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• Supreme Court strikes down abortion barrier

  24-07-2016 05:37 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska Supreme Court has struck down a state law requiring parental notification of a minor seeking an abortion.
  The court found the law, approved by voters in 2010, violates the state Constitution and cannot be enforced.
  The law was challenged by Planned Parenthood of the Greater Northwest and others, who argued, among other things, that the law violates minors’ privacy rights and the due process rights of minors and abortion providers.
  Christine Charbonneau, the president and CEO of
  
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• Police stop woman from driving husband’s body in “rolling wake”

  24-07-2016 05:37 via ktoo.org
  A woman who drove her husband’s body on a days-long traveling wake in Alaska and used ice from canneries to keep him cold is not accused of breaking any laws.
  Officers responded to a call last week to find the body of a 78-year-old man inside an aluminum transport casket.
  Ketchikan Police Chief Alan Bengaard told the Ketchikan Daily News that the woman stopped at canneries for ice to put in the truck bed during the “rolling wake.”
  The man had died of natural causes.
  A mortuary
  
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• One year later, owner reunited with pet snake

  24-07-2016 05:37 via ktoo.org
  A Sitka woman has been reunited with her pet snake after it slithered out the door almost a year ago.
  The Sitka Daily Sentinel reports that Lavender, a corn snake, was found Tuesday in a man’s yard and she was reunited with her owner Robin McNeilley after a picture of the snake ran in the newspaper.
  Lavender escaped from her enclosure in August and wasn’t seen again until this week. The 20-inch snake survived Sitka’s winter, predators and even the lawnmower of the man who found
  
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• Minor flooding feared on the Chena River

  24-07-2016 05:37 via ktoo.org
  High water on the Chena River in Fairbanks has forced organizers to postpone or cancel planned races for both rubber ducks and humans.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the high water has forced Saturday’s Rubber Duckie Race and the Sunday Golden Days River Regatta to be postponed on week. Sunday’s Dawg Gone Canoe Race is canceled for the year.
  The river events were scheduled as part of Fairbanks’ Gold Days celebration, a multi-day festival that honors the city’
  
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• Two-vehicle collision leaves Egan Drive blocked Saturday

  24-07-2016 05:35 via ktoo.org
  
   
  Authorities investigate a two-vehicle collision on Egan Drive Saturday, July 23, 2016. (Photo by Kelli Burkinshaw/KTOO)
  A two-vehicle collision left a portion of Egan Drive partially closed for 30 minutes on Saturday afternoon. Officer Jason Vansickle said a driver travelling inbound on Egan was turning left toward Fred Meyer when the vehicle was t-boned by another vehicle travelling in the outbound lane.
  Vansickle said the vehicles were carrying seven people. They were all transported to
  
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• French company promises Western Alaska high speed internet

  24-07-2016 05:27 via ktoo.org
  
  The Ile de Brehat docked in Dutch Harbor. (Photo by Laura Kraegel/KUCB)
  Western Alaska just got one step closer to high-speed internet.
  That’s because, after years of planning and wrangling permits, Quintillion is finally ready to lay fiber optic cable from Prudhoe Bay to Nome. The telecom company has one vessel stationed in the Bering Sea and another close behind.
  The Ile de Brehat has left its homeport in France, passed through the Panama Canal, and will soon arrive in Nome. Th
  
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• Ferry breakdown strands passengers in Petersburg

  24-07-2016 05:27 via ktoo.org
  
  Joe Yuhas and brothers Steve and Larry Banwart were stranded in Petersburg after the Columbia ferry broke down on Wednesday. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KFSK)
  Nearly 200 passengers were stranded in Petersburg this week after a mechanical issue on one of Southeast Alaska’s main ferries caused it to stall there Wednesday morning. KFSK’s Abbey Collins met a few of those passengers before they left town late Thursday night.
  Larry Banwart and his brother Steve were living the dream – ri
  
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• Russian Balloonist Circumnavigates The Globe, Claims World Record

  24-07-2016 05:26 via ktoo.org
  
  Fedor Konyukhov waves to spectators before lift off from the Northam Aero Club on July 12 in Northam, Australia.
  Paul Kane/Getty Images
  A 65-year-old Russian adventurer has piloted a balloon around the world solo and non-stop in 11 days, claiming a new world record.
  If the record is confirmed, Fedor Konyukhov has shaved a full two days off the previous record set by American adventurer Steve Fossett in 2002. The World Air Sports Federation, which makes the determination, congratulated Konukhov a
  
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• California’s Governor Denies Parole To Former Manson Follower

  24-07-2016 05:26 via ktoo.org
  
  Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten confers with her attorney, Rich Pfeiffer, not shown, during a break from her hearing before the California Board of Parole Hearings in April in Chino, Calif.
  Nick Ut/AP
  California Gov. Jerry Brown has denied parole to former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, 66, who is serving a life sentence for her part in the cult’s notorious killing spree in Los Angeles in 1969.
  In April, a California parole panel had recommended that Van Houten
  
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