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Suspect pleads not guilty in missing barista case
FILE-- An undated file photo released by the Anchorage Police Department shows Anchorage, Alaska, barista, Samantha Koenig, 18. A federal grand jury on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 indicted Israel Keys, 34, owner of a contracting business with himself as the only employee, on charges of kidnapping resulting in death, receiving and possessing ransom money and debit card fraud in the death of Koenig. (AP Photo/Anchorage Police Dept, File)(Credit: AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 34-year-old man accused of kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old barista from an Anchorage coffee shack has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Israel Keyes entered his pleas through his lawyer in U.S. District Court on Thursday in Anchorage.
A grand jury on Wednesday indicted Keyes in the death of Samantha Koenig. Keyes pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping resulting in death, receiving and possessing ransom money and debit card fraud.
Prosecutors believe that Keyes abducted Koenig on the evening of Feb. 1 just as she was preparing to close the coffee shack for the day, and then killed her the next morning.
Koenig’s body was pulled two months later from the bottom of a frozen lake north of the city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
If convicted, Keyes could be sentenced to life in prison or death.
F-22 fighter jets retrofitted after Alaska crash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Air Force is replacing handles that engage the F-22 Raptor fighter jet’s emergency oxygen system after pilots reported feeling lightheaded and the death of a captain whose $143 million aircraft took a nosedive into a mountain range in Alaska.
Capt. Jeffrey Haney was killed in November 2010 during a night mission about 100 miles north of Anchorage. An accident investigation found that the plane’s controls and switches contributed to the crash, particularly an emergency oxygen system activation ring on the back edge of the ejection seat.
Continue Reading CloseTanker Carrying Fuel Arrives At Iced-in AK Town
This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Coast Guard Ice Breaker Healy breaking ice near the city of Nome Alaska Jan. 14, 2012. The Healy is breaking ice near Nome to assist the Russian tanker Renda move into final position for offloading nearly 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products to the city. Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel to Nome moored less than a half mile from the town's iced-in harbor Saturday evening, Jan. 14, 2012starting final preparations for delivering the diesel fuel and gasoline, the Coast Guard said. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow)(Credit: AP) NOME, Alaska (AP) — Crews worked to build a path Sunday over a half-mile of Bering Sea ice for the final leg of a Russian tanker’s mission to deliver fuel to a town isolated amid one of the most severe Alaska winters in decades.
The tanker was moored roughly a half-mile from Nome’s harbor after a Coast Guard cutter cleared a path for it through hundreds of miles of a slow journey stalled by thick ice and strong ocean currents.
The tanker got into position Saturday night, and ice disturbed by its journey had to freeze again so workers could create some sort of roadway to lay a hose that will transfer 1.3 million gallons of fuel from the tanker to the harbor in Nome.
Continue Reading CloseDrone Helping Mission To Ship Fuel To Alaska Town
In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 photo provided by the US Coast Guard, Bill Walker, with the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, prepares an Aeryon Scout unmanned aerial vehicle at the Nome causeway. Walker is using the UAV to gather aerial photos and video of daily ice conditions in preparation for the planned fuel transfer from a Russian tanker loaded with fuel for delivery to Nome. Sitnasuak Native Corporation of Nome signed a contract with Vitus Marine LLC to deliver 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products to Nome via Renda around the second week of January. If successful, this will mark the first time that petroleum products have been delivered by sea to a Western Alaskan community through ice covered waters. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen).(Credit: AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As a Russian fuel tanker slowly moves through the frozen Bering Sea toward an iced-in city in western Alaska, it has been getting help from an unusual source at its destination: a drone that flies overhead and sends images of the sea ice to researchers onshore.
The camera-equipped drone looks like a smoke detector with wings and legs. It glides on 20-minute missions ranging from 10 feet to 320 feet above the ice, and its images can be instantly viewed on a tablet-type computer screen.
Continue Reading CloseDrone Helping Mission To Ship Fuel To Alaska Town
In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 photo provided by the US Coast Guard, Bill Walker, with the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, prepares an Aeryon Scout unmanned aerial vehicle at the Nome causeway. Walker is using the UAV to gather aerial photos and video of daily ice conditions in preparation for the planned fuel transfer from a Russian tanker loaded with fuel for delivery to Nome. Sitnasuak Native Corporation of Nome signed a contract with Vitus Marine LLC to deliver 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products to Nome via Renda around the second week of January. If successful, this will mark the first time that petroleum products have been delivered by sea to a Western Alaskan community through ice covered waters. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen).(Credit: AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As a Russian fuel tanker slowly moves through the frozen Bering Sea toward an iced-in city in western Alaska, it has been getting help from an unusual source at its destination: a drone that flies overhead and sends images of the sea ice to researchers onshore.
The camera-equipped drone looks like a smoke detector with wings and legs. It glides on 20-minute missions ranging from 10 feet to 320 feet above the ice, and its images can be instantly viewed on a tablet-type computer screen.
Continue Reading CloseDrone Helping Mission To Ship Fuel To Alaska Town
In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 photo provided by the US Coast Guard, Bill Walker, with the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, prepares an Aeryon Scout unmanned aerial vehicle at the Nome causeway. Walker is using the UAV to gather aerial photos and video of daily ice conditions in preparation for the planned fuel transfer from a Russian tanker loaded with fuel for delivery to Nome. Sitnasuak Native Corporation of Nome signed a contract with Vitus Marine LLC to deliver 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products to Nome via Renda around the second week of January. If successful, this will mark the first time that petroleum products have been delivered by sea to a Western Alaskan community through ice covered waters. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen).(Credit: AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As a Russian fuel tanker slowly moves through the frozen Bering Sea toward an iced-in city in western Alaska, it has been getting help from an unusual source at its destination: a drone that flies overhead and sends images of the sea ice to researchers onshore.
The camera-equipped drone looks like a smoke detector with wings and legs. It glides on 20-minute missions ranging from 10 feet to 320 feet above the ice, and its images can be instantly viewed on a tablet-type computer screen.
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