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• CSI: Alaska offers kids a look at forensic science - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  13-06-2016 23:29
  
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  CSI: Alaska offers kids a look at forensic science
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Students participating in the CSI Foresnsics Camp at the Alaska Crime Detection Laboratory in Anchorage investigate a staged crime scene earlier this week. Courtesy Fraternal Order of Alaska State Troopers. CSI: Alaska. Students participating in the ...
  
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• Alaska students intern with senator's office - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  13-06-2016 23:00
  
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  Alaska students intern with senator's office
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Alaska students, recently graduated from high school and preparing to enter post-secondary education in the autumn, pose for a photo in Washington D.C., where they will be interning during the summer for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Courtesy Lisa ...
  
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• Alaska Republicans back bill to prevent ObamaCare meltdown in state - Fox News

  13-06-2016 22:39
  
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  Alaska Republicans back bill to prevent ObamaCare meltdown in state
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  Alaska Republicans are joining with Democrats in taking drastic action to save the state's ObamaCare insurance system from spiraling into crisis, as all but one insurer flee the state and health care costs soar. While state Republicans remain largely ...
  
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• Walker orders Alaska flags lowered in remembrance of Orlando shooting - Alaska Public Radio Network

  13-06-2016 22:36
  
  Walker orders Alaska flags lowered in remembrance of Orlando shooting
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  In the wake of the mass shooting early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Gov. Bill Walker ordered that all Alaska flags be lowered in honor of the victims. In the attack, a gunman opened fire on the Pulse nightclub, killing at ...and more »
  
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• Builders of the Alcan

  13-06-2016 19:27
  
  Here are the words of General Simon Buckner, commander of the Army in Alaska upon being informed that Engineers 97th Regiment assigned to build the Alaska section of the Alcan Highway would be composed of African American soldiers.  He objected, concerned that the high wages being paid for labor meant they would likely “settle after the war with the natural result that they would interbreed with the Indians and Eskimos and produce an astonishingly objectionable race of mongrels, which
  
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• LGBTQ community grieves while celebrating Pride

  13-06-2016 17:39
  
  Picnic goers hold a moment of silence to commemorate victims killed in the Pulse Orlando nightclub. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)Members of Juneau’s LGBTQ community celebrated the beginning of Pride week with a picnic at a local park. The festive mood was darkened by collective mourning for victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday. At least 50 people were killed.
  Jeff Rogers said he learned about the tragedy earlier that morning and it blew him away.
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• Youth tell US Attorney General: Alaska needs help - Alaska Public Radio Network

  13-06-2016 17:11
  
  Youth tell US Attorney General: Alaska needs help
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  US Attorney General Loretta Lynch poses with a group of Alaska Native Youth. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media). When US Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited Anchorage on Friday, she went beyond just meeting with Alaska Native leaders. She also spoke ...
  
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• North to the Future remains right direction for Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-06-2016 07:28
  
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  North to the Future remains right direction for Alaska
  Alaska Dispatch News
  No matter what happens with the Alaska Legislature's special session and budget, the governor and many lawmakers seem to recognize the need to diversify Alaska's economy to insulate its government from the effects of volatile oil prices. That awareness ...and more »
  
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• Eroding Alaska's rape culture: Nurturing the peaceful warrior in boys - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-06-2016 07:13
  
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  Eroding Alaska's rape culture: Nurturing the peaceful warrior in boys
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A handmade sign referencing consent in relation to sexual assault lays on the ground at the Stanford University commencement ceremony in Palo Alto, California, on June 12, 2016. (Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters). The six-month sentence given earlier this ...
  
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• Point Hope woman vies for Miss United States crown - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-06-2016 03:59
  
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  Point Hope woman vies for Miss United States crown
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Rosemary Berg poses in her home village of Point Hope after being crowned Miss World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. (Courtesy Rosemary Berg). The last time Rosemary Berg was in Point Hope, it was for her mother's funeral. It was 2013, and a lot had changed ...
  
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• Walker orders Alaska flags lowered in remembrance of Orlando shooting

  13-06-2016 00:53
  
  In the wake of the mass shooting early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Gov. Bill Walker ordered that all Alaska flags be lowered in honor of the victims.
  In the attack, a gunman opened fire on the Pulse nightclub, killing at least 50 people and injuring at least 53 more. The suspected gunman reportedly died as well. It is reported to be the worst attack in the United States since September 11, 2001.
  The order from Walker followed a directive from the White House to lower a
  
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