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• Munich Police: Suspect Was Student Fixated On Shooting Rampages

  23-07-2016 19:16 via ktoo.org
  
  The suspect in the attack on a shopping mall in Munich on Friday is an 18-year-old German-Iranian high school student who lived in Munich and had a history of depression, Munich police said. The shooting rampage left at least 10 people dead, including the alleged attacker, and 27 injured, according to police.
  His motive remains unclear, but as we reported, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters that “a search of the suspect’s home turned up ‘no evidence’ of li
  
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• Rains a boost to fire crews battling Alaska wildfire

  23-07-2016 08:07 via ktoo.org
  Officials say a substantial rain began falling Friday over a wildfire near Alaska’s largest city, giving firefighters a continued break in the weather as they work to protect threatened homes on either side of the blaze.
  The welcome relief follows a light sprinkle that fell Thursday, helping fire crews directly attack the fire on steep and rocky terrain about 10 miles south of Anchorage. The blaze was sparked Saturday near cliffs overlooking the Seward Highway, the only road leading south
  
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• Ex-AG named as oil and gas consultant

  23-07-2016 08:04 via ktoo.org
  
  Former Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards is now Gov. Walker’s oil and gas consultant. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Gov. Bill Walker has hired Craig Richards as an oil and gas consultant, less than a month after Richards resigned as Alaska’s attorney general.
  Walker’s office on Friday released the contract signed earlier this week. The contract runs through year’s end and is for up to $50,000.
  Richards resigned last month as attorney general, citing a desire to re-f
  
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• Comic-Con Has Become Poké-Con

  23-07-2016 07:53 via ktoo.org
  Malcolm Young and Chloe Dunbar are among the many people absorbed in Pokemon Go at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. (Photo by Harrison Hill/LA Times via Getty Images)
  This year at San Diego Comic-Con, one of the biggest phenomena isn’t just inside the convention center, it’s all around. Yes, there are billboards and installations trumpeting things like Doctor Strange and Fear the Walking Dead. But the crowds of people here aren’t looking up; they’re mostly staring d
  
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• Why ‘Boring’ Tim Kaine Might Be Exactly What Hillary Clinton Needs

  23-07-2016 07:44 via ktoo.org
  
  On Friday, Hillary Clinton chose Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
  Tim Kaine isn’t that exciting. Just ask him.
  “I am boring,” the man Hillary Clinton picked on Friday night to be her running mate said last month on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
  The Virginia senator tried to play it off with something of a dad joke: “But boring is the fastest-growing demographic in this country,” he laughed.
  So
  
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• Rape Survivor Sues After Texas Authorities Jailed Her For A Month

  23-07-2016 07:33 via ktoo.org
  
  A rape survivor is suing Texas’ Harris County after she was jailed for more than a month and subjected to beatings and “psychological torture.”
  According to court documents, she had suffered a mental breakdown while testifying against her rapist, and authorities checked her into the general population at Houston’s Harris County Jail because they feared she would flee before finishing her testimony.
  “Jane Doe found herself hopelessly trapped in a bizarre plot pulled
  
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• Timber bill signed, but will it make a difference?

  23-07-2016 07:03 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Gov. Bill Walker poses with mill workers July 16 at Viking Lumber in Klawock. He’s holding a bill he signed that could increase the mill’s timber supply. (Photo courtesy the governor’s office)
  Gov. Bill Walker has signed legislation he says will provide more timber for Alaska’s mills. But it probably won’t be that much of an increase.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/07/21LogBill.mp3Walker inked Senate Bill 32 at Viking Lumber, in Klawock, on Southeas
  
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• Alaska’s first Zika case is in Sitka

  23-07-2016 07:01 via ktoo.org
  
  The Zika virus, magnified. (Photo by Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control)
  The state department of Health and Social Services on Friday announced the first known case of the Zika virus in the state.
  It belonging to a patient treated at the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium’s Mt. Edgcumbe Hospital in Sitka.
  The patient, a man from the Midwest, had traveled in Central America. He then came to Alaska, where he began to experience unusual symptoms, said Katy Pugh, a register
  
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• The year Bristol Bay landed its 2 billionth salmon

  23-07-2016 06:59 via ktoo.org
  
  James Shawcroft holds up what might have been the 2 billionth commercially caught salmon in Bristol Bay’s history at Coffee Point, July 6, 2016. (Photo by KDLG)
  Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Over 132 years of commercial effort, now more than 2 billion salmon have been harvested from the Bay’s waters. In fact, the 2 billionth salmon was landed sometime, by someone, on July 6, 2016.
  It fell to Bob King, the longtime news director at K
  
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• Supreme Court overturns abortion parental-notification law

  23-07-2016 06:56 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday overturned the state’s parental notification law for minors seeking abortions.
  The 2010 voter-passed initiative required an unmarried woman under 18 who wanted to terminate her pregnancy to notify her parents 48 hours before the procedure.
  A woman could go to court and ask a judge for an exception, but would have to prove she was either mature enough to make the decision on their own, or that she was being abused.
  The court deemed the law unconstitutiona
  
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• Rep. Don Young’s visits sparks protests in Sitka

  23-07-2016 06:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Congressman Young was met with demonstrators calling for climate change legislation and gun control. This angered some Sitkans, who staged a pro-gun rally nearby. (Photo by Emily Kwong/KCAW)
  Rep. Don Young, Alaska’s longest-serving lawmaker, visited Sitka on the last day of the Republican National Convention. He was scheduled to speak to the Chamber of Commerce. But he first had to pass through a group of pretty disgruntled constituents.
  Seven Sitkans clustered at the back entrance of the
  
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• Metlakatla resident to represent Alaska at DNC

  23-07-2016 06:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Gavin Hudson stands with a Bernie Sanders cardboard cutout during the Alaska Democratic Convention earlier this year. Hudson is headed to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week. (Photo courtesy Gavin Hudson)
  A Metlakatla resident is heading to the City of Brotherly Love next week as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
  Gavin Hudson said he’s an unashamed progressive Alaska liberal.
  “And the champion of American liberalism and progressivis
  
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• Clinton Picks Tim Kaine As VP Running Mate

  23-07-2016 05:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia greet the crowd during a campaign event on July 14 in Annandale, Va. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
  Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is Hillary Clinton’s choice for her vice president, giving her a running mate with experience at all levels of government to round out the Democratic ticket.
  Clinton told supporters the news in a text message and a tweet on Friday evening just after 8 p.m. ET. According to a Clinton campaign of
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-25-16

  23-07-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll talk with Claire Immamura and Aaron Elmore, from the Alaska State Museum, about the special exhibit opening Friday, First Folio;
  Tom Paul will get our dancing shoes ready with news about this year’s CAMP DAMP (Dance and Music Party);
  And we’ll get the details about Saturday’s Alaska National Guard celebration, with guests Mac Metcalfe and Bruce Gazaway.
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today
  
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• Manhunt In Munich After Shooting Kills At Least 8, Police Say

  23-07-2016 01:48 via ktoo.org
  
  Police officers respond to a shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum shopping center on Friday in Munich, Germany. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images)
  A shooting at a shopping mall in Munich has left at least eight people dead and at least 10 people injured, the Munich police say.
  Police said that based on witness testimony, they were acting on the assumption that there were at least three attackers. No suspect has been taken into custody, and police are searching the entire city for suspects, NPR’s
  
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