Anchorage man indicted on attempted murder, assault charges and other top stories.

• Anchorage man indicted on attempted murder, assault charges

  

  Estimated read time 1m 38s Anchorage man indicted on attempted murder, assault charges By KTVA CBS 11 News 4:51 PM April 10, 2017 ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage grand jury approved an indictment for attempted murder and assault against 24-year-old Kevin Dyer, who is accused of stabbing someone staying at his home in early February. The case stems from two reported stabbings during the early morning hours of Feb. 6. During the course of their investigation, police discovered the two cases w..

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• The Anchorage Assembly meets Tuesday. Here are a few things to ...

  

  It's also the last full meeting for four Assembly members, who are departing over term limits or because they chose not to run again in last week's election: Chair and Midtown representative Elvi Gray-Jackson, downtown's Patrick Flynn, Chugiak-Eagle River's Bill Starr and South Anchorage's Bill Evans. At the meeting of April 18, the four new Assembly members who won their seats will be sworn in.

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• Anchorage FBI, DOJ announce effort to disrupt Kelihos botnet ...

  

  ANCHORAGE – The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday a joint-agency attack effort against a botnet known as Kelihos, which investigators say infected tens of thousands of computers, including some in Alaska. According to a statement from the DOJ, the investigation– led by FBI’s Anchorage Office and New Haven Office, as well as Alaska’s U.S. Attorneys– uncovered between 25,000 and 100,000 computers with Kelihos malware that was nearly undetectable and thus difficult to remove. Anchorage ..

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• Standoff suspect's body believed discovered near Beluga Point

  

  Crime & Courts Standoff suspect's body believed discovered near Beluga Point Author: Alaska Dispatch News Updated: 7 hours ago Published 13 hours ago Officials recover a body from the Beluga Point area on Turnagain Arm on Monday, April 10, 2017. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)

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• East High student ID'd as victim in Friday's Mountain View shooting

  

  Estimated read time 2m 3s East High student ID’d as victim in Friday’s Mountain View shooting By KTVA CBS 11 News 2:01 PM April 10, 2017 Last updated at 10:12 p.m. on Monday, April 10 Family members say 17-year-old Leroy Lawrence was killed in a shooting last week in Mountain View. While Anchorage Police have Leroy’s death, East High School’s principal says Leroy’s family reached out to the school to let them know Leroy, a student at the school, passed away. Tonight at 10: Community..

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• Changes at Anchorage operation won't hurt rural utilities, AEA says

  Rural utility operators are worried changes to how the Alaska Energy Authority handles their powerhouse projects will hurt the reliability of electrical service in communities across the state, but AEA officials say the fears are the result of a simple misunderstanding. The usually quiet public testimony portion of the authority’s March 30 board of directors meeting was dominated by utility managers and local government administrators from small bush communities pleading with AEA directors to no..

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• North Anchorage parents push for stricter curfew enforcement

  

  Estimated read time 1m 51s North Anchorage parents push for stricter curfew enforcement By Shannon Ballard 6:25 PM April 10, 2017 ANCHORAGE – A group of Anchorage parents says too many young people are dying in the streets. On Monday, they asked the Mountain View Community Council to help them do something about it, starting with better enforcement of the municipality’s curfew for minors. There’s nothing new about the Anchorage law. It’s been in place since 1996, but the problem, acc..

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• Man wounded, suspects at large in Spenard shooting

  

  Officers responded at 4:45 a.m. to the 3900 block of Barbara Street, Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Renee Oistad said, where they found the victim kneeling in the street with gunshot wounds to his knee and torso. The victim told police that he had been on foot when a dark-colored sedan pulled up beside him.

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• Man seriously injured in hammer attack

  

  Man seriously injured in hammer attack By KTVA Web Staff 1:32 PM April 10, 2017 Anchorage Police are investigating an assault with a hammer that occurred early Monday morning near downtown. Police were called to the 800 block of Karluk Street around 2:30 Monday morning on reports of someone bleeding from the head. Officers found that several people were involved in a verbal altercation which escalated into physical violence; one man grabbed a hammer and struck another man in the head, ..

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• A statehood founder awaits the outcome of 'the Alaska experiment'

  

  Opinions A statehood founder awaits the outcome of 'the Alaska experiment' Vic Fischer, a statehood founder and delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, explains state finances March 21, 2017, in Anchorage. (Charles Wohlforth / ADN)

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