Alaska State Troopers

Troopers say several occupants of the home were able to escape, but that 78-year-old Xenia Black did not survive the blaze in the late evening hours of Nov. 27.

In early November, 47-year-old Pius Teeluk was sentenced in Bethel court to 20 years in prison with 6 years suspended after pleading guilty to one count of manslaughter for the death of his girlfriend, Marie Unok.

According to Alaska State Troopers, 16-year-old Kennedy Teganlakla had been attempting to hydroplane the snowmachine over open water – known as skipping – when the accident occurred.

Stephanie Agathluk, 49, has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of Michael Andrews Jr., 54, in Emmonak in April. Another man faces multiple felony charges for allegedly helping Agathluk to cover up the death.

Kasigluk resident Adrianna Tinker, 33, died after a boat she was in struck a submerged object in the Napakiak Slough on Sept. 16. The boat's operator survived uninjured, according to Alaska State Troopers.

No injuries have been reported after schools in Kasigluk and the community of Quinhagak locked down in separate gun calls last week. Suspects in both cases have been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening.

The analysis, published Aug. 1, means that the Alaska State Troopers and most other law enforcement agencies will keep their policing policies the same as they have in recent years.

According to Alaska State Troopers, 49-year-old Nicholas Tucker Jr. shot the minor following an altercation with his son in the early morning hours of July 1. The girl lost her arm in the incident.

Twenty-six-year-old Fredrick Abraham pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide after initially being charged with second-degree murder in the death of 30-year-old Joan Camille in March 2024 near the lower Yukon River community.

Fifty-seven-year-old Leonard Olrun has been convicted of sexually abusing three children aged 13 to 14 in Mekoryuk in 2020 and 2021.