Yerkes, formerly of Juneau, agreed to plead guilty to a single count of second-degree murder and take a sentence of 60 years in prison with 15 suspended, for a total of 45 years.
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Local News Reporter, KTOO
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EMS and law enforcement train for active shooter at Capitol on Thursday
“You probably won’t be seeing anything on the outside, other than lots of vehicles,” said Joe Mishler, the EMS training officer for Capital City Fire/Rescue.
Avrum Gross: Gov. Hammond’s ‘long-haired hippie’ ally, attorney general and in-house antagonist
Avrum Gross died in May 2018. The East Coast Democrat and lawyer was an unlikely ally of Republican Gov. Jay Hammond. He served as Alaska’s attorney general during the permanent fund’s seminal years.
Forest Service fighting 56-acre fire at Berners Bay
The fire doesn’t pose a significant threat, but it is unusually large for the rainforest and Southeast Alaska.
Egan: ‘We can’t keep kicking the can down the road’
Free of re-election concerns, the outgoing state senator waded into two major policy issues that have been making knees jerk for years: the Alaska Permanent Fund and a state income tax.
Juneau Senate candidate Larry Cotter drops out
Cotter said he doesn’t plan to endorse anyone else in the race. His withdrawal leaves Democrat Jesse Kiehl and nonpartisan Don Etheridge vying for the Senate District Q seat.
Gas thief strikes kids’ summer camp van, frustrates Harris Street neighborhood
Juneau Police Lt. Krag Campbell said gas thefts are an ongoing issue around Juneau. The typical telltale sign is a damaged fuel door, though, not a tank drilled out from underneath the vehicle.
Newscast – Thursday, May 17, 2018
In this newscast: Juneau Assemblyman and longtime legislative aide Jesse Kiehl announces he’s running for state Senate, a backlog of applications for state marijuana business licenses is piling up, and the Outer Coast College in Sitka secures its inaugural summer seminar class.
Rep. Kito booted from Legislative Council
In his tweets, Kito said he was ousted for “speaking truth to power” and suggested the Senate may have had a role.
Newscast – Tuesday, May 15, 2018
In this newscast: Juneau schools get funded for the 2018-2019 school year, Rep. Sam Kito III says he’s been booted off the Legislative Council, and a Juneau woman is killed in a vehicle-pedestrian collision by Brotherhood Bridge.