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Alaska State Troopers responded to the village Monday, after the 7-year-old boy had been missing for two days.
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According to a trooper dispatch, the body of 21-year-old Henry Penn Jr. of Noatak was found a mile downriver from the community on June 26.
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According to court documents, on Sunday 45-year-old Clarence Snyder Jr. threatened his wife and children with a pistol. One of Snyder’s children allegedly told troopers that Snyder fired the pistol twice in his wife’s direction while she was lying on the floor crying and that both parents were intoxicated at the time.
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According to court documents, a witness saw 62-year-old Lowell Sage Jr. pull out a gun and shoot the victim, after teasing between the two men escalated.
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The passenger plane that crashed near Nome last month, killing all 10 people on board, was hundreds of pounds overweight, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Court documents show Alaska State Troopers received an anonymous tip on March 12 that 23-year-old Spencer Pungalik and another man from Noorvik planned to transport the airfreighted alcohol from Kotzebue’s airport to Selawik.
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On Friday, the City of Kotzebue issued a health advisory for manganese levels in the community’s drinking water.
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40-year-old John Booth left Noatak around 3pm on Friday and was reported overdue the next day.
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But in statements, Patkotak’s office said there was “a critical lapse in judgment,” that challenging terrain and weather conditions required use of the ATV, and that the supervising officer had been “released from employment.” Three other supervising officers had also been placed on leave.
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Troopers say 36-year-old Georgia Onalik was operating the vehicle with an male passenger when it crashed on Willow Street.