Alaska State Troopers

A Fairbanks resident died in an accident yesterday on the Seward Highway.

The Alaska State Troopers identified 31-year-old Allen Solomon as the victim in a fatal collision at highway Mile 30, ear Moose Pass. The report said Solomon drove his car into the rear end of a Department of Transportation and Public Facilities road grader, which was plowing at the time, shortly after 1:30 p.m. 

Another fatality was reported on the Seward Highway this week.

Thirty-four-year-old Anchorage resident Ifomaava Tagalu was pronounced dead at the scene after his truck collided with another truck near Granite Creek on Tuesday morning, according to an Alaska State Trooper report.

Troopers say a northbound truck lost control and “fishtailed” into oncoming traffic. It hit Tagalu’s truck head on.

Sarah Dayan of Homer was indicted on charges relating to the death of Keith Huss of Soldotna.

Huss’s body was found Sept. 29 on the Seward Highway in Turnagain Pass. He had been shot and there was trauma to his body, according to a report from the Alaska Medical Examiner’s Office.

Huss had picked up Dayan from Wildwood Pretrial facility the day before he died. He was her non-parent custodian and had bailed her out on a felony theft case, according to state court records.

 The Alaska State Troopers detained a Homer woman suspected of homicide Thursday, according to a state trooper dispatch.

The woman is 35-year-old Sarah Dayan, who was wanted in connection with the death of 57-year-old Keith Huss, of Soldotna.

A 22-year-old Nikiski woman died this weekend following a reported car chase.

According to an Alaska State Troopers report, officers attempted to stop Olivia Mapes around 2 p.m. Saturday for swerving across the center and fog lines on the Kenai Spur Highway. Mapes didn’t stop, and when she turned off the highway, a pursuit ensued, according to the state’s online trooper dispatch.