Mayor says Fairbanks 4 deserve compensation

The mayor of Fairbanks says the city and state of Alaska should consider compensating the four indigenous men who spent nearly two decades in prison before their convictions for the beating death of a teenager were overturned.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Mayor John Eberhart discussed ways the city can work to repair its relationship with Alaska Natives on Thursday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention.
Eberhart says the Fairbanks Four case “caused a rift” in the c