Shooter in Fairbanks drug raid sentenced to prison
FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man is serving 3 1/2 years in prison for shooting at police during a drug bust last year. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Dontaveon Ervin Green, 28, pleaded...
Fairbanks health officials encourage swine flu vaccinations
FAIRBANKS — Local health officials recommend that parents consider getting their child vaccinated for the swine flu virus to help prevent the spread of the pandemic as the flu season nears. “It ...
Remote Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu
ANCHORAGE , Alaska – Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island – prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help. “Diom...
Alaska State Troopers and Fairbanks police officers respond to South Peger Road on Friday evening, Nov. 6, 2009, after two men were taken into custody for shooting and and attempting to run over an Alaska State Trooper. John Wagner/News-Miner
FAIRBANKS — An Alaska State Trooper shot and wounded a man during a traffic stop Friday night in an exchange of gunfire in South Fairbanks. Shots were fired at the trooper about 8:30 p.m. Friday a...
•About 150 people attended the fundraiser Thursday at Kodiak Jack's for one of our soldiers who was critically injured in a helicopter crash in Iraq. The spaghetti feed and donations to a bank account now total about $5,300 for the family of Sgt. Tony Senecal, who has been hospi...
• Jon Cook of Fairbanks, chief financial officer of Airport Equipment Rentals, has been named to the board of the Alaska Railroad by Gov. Sean Parnell. One of the big local issues to be dealt with by the railroad soon is whether the railroad will allow new at-grade cro...
• Sgt. Tony Senecal, who was injured in a helicopter crash in Iraq in September, is facing a long road to recovery. Because of the financial uncertainties the Senecal family is facing, one of their friends in Fairbanks, Katie Ragsdale, has organized a fundrais...
The movie "The Fourth Kind" about alien abductions in Nome, Alaska, (but filmed, oddly enough, in Bulgaria) opens this weekend. Have you ever been abducted by aliens?