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• Alaska borough assembly opens meeting with appeal to Satan

  11-08-2016 23:59 via ktoo.org
  KENAI — An Alaska borough assembly opened a meeting Tuesday with a call for guidance from the powers of Lucifer.
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly featured an invocation from a member of the Satanic Temple.
  Iris Fontana called on the gathered to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge.”
  She called for reasoning solutions with agnosticism and “holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.”
  She closed her comments with, “Hail S
  
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• Teen airlifted to Anchorage after crash near Nikiski

  11-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  NIKISKI, Alaska — A Kenai teenager was flown to Anchorage with serious injuries after a crash Thursday morning on the Kenai Spur Highway near Nikiski.
  Alaska State Troopers say 19-year-old Kiana Edgmon drove south, crossed the centerline near Mile 17 and overcorrected.
  The truck slid into the ditch along the southbound lane, rolled and pinned Edgmon beneath it.
  Medics lifted the truck and extricated Edgmon.
  She was flown to an Anchorage hospital by a LifeMed helicopter.
  
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• Gala concerts to close summer orchestra music festival

  11-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Navy Band Northwest performs during the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra’s Summer Music Festival. (Jenny Neyman, KBBI)
  Audiences have been enjoying the sweet sounds of the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra’s Summer Music Festival this week and last. It’s about to wrap up, with noon concerts Thursday and Friday, and gala concerts Friday and Saturday.
  The annual two-week summer music festival in Homer and the central Kenai Peninsula includes free noon concerts at venues around town, as
  
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• Slana woman dies in SUV crash on Nabesna Road

  11-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  GLENNALLEN — A 55-year-old passenger riding in a sport utility vehicle died Tuesday night in a one-vehicle crash on a remote interior Alaska road.
  Helen West of Slana died as she was being transported to a hospital after the crash.
  Alaska State Troopers say West was a passenger in an SUV driven by 29-year-old Vanessa Murphy of Slana on Nabesna Road about five miles south of the Tok Cutoff.
  Murphy was driving east when she lost control.
  The SUV entered the ditch and rolled, ejecting Murphy
  
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• 25-year-old drowns in boating accident near Pilot Station

  11-08-2016 21:44 via ktoo.org
  A hunting trip near pilot station went awry earlier this week resulting in the drowning of a resident of Pitkas Point.
  Late Monday night, Alaska State Troopers from Emmonak investigated a boating accident in a creek near Pilot Station. Derek Sipary, Noel Tinker, and Thaddeus Riley were on a moose hunting trip when their boat struck a submerged log, causing them to be thrown from the boat.
  All three Pitkas Point locals swam for something stable, but Riley, 25, was taken underwater by the current
  
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• Massive carnivore Greenland shark is at least 272 years old

  11-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The long lifespan of the Greenland shark, shown here in the cold, deep waters of the Uummannaq Fjord, may only be surpassed by that of the ocean quahog, a clam known to live as long as 507 years. (Julius Nielsen, Science)
  Sharks can live to be at least 272 years old in the Arctic seas, and scientists say one recently caught shark may have lived as long as 512 years.
  That’s according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science that says Greenland sharks can live longer than any oth
  
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• Former KFSK volunteer show host, former mayor remembered as ‘a happy guy’

  11-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  well-known Petersburg resident and former mayor Al Dwyer, 74, died Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, due to health complications. (KFSK)
  Friends and family remember a well-known Petersburg resident and former mayor as a “happy guy.”
  Al Dwyer, 74, died Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, due to health complications.
  Dwyer had been in and out of the hospital over the last five years.
  He had three strokes and later heart problems. His family were surprised when doctors found just last week that he had pancr
  
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• Ketchikan school board wants better student athlete transgender policy

  11-08-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  The Ketchikan School Board discussed Wednesday about transgender policies for student athletes, and how such policies need to be uniform for state competitions.
  Superintendent Robert Boyle gave an overview of the Alaska School Activities Association’s policy on transgender athletes:
  “Whatever each school district has as their individual policies is allowable,” he said. “If a school district has no policy, then the policy is their birth certificate governs the sport t
  
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• Massive blast at Maryland apartment complex injures dozens of people

