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• Celebrated Alaska storyteller charged with sex abuse of 14-year-old - KTUU.com

  11-05-2016 23:33
  
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  Celebrated Alaska storyteller charged with sex abuse of 14-year-old
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  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) A prominent Alaska storyteller and performer faces felony charges after police say he had sex with a 14-year-old boy he met on Craigslist. Alaska artist and performer Jack J. Dalton, 43, faces felony charges of sexual abuse of a minor ...
  Renowned Alaska Native storyteller Jack Dalton charged with child sex abuseAlaska Dispatch News
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• Bank threatens to sue the state for $28M over LIO move

  11-05-2016 23:15
  
  The sign outside the Anchorage Legislative Information Office. Photo: Megan AhlemanIn a letter sent Tuesday to the state’s Legislative Affairs Agency, lawyers for the bank handling a $28.6 million loan to finance renovations of the Legislative Information Office say they will sue the state if it doesn’t honor its lease agreement.
  The letter is signed by Robert H. Hume Jr. of the law firm Landye, Bennett, Blumstein, which represents EverBank, the company holding the debt taken on by t
  
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• Traveling Music 5-15-16

  11-05-2016 21:43
  Traveling Music
  Shonti Elder
  5-15-16
   
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  Now You Understand
  Riley Woodford / Riley Woodford, Buddy Tabor
  Applehood & Mother Pie
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  2:37
   
  I Am A Pilgrim
  Doc Watson / Merle Travis
  Will The Circle Be Unbroken Volume III
  Capitol Records
  4:09
   
  Little Sadie
  Tim O’Brien, Darrell Scott / Traditional
  Real Time
  Full Light Records
  2:59
   
  You Ain’t Going Nowhere
  Nitty Gritty
  
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• Jurors hear audio, Trooper investigator testimony in Kangas murder trial

  11-05-2016 17:18
  Day 2 of the Nathanial Kangas murder trail included testimony from Alaska State Troopers who investigated the May 2014 shooting deaths of two of their comrades in the village of Tanana.
  Twenty-two-year-old Kangas shot Sergeant Scott Johnson and Trooper Gabe Rich as they tried to arrest his father Arvin Kangas for threatening the local village public safety officer.
  At issue in the case is whether Nathaniel Kangas premeditated the murders.
  Trooper investigator Ramin Dunford said examination of th
  
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• Assembly tells legislators to keep LIO downtown

  11-05-2016 09:01
  
  The Anchorage Legislative Information Office in downtown Anchorage. Photo: Megan AhlemanThe Anchorage Assembly officially waded into the state’s complicate process of figuring out where to house the controversial Legislative Information Office for lawmakers.
  During its Tuesday meeting, the Assembly passed a resolution asking the state’s Legislative Council to re-think a move to purchase the Wells Fargo building in the Spenard neighborhood.
  The measure’s sponsor, downtown assemb
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, May 10, 2016

  11-05-2016 03:49
  
  
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  Jury begins to hear case involving the death of two State Troopers in Fairbanks
  Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
  A Fairbanks jury has begun hearing the case of a Tanana man charged with killing 2 Alaska State Troopers in the interior village. 22-year-o
  
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• House Rules Committee holds hearing on oil and gas taxes, first in over three weeks

  11-05-2016 03:06
  
  
  After weeks of delays, a bill to overhaul the state’s oil and gas taxes could advance quickly. The House Rules Committee held the first public hearing in more than three weeks on the legislation Tuesday.
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  House Rules Committee Chairman Craig Johnson (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage)The committee’s version of the bill would phase out refundable tax credits over the next three years.
  Chairman Anchorage Republican Craig Johnson said the bill draws on input from
  
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• Crown Princess makes unexpected stop in Juneau

  11-05-2016 02:53
  
  
  The Crown Princess cruise ship arrived unexpectedly in Juneau on Sunday. The ship was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. Kirby Day, manager of port operations for the Holland America Group, said operations in Vancouver — where the ship’s journey began — were slower than usual.
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  “There were three ships in Vancouver on Friday and with about 8,500 people the embarcation process just went very slow for all three ships,” Day said. “All three ships sailed
  
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• Salmon acceleration up Copper River may be due to early breakup

