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The Latest: Defending champ leading in Alaska’s Iditarod

FILE - In this March 16, 2015 file photo, Aliy Zirkle arrives at the Koyuk, Alaska, checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday March 12, 2016, killing one dog and injuring at least three others. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked outside the village of, a community of 236 on the Yukon River a little more than halfway into the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race to Nome. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch News via AP)
FILE - In this March 16, 2015 file photo, Aliy Zirkle arrives at the Koyuk, Alaska, checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday March 12, 2016, killing one dog and injuring at least three others. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked outside the village of, a community of 236 on the Yukon River a little more than halfway into the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race to Nome. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch News via AP) FILE - In this March 16, 2015 file photo, Aliy Zirkle arrives at the Koyuk, Alaska, checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday March 12, 2016, killing one dog and injuring at least three others. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked outside the village of, a community of 236 on the Yukon River a little more than halfway into the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race to Nome. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch News via AP)

By Associated Press 1 min read

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The Latest on the Iditarod Sled Dog Race (all times local):

11:30 a.m.

Defending champion Dallas Seavey is leading in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, gunning for his fourth win in the nearly 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) contest, with his father the closest rival.

The younger Seavey left the checkpoint at the coastal village of Shaktoolik, 171 miles (275.19 kilometers) from the Nome finish line, mid-Sunday morning. As of late morning, his father, Mitch Seavey, was the only other musher to reach the village.

Meanwhile, a 26-year-old man was set to appear in court Sunday afternoon following his arrest Saturday on allegations he intentionally drove a snowmobile into the teams of two other top mushers, killing one dog and injuring at least two other dogs. Arnold Demoski of the checkpoint village of Nulato (noo-LAH-toh) has said he was returning home from a night of drinking when he struck the teams.

The incident prompted the Nulato Tribal Council to issue a statement Saturday, saying it was “disturbed and saddened” by the incident and offering condolences to the mushers.