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Bullet doesn't match handgun, expert says NOME - The bullet that killed Sonya Ivanoff cannot be matched to a .22-caliber handgun that had been stored at the Nome Police Department, a firearms expert testified...
...former Nome police officer who testified he did not shoot Sonya Ivanoff was convicted Tuesday in the 19-year-old's death...second was moved to Kotzebue. Svobodny said he kept Sonya Ivanoff's picture in his office as a constant reminder, until...
ANCHORAGE - Alaska State Trooper investigators are down to a short list of suspects in the killing of Sonya Ivanoff, a young woman found shot to death in Nome two months ago. "We've narrowed the field," said Alaska Bureau of Investigation...
...killing of 19-year-old ANCHORAGE - The FBI is investigating whether federal laws were violated in the killing of Sonya Ivanoff, a 19-year-old Nome resident who was shot to death in August. The FBI wants to find out whether a civil rights...
...shot to death, the trial of a former Nome police officer accused of her murder begins today in Nome Superior Court. Sonya Ivanoff was a star basketball player and honor roll student in Unalakleet before moving to Nome, where she worked as a secretary...
...of a 19-year-old woman. Alaska State Troopers on Saturday night charged Matthew Clay Owens, 28, with killing Sonya Ivanoff, 19, by shooting her in the back of the head with a .22-caliber firearm. Ivanoff was a star basketball player...
...state called 63 witnesses in presenting its case against Matthew Owens in the August 2003 death of 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff. Owens, 29, also is accused of stealing a patrol vehicle to divert attention from himself as a suspect. Prosecutors...
...a defense witness this week and denied he shot and killed a 19-year-old woman. "Did you fire this bullet into Sonya Ivanoff's head?" his lawyer, Jim McComas, asked Matt Owens, 30. "No sir, I did not," Owens answered in a calm voice...
...Owens received a 101-year sentence for the murder of Sonya Ivanoff and for tampering with evidence in 2003. The new law is called the Sonya Ivanoff Act. It states that any peace officer, firefighter...
...whose trial is tentatively set for April, is charged with first-degree murder in the August death of 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff. Race and pretrial publicity were key issues in the arguments over a change in venue, according to documents filed...