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• Sheriff’s Office: 3 Law Enforcement Officers Killed In Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  17-07-2016 22:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Baton Rouge police block Airline Highway after police were shot in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, July 17, 2016. Authorities in Louisiana say several law enforcement officers are dead, and several injured in Baton Rouge after on-duty law enforcement officers were shot on Sunday morning.
  Max Becherer/AP
  Three law enforcement officers were killed and three others injured in a shooting incident in Baton Rouge, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department.
  It said in a statement that &ldq
  
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• Electrical fire in downtown home extinguished

  17-07-2016 05:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Capital City Fire/Rescue battles fire at the Gastineau Apartments building on Saturday, March 21, 2015. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO)
  An electrical fire caused an estimated $2000 in damage at a home in downtown Juneau Saturday afternoon.
  Capital City Fire/Rescue Assistant Chief Ed Quinto said the fire on Carrol Way started around an electrical plug in one of the home’s bedrooms. He said the homeowner put out the fire with a fire extinguisher and kept it from spreading.
  All damage was limite
  
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• Why Is A Cleric In The Poconos Accused Of Fomenting Turkey’s Coup Attempt?

  17-07-2016 05:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Muslim cleric Fetullah Gulen (right) receives a vase from Israel’s Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron during a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1998. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused Gulen of involvement in a coup attempt, a charge Gulen denied.
  MURAD SEZER/AP
  As Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began re-establishing control Saturday, he immediately pointed the finger of blame for the failed coup attempt against him.
  So who does he consider most r
  
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• United Methodist Church Elects First Openly Gay Bishop, In Defiance Of Church Rules

  17-07-2016 05:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Attendees walk past a handful of placards during a break in the Methodists annual conference in Portland, Ore., in May 2016. The United Methodist Church, the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination, was holding its once-every-four-years meeting and is facing a bitter fight over whether it should lift the church ban on same-sex marriage.
  Don Ryan/AP
  Representatives of the United Methodist Church have elected their first openly gay bishop, in defiance of church prohibitions on homo
  
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• The agony and the ecstasy of Pokemon Go in Alaska

  17-07-2016 05:19 via ktoo.org
  
  A Drowzee on the road in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
  From the Aleutian chain, to the Tongass National Forest, to the base of Denali, Alaska is filled with pocket monsters.
  Since last week, the new Pokemon Go game has exploded in popularity, and Alaska is no exception.
  In Anchorage, crowds of people float around parks and city streets at all hours, their eyes glued to their phones as they try to collect creatures.
  The game draws on nostalgia for a craze that started almost two d
  
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• Chilkoot Tribe celebrates lands into trust victory

  17-07-2016 05:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Harriet Brouillette is tribal administrator for the Chilkoot Indian Association. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  A Haines tribe is calling a recent decision by a U.S. Court of Appeals a historic victory. The Chilkoot Indian Association was among five plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging what is known as the “Alaska exception,” which prohibited Alaska tribes from placing their lands into federal trust with the Department of the Interior. After years of litigation, including an appea
  
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• Feds release review of proposed Cook Inlet lease sale

  17-07-2016 05:17 via ktoo.org
  Federal officials who oversee offshore petroleum drilling have released a draft environmental review for a proposed June 2017 sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.
  The sale could cover 1,700 square miles from south of Kalgin Island to an area west of Seldovia.
  The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says the area is near existing leases in state waters.
  The draft is in two volumes covering more than 1,100 pages. It discusses alternatives to reduce leasing effects on endangered beluga whales, sea otte
  
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• Dog thieves hit Southcentral Alaska

  17-07-2016 05:17 via ktoo.org
  Pet owners in southcentral Alaska are being warned of an apparent uptick in dog thefts in the area.
  KTVA-TV reports that Anchorage Animal Care and Control is investigating after one woman reported on Facebook that three dogs had turned up beaten and at least one was found dead in the area. The woman said all the dogs were pit bull or boxer breeds.
  Alaska Bully Rescue Vice President Lisa Switzer says she’s noticed a rise in people reporting dog thefts, particularly in the Matanuska Valley.
  
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• Anchorage church holds unity march

  17-07-2016 05:17 via ktoo.org
  An Anchorage church is among the organizers of a unity march taking place on city streets Saturday.
  Organizers say the goal of the 10 a.m. event is to pray for unity in the community and to demonstrate togetherness.
  The march will have two starting locations, Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and the Fairview Recreation Center. Organizers say the participants from both groups will meet and march along Ninth Avenue to a Martin Luther King Memorial at a downtown park strip.
  The march is among event
  
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• AK lodge threatened by wildfire

  17-07-2016 05:17 via ktoo.org
  National Park Service officials say a lodge in northern Alaska is threatened by a growing wildfire that has crossed a river.
  Officials said Friday the fire near the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve had grown to more than 2 square miles in size.
  Spokeswoman Kris Fister says the owner of the private lodge at Narvak Lake reported Thursday evening that the fire was 5 1/2 miles away. Fister says she doesn’t know if the fire has moved in closer.
  The preserve is in the Brooks Range section o
  
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• $14,000 awarded to Bethel man hurt in police vehicle crash

  17-07-2016 05:17 via ktoo.org
  A Bethel jury has awarded $14,000 to a man who was injured in the back of a police vehicle when the officer driving crashed into an electrical pole.
  KYUK-AM reports that Adrian Hoffman of Tununak suffered minor injuries in the 2014 crash including bruising, a broken nose and other contusions.
  According to police records, former Bethel Police Officer Aaron Fedolfi was driving the vehicle with Hoffman in the back seat when he lost control due to icy conditions. The vehicle slid into an electrical
  
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