ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Three members of a pro ... in September on charges of conspiring to murder U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline, who presided over a federal tax case that the Vernons lost.

The Marine Mammal Protection Act allows Alaska Natives to hunt walrus and polar bear. They can sell raw parts, such as bear hides or unworked ivory, to other Natives, such as Sternbach. But they can't sell them to non-Natives such as Lebouef. Court ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The trial of a Fairbanks militia leader continues in federal court in Anchorage with witnesses testifying about members of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia. Militia leader Schaeff...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — While in jail, awaiting sentencing for charges related to the possession of child pornography, Anchorage inmate Troy McKenzie continued to self-medicate himself with a mixture of newspaper and magazine cutouts of young children.

Associated Press= ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Schaeffer Cox carries himself with ... The FBI has wider authority to obtain warrants, and there is greater leeway in federal court.

Lawyers in Alaska try to ignite BP case ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30 (UPI ... April 30 (UPI) -- The International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, said putting budget reform ahead of economic improvement has backfired around the ...

ANCHORAGE — Prosecutors called two former members of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia to testify Wednesday in the trial of three militia members accused of conspiring to kill government employees. Ph...

In the most-watched contests, Mayor Dan Sullivan and Anchorage School District board candidate Natasha ... Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, said it was too early to comment on the official results.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Three Alaska men are scheduled to go on trial Monday in Anchorage on charges of plotting to kill government employees. Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox of Fairbanks, Coleman Barney of North Pole and Lonnie Vernon of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP ... The federal trial of Cox and two Alaska men — Coleman Barney, 37, and Lonnie Vernon, 56 — began last week and could last another month. Defense attorneys plan to argue that the government badly overstepped its authority ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP ... The federal trial of Cox and two Alaska men — Coleman Barney, 37, and Lonnie Vernon, 56 — began last week and could last another month. Defense attorneys plan to argue that the government badly overstepped its authority ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two women face possible charges after authorities ... Both women face possible misdemeanor charges, which have been sent to the Bethel district attorney's office for review. The women's names were withheld pending charges.

ANCHORAGE - The battle over rights for lesbian ... against people based on their gender identity. Tom Stenson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, says job discrimination based solely on a person’s sex is already illegal ...

Sean Parnell has named one of his aides to be the new commissioner of the Department of Labor & Workforce Development ... Advisory Board for the Municipality of Anchorage and the Alaska prisoner re-entry task force. No information about Blumer ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30 (UPI) -- Lawyers in Alaska are wrangling over the possibility ... The explosion killed 11 workers and set off a world-record, underwater oil leak that took months to stop. A similar case was dismissed in Texas ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Rock musician and conservative activist Ted Nugent pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal wildlife violation after he failed to track down and kill a black bear he wounded with bow and arrow in Alaska during filming for his reality television show three years ago. Nugent, 63, pleaded guilty by telephone in U.S. District Court in Ketchikan, Alaska to a single ...

Cook Inletkeeper, Sierra Club and Talkeetna-based Alaska Survival are petitioning the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a decision ... the railroad already extends to ports in Anchorage, Seward and Whittier. The groups issued a press release with this ...

The groups — Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club, Cook Inletkeeper and Alaska Survival — jointly filed a brief with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hoping ... another port in addition to Anchorage, Seward and Whittier, Moosey said Anchorage ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A ... issued exploration permits to Apache Alaska Corp. for high-intensity seismic exploration. "Each year, there are fewer and fewer of these whales left," Taryn Kiekow, an NRDC attorney, said in an announcement of the lawsuit.

ANCHORAGE — Prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to remove a juror Wednesday morning in a murder conspiracy trial of militia leader Schaeffer Cox and two co-defendants, after the juror told the judge s...

