NIKISKI, Alaska — A Kenai teenager was flown to Anchorage with serious injuries after a crash Thursday morning on the Kenai Spur Highway near Nikiski.
Alaska State Troopers say 19-year-old Kiana Edgmon drove south, crossed the centerline near Mile 17 and overcorrected.
The truck slid into the ditch along the southbound lane, rolled and pinned Edgmon beneath it.
Medics lifted the truck and extricated Edgmon.
She was flown to an Anchorage hospital by a LifeMed helicopter.
GLENNALLEN — A 55-year-old passenger riding in a sport utility vehicle died Tuesday night in a one-vehicle crash on a remote interior Alaska road.
Helen West of Slana died as she was being transported to a hospital after the crash.
Alaska State Troopers say West was a passenger in an SUV driven by 29-year-old Vanessa Murphy of Slana on Nabesna Road about five miles south of the Tok Cutoff.
Murphy was driving east when she lost control.
The SUV entered the ditch and rolled, ejecting Murphy and West.
Slana emergency responders transported both women.
Troopers say Murphy died on her way to the Gulkana Airport, where a LifeMed aircraft was waiting to transport her to a hospital.
ANCHORAGE — A home invasion robbery left an Anchorage man injured early Wednesday.
A man just before 3 a.m. sought treatment at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Anchorage police said.
He told medical personnel he had been robbed at his home on east 12th Avenue.
Hospital staff called police, who went to the home a few blocks south of Debarr Road and east of Boniface Parkway.
Police found a large marijuana grow inside the home.
Police say they it was apparent intruders had forced their way in.
Electronics and other items were taken.
Police are seeking tips on the incident from the public.
ANCHORAGE — The FBI is looking for a man who wore a fake beard to rob a bank Tuesday in Anchorage.
A spokeswoman in a release says the man just before 2 p.m. walked into the First National Bank on Gambell Street east of Sullivan Arena.
He handed a note to a teller that demanded cash.
He walked out with cash and fled on a bicycle.
Images taken inside the bank show the man with a bushy, fake, brown beard that covered his mouth and descended to his chest.
He also wore a dark, hooded sweat shirt, faded blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
Underneath the sweat shirt hood, he wore a red or orange baseball cap.
The FBI says the man was about 5-foot-7 and about 170 pounds.
PILOT STATION — The body of a Pitka’s Point moose hunter has been recovered from the Yukon River near Pilot Station.
Alaska State Troopers say Thaddeus Riley, 25, drowned Monday.
Riley and two other Pitka’s Point men, Derek Sipary, 20, and Noel Tinker, 25, were on a hunting trip when their boat hit a submerged log.
All three were ejected from the boat. Sipary and Tinker swam to shore.
Riley started swimming toward his boat but went under in the current and did not surface, Troopers said.
Searchers found Sipary and Tinker and transported them to Pitka’s Point.
Searchers transported Riley’s body to Pilot Station and then by aircraft to Pitka’s Point.
Troopers say the men were not wearing life jackets.
This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was actually giving them elk.
The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the state for mislabeling the meat.
The parent company of the restaurant agreed to pay the criminal fine, donate $10,532 to three non-profit food groups and publically apologize.
Restaurant co-owner Vivian Bubbel said an advertisement with the apology ran Saturday in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
The restaurant would have no additional comment, she said.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation investigated.
An employee reported the restaurant had not served reindeer in the years he worked there and the restaurant manager confirmed the use of elk.
The menu described reindeer tenderloin as “similar to caribou and raised in Western Alaska where they are harvested by the Native people.”
The meat actually came from elk in New Zealand.