  11-05-2016 02:51
  
  
  An early break up on the Copper River may accelerate salmon moving upstream. Glenallen area state sportfish biologist Mark Sommerville says little ice remains and water levels are unusually low, conditions that may lead to warmer water and trigger early fish migration.
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  “I would anticipate them to be a little bit early just based on what I’m seeing, but don’t me to that,” Sommerville said.
  Sommerville says the first sockeye and king salmon are usua
  
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• A wrench and a spark shut down TAPS for nine hours

  11-05-2016 02:43
  
  
  The April 20, 2016 fire took place at Pump Station 5, near Coldfoot. Photo courtesy of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.A worker with a hand-wrench sparked the fire last month that shut down the trans-Alaska pipeline for nine hours.
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  The fire, on April 20, forced the evacuation of more than 50 people working at a remote pump station near Coldfoot, at the edge of the Brooks Range.
  Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which operates the pipeline, is investigating the cause of the fire. Spok
  
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• Sealaska back in seafood business

  11-05-2016 02:40
  
  
  Southeast Alaska’s regional Native corporation is back in the seafood business. Juneau-based Sealaska on Monday announced the purchase of a minority share of a Seattle processing plant.
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  Independent Packers Corp. is a specialty plant that processes about 50 million pounds of seafood annually.
  It’s the first of several investments the corporation plans to announce this year.
  Sealaska Chief Operating Officer Terry Downes said it’s a successful enterprise insulated f
  
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• Jury begins to hear case involving the death of two State Troopers in Fairbanks

  11-05-2016 02:18
  
  
  A Fairbanks jury has begun hearing the case of a Tanana man charged with killing 2 Alaska State Troopers in the interior village. 22-year-old Nathaniel Kangas shot Trooper Gabe Rich and Sargent Scott Johnson while they were trying to arrest his father at the Kangas’ home on May 1st, 2014. During his opening statement on Monday, District Attorney Greg Olson began making the case for first degree murder convictions.
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• Palmer meat plant up for sale

  11-05-2016 01:53
  If you know how to cut meat, the state has a business you might be interested in.  The state’s Board of Agriculture and Conservation [BAC] has issued a request for proposals to lease and operate the Mt. McKinley Meat and Sausage Plant in Palmer. The proposed lease arrangement includes an option to purchase the plant.
  Mt. McKinley is the only US Department of Agriculture approved slaughterhouse in Southcentral Alaska, and without it, livestock producers in the area will not be able to
  
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• Shell forfeits Arctic leases once worth $2b

  11-05-2016 01:35
  File photo: John Ryan/KUCBShell is giving back all but one of its leases in the Chukchi Sea.
  The announcement comes seven months after Shell said it was halting exploration in Alaska’s offshore Arctic for the foreseeable future.
  Gov. Bill Walker calls the news “disappointing.”
  Michael LeVine, Pacific senior counsel for the conservation group Oceana, says the lease-surrenders underscore Shell’s exit.
  “They’re significant because they really call to an end
  
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• Scientists investigate social patterns of salmon

  11-05-2016 01:08
  Each summer, millions of fish return to Bristol Bay, and then swim on to the stream where they were born to spawn, and die. Exactly what compels them to return to the right spot is unknown. But scientists think that some hatchery-raised steelhead in Oregon might hold a clue.
  “Chinook salmon, Yukon Delta NWR.” Photo: Craig Springer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Via Flickr Creative Commons.Are salmon social creatures? That’s the question a pair of researchers
  
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• Ferry advocates rethink management under smaller budgets

  11-05-2016 00:52
  
  Should the Alaska Marine Highway System be managed differently? That’s a question being asked by ferry advocates as they cope with smaller budgets and reduced schedules.
  Passengers disembark the ferry Malaspina in Skagway during its 50th anniversary sailing. . (File photo by Mikko Wilson/360 North)Since it began more than 50 years ago, Alaska’s ferry system has been part of the state Department of Transportation. And for the past decade or so, there’s been a Marine Transportati
  
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• Canadian-based company buys Icicle Seafoods after a year on the market

  11-05-2016 00:17
  
  Icicle Seafoods has a new owner. Canadian-based Cooke Seafood announced it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Icicle’s whole operation.
  (Graphic credited to Icicle Seafoods)Icicle Seafoods started small in Petersburg and grew into one of the largest seafood companies in North America. In 2007, private equity firm Paine and Partners acquired Icicle, and began looking to sell it whole or in pieces a little over a year ago. Outlets like Undercurrent News and Intrafish aggressively cover
  
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