ANCHORAGE — Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air ... and they relied on modeling tricks to reduce the measured impact.” Earthjustice attorney Colin O’Brien said. The eight groups asked the 9th Circuit Court ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Authorities are investigating the killing ... but we have not named him as a murder suspect," Anchorage Police Lieutenant Dave Parker said. Thomas remained in jail on Thursday. According to a charging document released on ...

"First of all, our sympathies go out to Samantha's family," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis ... Volunteers fanned out across the city and other parts of Alaska with fliers emblazoned with "KIDNAPPED" across the top.

Three Alaska men are scheduled to go on trial Monday in Anchorage on charges of plotting to kill government employees.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from Sanford Wittels & Heisler ... D.C., New York, and San Francisco, specializes in employment discrimination, wage and hour, qui tam and consumer actions and complex corporate ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Three Alaska men are scheduled to go on trial Monday in Anchorage on charges of plotting to kill government employees. Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox of Fairbanks, Coleman Barney of North Pole and Lonnie Vernon ...

Ronald O'Neil and Tracy Simpson, both from the Southeast Alaska community of Port Protection ... by the state but found O'Neil guilty of reckless manslaughter. His lawyer, Dianne Thoben, says she is concerned the jurors found her client guilty ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska state Senate adjourned from special ... Hollis French, D-Anchorage, the Legislature's top attorney, Doug Gardner, found that if a bill was on the agenda for the special session and then removed, that action, in effect ...

A plea agreement with federal prosecutors ... in Tuesday's U.S. District Court proceeding in the southeast Alaska town of Ketchikan, his lawyer said. Nugent didn't know he was breaking the law, said his Anchorage attorney, Wayne Anthony Ross.

PALMER -- Citing a violation of a defendant's constitutional rights at trial, an Alaska appellate court has overturned the criminal conviction of a man accused of rape twice in the Valley, twice in Anchorage and once in Glennallen.

The Justice Department has cut a deal with a former member of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia to bolster its case against the group’s leader Schaeffer Cox and two others on trial in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. Michael O. Anderson, who was ...

Riley was sentenced in federal court to 27 years in prison for possession of cocaine with an intent to distribute. Riley, a resident of Kansas City, Mo., was arrested in 2009 after a short stakeout of his Anchorage post-office box provided law enforcement ...

Amy Coopman, Bashir's lawyer, said attorney fees will be ... She is going through a divorce, and in October she and her daughter moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she works as an apartment manager. "I have mixed feelings," Bashir said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Three members of a pro-gun ... are due to go on trial in September on charges of conspiring to murder U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline, who presided over a federal tax case that the Vernons lost.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Three members of a pro-gun Alaska militia plotted to kidnap or kill two law enforcement officers for ... but to defend." Vernon's attorney, a federal public defender, portrayed her client as an unsophisticated ...

A Kansas City man who federal prosecutors in Alaska called a "prolific cocaine trafficker" will spend 27 years behind bars, according to his sentence handed down Monday in Anchorage.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Among the items that remained after a barista's abduction from an Anchorage coffee stand were two partially ... Handcuffed and wearing jail garb, he appeared for Thursday's arraignment before a packed courtroom where ...

ANCHORAGE — Jurors in the trial of three members of the Fairbanks-based Alaska Peacemakers Militia saw evidence Monday that was seized from a fourth member of the militia who was searched but not c...

Jury selection got underway in Anchorage federal court Monday in preparation for the trial of Fairbanks resident and Alaska Peacemaker’s militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox. Cox is charged along with Coleman Barney and Lonnie Vernon of plotting to kill government employees. Cox founded the Second Amendment Task force and claims he is a sovereign citizen. The trial is expected to last at least a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (WTW) — Three Fairbanks-area militia members were portrayed by federal ... assistant Lamoureux told the U.S. District Court jury in Anchorage after detailing weapons seized when the men were arrested in March 2011.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- With his Boy Scout good looks and schoolboy cap, Schaeffer Cox was known for striding happily through the treacherous backwater between rabble rousing and revolution. In university auditoriums and community meeting halls ...