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Two News-Miner employees caught in shooting crossfire
FAIRBANKS — Two women were fired upon in a truck as gunshots were heard throughout a neighborhood near Illinois Street early Saturday. No one was hurt, but Fairbanks Police Sgt. Eric Jewkes said...
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Sides settle tariff fight
JUNEAU — A fight about 2008 oil pipeline charges has ended with a settlement that will send millions to the state and smaller oil companies. The two sides — owners of the trans-Alaska on one si...
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Fairbanks school district looks at bigger class size, job cuts
FAIRBANKS — School counselors would be cut and high school class sizes would grow under a 2010-2011 budget proposal before the school board this week. The $240 million spending plan adds classro...
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Sean M. Jeffers, 24, appears for arraignment via video teleconference Saturday afternoon, March 20, 2010, from Fairbanks Correctional Center. Jeffers faces a charge of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing 20-year-old Bryan Richardson on Tuesday night in the parking lot of Ivory Jack’s bar and grill. John Wagner/News-Miner Murder suspect surrenders to police
FAIRBANKS — A murder suspect on the run for three days surrendered to authorities Friday night. Court documents allege that Sean M. Jeffers, 24, shot and killed 20-year-old Bryan Richardson on T...
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Plea deal reached in Fairbanks burglary, theft spree
FAIRBANKS – A Fairbanks man who participated in a burglary and theft spree late last year will have his conviction set aside in two years if he stays out of trouble with the law. Marshall Chafee...
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Sexual assault lands man five years in treatment
FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man implicated in a rash of burglaries and a sexual assault will spend the next five years in a treatment center for sex offenders. Gilbert J. Nashookpuk, 20, pleaded gui...
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Looking back in Fairbanks - March 21
10 YEARS AGO March 21, 2000 — Fairbanks gym-goers say a bill awaiting the governor’s signature allowing fitness clubs to segregate man and women would stifle the equal rights movement. “It see...
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Final Interior musher finishes the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
NOME — The final Interior musher of the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has crossed the finish line. Dave DeCaro, 27, of Denali Park, finished the Iditarod at 12:19 p.m. Saturday in 51st...
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Schaeffer Cox barred from carrying gun
FAIRBANKS – The leader of the local Second Amendment Task Force has been barred from possessing a gun for at least the next two months. Schaeffer Cox, 26, was arrested Wednesday night after Fair...
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West Valley High School foreign exchange students Cristal Linarez, left, and Own Saipia, right, both 17, work their way through an ice labyrinth as people continue to enjoy the Ice Alaska Ice Park off of Phillips Field Road during the BP World Ice Art Championships Friday, March 19, 2010. "It s so bright," Saipia, from Thailand, said of her first winter experience. "It was amazing," she added about the ice park and ice carvings. It was Linarez s second time visiting Fairbanks in the winter, but teh Dominican Republic native was still in awe. "In my country it is summer all the time," she added. Ice Alaska has a little more time on its river front land while the borough tries to works out a deal its landlord, the Alaska Railroad Corp. An April 1 deadline to pay tens of thousands of dollars in back rent will be extended by a month or two, railroad Vice-President Jim Kubitz said. The borough and the railroad are haggling about the terms of a long-term lease even as the railroad continues to press for Ice Alaska to move to Pioneer Park. The park is open through Sunday, March 28th. Eric Engman/News-Miner Groups work to keep Ice Alaska from melting away
FAIRBANKS — Ice Alaska’s future remains on thin ice. The ice sculpting benefactor rents land from the state-owned Alaska Railroad Corp. and is faced with a steep rent increase. Ice Alaska Chair...
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Delta man to be brought back after fleeing state
FAIRBANKS – A Delta Junction man charged with attempted murder who fled to Canada and then the Lower 48 will be heading back Alaska in the next few weeks. James Lyle Mead, 44, sought asylum in C...
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Plan to cap state spending advances
JUNEAU — The House Finance Committee on Friday quietly advanced a proposed cap on annual state spending. The legislative session could be too far along for the measure, from Rep. Mike Kelly, R-F...
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Sean Jeffers Suspect in Goldstream shooting turns himself in to authorities
FAIRBANKS – A murder suspect on the run for three days surrendered Friday night. Court documents allege that Sean M. Jeffers, 24, fatally shot 20-year-old Bryan Richardson on Tuesday night...
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Army Ranger from Fairbanks dies of wounds sustained in Afghanistan
FAIRBANKS – An Army Ranger who was born and raised in Fairbanks has died of injuries he sustained last week while serving in Afghanistan. Special Forces Army Ranger Joel D. Clarkson, 23, w...
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Alaska’s old guard urges in-state gas
JUNEAU — Heavy-hitters including former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens told a state Senate panel Thursday to help finance a proposed in-state natural gas pipeline, providing another sign of shifting mome...
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