murder and second-degree murder for killing Tuan Nguyen on Oct. 30, 2017. At trial, evidence showed that Duyvu Nguyen had knowledge of an affair between Tuan …
Consumers to Receive Checks in the Mail from Multistate Settlement Without Needing to File a Claim May 4, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor today announced that Alaska consumers who were tricked by TurboTax’s owner Intuit into …
May 2, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – The plaintiffs in a lawsuit over delayed food stamp benefits and the Department of Health (“DOH”) have reached a preliminary agreement to put litigation on hold temporarily while the Division of Public Assistance continues …
May 2, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska plans to appeal a bitter ruling for the Alaska Southeast troll fishery today by a federal judge in Washington. The order by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones upheld a magistrate’s earlier opinion by …
May 1, 2023 (Fairbanks, AK) – On May 1, 2023, a Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict for murder in the first degree against Patrick Marsh, 29, for the May 12, 2019 murder of Trisha Pearson. On May 13, 2019, Alaska State Troopers responded to a report …
April 28, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Today, a Superior Court Judge ruled that additional State oil tax revenues and royalties that result from tariff reductions should not be deposited into the Constitutional Budget Reserve Fund as the Legislative Auditor …
April 27, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska filed to intervene yesterday in a lawsuit that seeks to block congressionally-directed oil and gas leasing on federal land in Cook Inlet. The State is defending the opportunity to develop through the …
April 27, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska filed an opposition Wednesday to fight for the life-saving road proposed between King Cove and the State’s all-weather airport at Cold Bay by opposing the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) motion to …
April 21, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Yesterday, an Anchorage jury returned guilty verdicts for Al Apaola Leafa Jr. for the deaths of Randy Ropati, 28, and Kikono Savo, 38, in separate shootings in Anchorage in 2020. Leafa Jr. was found guilty of two counts …
April 19, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Zachary Lee Owen was convicted Monday, April 17, 2023, on one count of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for approximately two days before returning a guilty …
April 14, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – Today Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced a serial rapist who admitted to sexually assaulting 10 women. In a plea agreement, Judge Peterson sentenced 25-year-old Jim Persey to a maximum sentence of 60 …
April 14, 2023 (Fairbanks, AK) – On April 12, 2023, a Fairbanks grand jury indicted Logan Alvin Bruce of North Pole for one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree. The charges stem from an incident which …
April 13, 2023 (Bethel, AK) – A Superior Court Judge in Bethel granted the Alaska Department of Fish & Game’s motion to dismiss Monday in Forrer v. State. The plaintiff, Eric Forrer, had alleged that the Department’s management of the Yukon and …
April 12, 2023 (Anchorage, AK) – The U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota today issued a preliminary injunction against the federal government from implementing a new rule redefining Waters of the United States, also known as WOTUS. The …
April 7, 2023 (Kenai, AK) – On March 29, 2023, Superior Court Judge Eric B. Smith sentenced David Charles Casey to a composite sentence of 30 years and 360 days. Casey’s sentence included 18 years and 180 days of suspended time with 12 years and 180 days …
