Patrick Gilchrist

5 days ago | fm.kuac.org | Patrick Gilchrist

Guilty on all counts – that’s the jury’s verdict in the case of two Nenana women charged with first-degree theft and scheme to defraud. Nenana Senior Center Director Vickie Moyle, 67, and her daughter, Annie Williams, 48, were accused of scamming their 74-year-old friend in a 2019 real estate deal, and Friday’s decision marks the second time a jury has found the women guilty. The verdict from a 2022 trial in Fairbanks got tossed because some of the testimony had broken rules of evidence.

6 days ago | fm.kuac.org | Patrick Gilchrist

The North Pole City Council chose two new members to fill vacant seats Monday after lightning round interviews with the seven applicants. The addition of the new members mean North Pole voters have elected only half of the current city council through a typical election. Two members, Chandra Clack and Ellen Glab, announced their resignations back-to-back in recent months for unrelated reasons, leaving the pair of empty seats that the council filled this week.

6 days ago | alaskapublic.org | Patrick Gilchrist

A Fort Wainwright soldier is charged with fatally shooting a man in a Fairbanks apartment last week. Adayus Robertson, 24, faces charges of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and violating conditions of release in the death of Joseph Casas, 37. According to a charging document against Robertson, Fairbanks police found Casas with a gunshot wound to the head at about 10 a.m. on April 11, after someone reported shots fired at an apartment on 27th Avenue.

1 week ago | fm.kuac.org | Patrick Gilchrist

Attorneys delivered opening statements Tuesday in the second trial for two Nenana women accused of conning their elderly friend into a bad real estate deal in September 2019. A Nenana jury will decide whether Vickie Moyle,67, and her daughter, Annie Williams, 48, are guilty of felony first-degree theft and scheme to defraud. The case centers around the home of then-74-year-old Mae Jensen, and the way the parties agreed it would change hands.

1 week ago | fm.kuac.org | Patrick Gilchrist

Retrial begins in case involving a real estate deal gone wrong in Nenana. Trump administration revoked visas for four students affiliated with the University of Alaska. NORAD intercepts six Russian aircraft in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone. Fort Greely is saying so long to scrap material from old nuclear power plant.