An inmate is facing additional charges of assault and harassment after she has been accused of attacking a correctional officer at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau.
KTVA-TV reports that Alaska State Troopers were notified of the incident on Friday. They reported the assault in an online dispatch.
The officer was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital.
The investigation into the assault is ongoing.
Hundreds of people rallied in Midtown Anchorage in the wake of two black men fatally shot by officers in Louisiana and Minnesota and the deadly ambush on officers in Dallas, Texas.
People lined streets and gathered in the parking lot of the Mall at Sears during the Friday night demonstration organized by Annalisha Jacobs. The Alaska News Dispatch reports that Jacobs told the crowd she was troubled by the shootings and wanted to do something to bring people together as a show of unity.
People held signs saying “Black Lives Matter,” and “Spread Love Not Hate” and cheered as drivers passing by honked horns.
Other speakers included Anchorage Police Department Chief Christopher Tolley, who encouraged peace and understanding.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks and state officials are seeking public input on new guidelines for how coastal communities should respond to tsunamis.
The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports that new modeling shows the potential for extreme currents and flooding if a large tsunami were to hit Alaska’s coastal communities.
UAF researchers and representatives from the National Weather Service, Tsunami Warning Center and Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management discussed the new information during a meeting in the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center.
The draft guidelines suggest different plans of action for tsunamis caused by earthquakes off the Alaska Peninsula and ones caused by shifts in more distant locations. Both plans suggest people head to high ground if a tsunami is imminent.
The southeastern Alaska city of Saxman has been awarded a $60,000 grant to replace the roof of its clan house.
The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development program in Alaska announced the Saxman grant Thursday.
The clan house sits on the top of a hill that forms Saxman’s totem park and is the largest of its kind of Revillagigedo Island. Saxman officials say the tribal house roof is 25 years old and primarily made of cedar shakes.
A $26,250 federal grant to the Organized Village of Kasaan was also announced on Thursday and will go to the village’s sewer system. Teller, near Nome, and the Kenai Peninsula community of Port Graham also received equal grants for water projects.
Federal prosecutors say a 36-year-old Fort Wainwright soldier has pleaded guilty to receiving bribes in a plot to steal fuel at a base in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Sheldon Morgan entered the guilty plea in Fairbanks on Friday to a count of conspiring to receive bribes. The Army says Morgan was assigned to Kentucky-based Fort Campbell at the time he was deployed at the Forward Operating Base Fenty between May 2010 and May 2011.
His sentencing is scheduled for October.
Prosecutors say Morgan was an Army specialist when he arranged for an Afghan trucking company translator to steal 5,000 gallons of fuel on two occasions in December 2010. According to prosecutors, the translator promised Morgan $5,000 for each truckload.
Prosecutors say the money was wired to an account outside the U.S. that was opened by Morgan’s wife.
Prosecutors say it’s the eighth guilty plea for similar plots at Fenty between June 2009 and April 2012.
A federal accident report sheds new light after the publisher of Alaska’s largest newspaper crashed her airplane in an aborted landing last weekend.
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Friday says Alaska Dispatch News publisher Alice Rogoff was able to free herself from her partially submerged and sinking airplane after it dove nose-first into the waters in Halibut Cove after clipping a stand of trees.
Rescuers reached the 64-year-old Rogoff within moments of the July 3 accident. She walked away uninjured.
Preliminary reports are factual in nature and draw no conclusions as to the cause of a crash. A final report is expected in about four months.
Rogoff has not spoken with NTSB investigators about the crash, and isn’t required to do so. She must, however, file a written report within 10 days of the crash.
Friday’s preliminary report says the aborted landing came on calm, glassy water in Halibut Cove. Cole says glassy water landings are a challenge for any seaplane pilot.
Rogoff’s attorney, Brent Cole, tells The Associated Press that Rogoff is doing fine and that the crash landing in Halibut Cove would have been a traumatic event for anyone, and she’s no different.
