Daniel Batalona awaits sentencing in June.
Crime & Courts
Donated gun safes used to reduce risk of accidental shootings and suicides
Preventive health care researchers say nearly two-thirds of western Alaska households that were given a lockable gun cabinet or safe were still using them to store their firearms and ammunition about a year later.
Alaska Supreme Court may hear insurance case stemming from Juneau shooting
Aiden Neary was killed and Chase Schneider was injured during the December 2008 incident.
Brother of accidental shooting victim sentenced to probation
Seth Bingham consents to a plea and sentence agreement with prosecutors for seriously injuring Joe Bingham.
Suspicious powder found in school district mail
Juneau School District offices were evacuated early Wednesday afternoon after an employee opened an envelope containing a suspicious white powder.
Coast Guard aviator’s attorney talks about the dismissal of charges, defense in case
John Smith says Lt. Lance Leone still has a future as a helo pilot.
Elections division turns aside Obama nomination challenge
Juneau man contends that the president does not have the right to run for federal office because of his race. Elections officials say they don’t have jurisidiction.
Attorneys, judges apply for seat on Alaska Supreme Court
Fourteen Alaskan attorneys are vying to replace Morgan Christen on the Alaska Supreme Court.
Yakutat cold-case murder suspect arraigned
Robert Kowalski is accused of killing Sandra Perry at Yakutat’s Glacier Bear Lodge in 1996.
Appellate court says sentence is not excessive in Juneau kidnapping, sexual assault case
Christopher Allen Scholes was sentenced to serve forty years.