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Community members who reported hearing gunfire on July 25 banded together to put out the blaze, but troopers have not yet said whether the remains are those of the alleged shooter.
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BPD Chief James Harris said that no foul play is suspected in the death of a 3-year-old girl, and that names are not being released out of respect for family members.
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Multiple residents have reported receiving calls from an individual who calls themselves “Deputy Chris.” The Bethel scam appears to be part of a pattern of other police impersonation scams throughout Alaska.
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James Harris comes to Alaska from New Mexico. He has 32 years of experience in law enforcement. Before taking the job in Bethel, Harris served as police chief in Belen, New Mexico, beginning in 2019.
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The state says the suspect, who is a Filipino citizen, “is likely to leave Alaska and return to his home country soon.”
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Samantha Norman recently fell victim to a phone scam that police say is becoming increasingly sophisticated.
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The Kuskokwim River community of Akiak has been largely without power for more than two weeks. The outage appears to be part of a broader issue with the town’s generators and has resulted in significant food loss and financial hardship for residents.
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A malfunction of a fire-suppression system at the Alaska Army National Guard hangar in Bethel released a small amount of firefighting foam containing cancer-linked PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” on June 25, according to the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
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High winds caused a small fire at the landfill in Quinhagak to quickly spread to the nearby tundra earlier this week, threatening the community and coming within feet of an active archaeological dig.
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Bethel’s regional hospital and other Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation facilities were under lockdown for around an hour on June 24 after an unidentified man showed what appeared to be a firearm and made a verbal threat at a hospital facility.
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Bethel’s first responders say an initial investigation into the June 14 fire found that the fire may have started accidentally, possibly from a lit cigarette.
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The Bureau of Land Management says it hasn’t determined the cause of the roughly 800-acre surface blaze north of the lower Yukon River community of Marshall.