Photo archive for January 23, 2008
On Tuesday near Mile 352 of the Richardson Highway, slick roads led to an accident involving a trooper patrol car operated by Trooper Michael Wery. According to a trooper release, Wery’s vehicle was parked partially in the right-hand lane to direct traffic around a tow truck that was pulling a vehicle out of the ditch. Michael J. Rice, 46, driving a 2001 Ford Escape, slowed as he approached Wery’s vehicle, but began to skid on the slick road and spun nearly 180 degrees before striking the left rear corner of the patrol car, the release stated. Rice’s car continued to spin and struck again near the driver’s door of the patrol car. Wery, who was wearing a seatbelt, sustained a slight cut and was treated and released at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Rice, of Eielson Air Force Base, was taken to Bassett Army Hospital with what the release said appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. A passenger in Rice’s vehicle was uninjured. Rice and his passenger were both wearing seatbelts. Rice was issued a citation for basic speed. The unseasonable warm weather in Fairbanks is about to take a drastic turn as temperatures are expected to go from Tuesday’s above freezing temperatures to temps in the 30 below range by tonight.
Members of the Hazardous Materials team, wearing protective suits and oxygen tanks, enter the building as they prepare to clear out a methamphetamine lab from a basement apartment at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Bonnifield Street Tuesday afternoon.
North Pole senior Todd McCormick, right, steals the ball from West Valley sophomore Jonathan Sniegowski in the first quarter of their Mid Alaska Conference game Tuesday in North Pole.
A member of the Hazardous Materials team lines out some of the items and ingredients used in cooking meth as the team clears out a methamphetamine lab from a basement apartment at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Bonnifield Street on Tuesday. Alaska State Troopers, Fairbanks Police and North Pole Police were all on scene for the operation.
Jim Hayes enters the Federal Building on Tuesday morning. Opening arguments got under way in the federal trial of Hayes, a former two-term Fairbanks city mayor, who faces 28 counts that include theft, money laundering and tax fraud.
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