Alleged accomplice details deadly Anchorage home invasion and other top stories.

• Alleged accomplice details deadly Anchorage home invasion

  

  The alleged accomplice to a home invasion in South Anchorage told police he watched his partner break through the door of a home with a revolver in hand, but he claimed he didn’t know why they were there, according to a charging document filed Thursday.Timothy Lundgren said he realized his account had inconsistencies and admitted that he was “pretty much f----d,” the charges say.Lundgren, 22, and Loren Douglas, 30, planned to rob the home of drugs and money, police said. One of three juveniles i..

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• Anchorage collects $1.1 million in tax fraud restitution

  

  ANCHORAGE – A check received by Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz Thursday looked similar to ones lottery winners hold while collecting their prize money. A $1.1 million was made out to the Municipality of Anchorage — about half of what is owed by a group of business owners who schemed to defraud the municipality. In 2011, the treasury department of the city noticed a strange pattern in cigarette purchases. Large quantities of cigarettes were being purchased tax-free for sale in the Kenai Penins..

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• Police seek help in locating missing, vulnerable man

  

  UPDATE:Fairbanks police say it's not the first time Brandon Koenig-Messer has gone missing."He's a serial missing person," said Detective Scott Adams. Adams said Koenig-Messer is known to take off following domestic arguments.Koenig-Messer disappeared in July 2015, worrying family and friends who posted fliers looking for him, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.Adams said the missing man later turned up at a Fairbanks shelter. He's 33, according to court records.The News-Miner also rep..

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• Indoor football returning to Anchorage?

  

  Indoor football returning to Anchorage? By Dave Goldman 10:53 PM February 25, 2016 Alaska is the outdoor state, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for indoor football. Six years after the Alaska Wild folded, Sullivan Arena, it’s former home could be reopening its doors again. Kendalle Delanney believes there’s space and a market for his Athletic Indoor Football League, already scheduled to operate this summer in Texas and Louisiana. “I felt as commissioner, Alaska would been a grea..

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• Anchorage couple competes in cross-country reality show race

  

  Anchorage couple competes in cross-country reality show race By Daybreak Staff 4:01 PM February 25, 2016 ANCHORAGE – One Anchorage couple is competing for $25,000 on BYUtv’s new reality competition show “Relative Race.” The show features four team couples looking for unknown relatives during a 10-day race from San Francisco to New York. The show doesn’t premier until Feb. 28, but Thursday morning Janice and Patrick Wright gave Daybreak a peek at what viewers can expect. The couple said..

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Suspect in fatal South Anchorage shooting to be arraigned today .	'Alert citizen' credited with spotting missing Anchorage woman .
Anchorage jail where 24-year-old woman died operates in a state of ... .	Schools open Monday despite difficult driving conditions .