The Anchorage Police Department announced its new targeted crime plan Thursday. It focuses on getting into the community and developing relationships. The department will expand its foot patrols beyond downtown and into Mountain View, Fairview and Spenard.
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Partying on a Tuesday night, first responders hang out with the community
Throughout the two-hour event families chatted with law enforcement and safety officials, kids took photos, learned how to find fingerprints on a soda can and checked out the police cars.
Man electrocuted when truck boom touches overhead wires
Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Anita Shell said that Donald Emmert, 57, died as he worked on a well in Eagle River.
Two dead in separate shootings in Anchorage during the weekend
Two teenagers were killed over the weekend in separate shooting incidents in Anchorage.
Man dead in apparent early-morning homicide in Anchorage
A man was found dead in an apparent homicide early Friday morning on Anchorage’s east side.
Walker addresses Anchorage’s local budgeting woes
Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz said the effects of legislators’ inaction on the municipality was as them basically saying, “Here, it’s your problem.”
How David Holthouse decided to name the ‘Bogeyman’
When David Holthouse retold his story of being raped as a child for lawmakers in February, he had no idea it would set off a chain of events that would lead to filing a police report and publicly naming his rapist in the Anchorage Press last week.
Mallott campaign computer stolen
A laptop computer with donors’ financial information has been stolen from the Anchorage office of the Byron Mallott gubernatorial campaign
Badly beaten Anchorage teen identified
Police have released the name of a young man who was found beaten unconscious in an abandoned building in Downtown Anchorage Monday night.
APD alleges man pointed gun before second deadly shooting of 2013
Anchorage Police Department officials say the man shot and killed by officers in a downtown supermarket parking lot Friday night had a semi-automatic handgun.