  11-08-2016 19:42 via ktoo.org
  
  More than 160 firefighters and emergency medical personnel responded to the incident reported just after midnight at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring, Md.
  (Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, Associated Press)
  As many as seven people were missing and dozens injured after a massive explosion and fire overnight gutted a Maryland apartment building. Firefighters reported dramatic scenes of children being tossed to safety from windows.
  Approximately 30 residents and three firef
  
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• Democrats target their own in state House primary, backing Nageak challenger

  11-08-2016 05:25 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Dean Westlake is challenging Barrow Rep. Bennie Nageak in the Democratic primary; in 2014, Westlake lost the race by 131 votes. Photo: Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk
  Democrats are hoping to take control of the state House this year. To achieve that, they’re gunning for two lawmakers who run as Democrats but largely vote with the Republicans.
  One is Rep. Bennie Nageak, D-Barrow, who represents House District 40, which stretches from Kotzebue to Kaktovik.
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• Legislative openings entice big spending on primaries

  11-08-2016 05:09 via ktoo.org
  
  Three races for open seats have drawn a quarter of all spending by state legislative candidates ahead of the primary election Tuesday. (Creative Commons image by Moritz Wickendorf)
  State legislators who aren’t running for re-election have created openings drawing big spending ahead of the primary election Tuesday.
  A quarter of all spending by legislative candidates has been in just three races for open seats, but it isn’t clear whether those who’ve spent the most will
  
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• Van fire spreads to Ketchikan building

  11-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Firefighter Seth Krasnow watches the progress of fire crews as they make sure hot spots are extinguished in a Stedman Street building that caught fire Wednesday. (Leila Kheiry, KHNS)
  A parked van sparked, igniting a fire Wednesday afternoon that burned a building at 525 Stedman Street, Ketchikan.
  Traffic had to be rerouted for several hours from the busy Ketchikan road – a primary route for most vehicles, including tour-related traffic.
  No injuries to civilians or firefighters were re
  
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• Tuluksak man still missing after a month

  11-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  A Tuluksak man remains missing. Walter Hawk, 43, walked away from his village almost a full month ago.
  Tuluksak Search and Rescue last spotted him over the weekend, about 10 miles upriver from the village. Search and Rescue member Nelson Napoka said when Hawk saw the boat and heard the group shouting his name, he ran away.
  Search and Rescue has seen Hawk several times since he left town, but each time he’s disappeared before they could reach him. Napoka said the searchers tie food in the t
  
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• Firefighters gain ground on 2 big California blazes but a 3rd gains strength

  11-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Fire crews made significant progress Wednesday in containing the Pilot Fire in California’s San Bernardino Mountains. It’s one of three major fires currently burning in the state. (Mark Boster, LA Times via Getty Images)
  Fire crews in California were battling three major wildfires, gaining ground on two of them but hampered by steep terrain while fighting a third blaze.
  In central California, the Mineral Fire saw “extreme fire behavior” overnight, burning 5,000 acres off
  
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• More candidates file for Skagway and Haines assembly races

  11-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Skagway Assembly incumbent Tim Cochran Orion Hanson filed for two open seats on the Skagway Borough Assembly. (Greta Mart)
  Two candidates have filed for two open seats on the Skagway Borough Assembly. And one more candidate has filed for the assembly race in Haines.
  Outgoing Skagway Assemblyman Tim Cochran and newcomer Orion Hanson put their names in the running Wednesday.
  Cochran is a plant manager at Petro Marine Services who has served two terms on the assembly. His current three-year stint e
  
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• ‘Lock up all the black hoodies’: DOJ report details abuses by Baltimore Police

  11-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A man looks to a mural of Martin Luther King Jr., on June 23, in the area where riots broke out after the funeral for Freddie Gray last year in Baltimore. (Brendan Smialowski, AFP, Getty Images)
  In a damning report released Wednesday, the Department of Justice details the ways in which the Baltimore Police Department has violated the rights of the people its officers are sworn to protect.
  The problems detailed in the 163-page report are broad and deep. But they’re specific, too: a “p
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-11-16

  11-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll talk with Frank Coenraad about UAS Enrollment Day
  We’ll talk with Sharon Gaiptman and Missouri Smyth about tryouts for this year’s production of King Island Christmas;
  Sarah Lewis will be talking about her Wild Kitchen Walk
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up!
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Thursday afternoon on A Juneau Afternoon.
  Tonight at 7, tune in for an hour-long special celebrating road trips on The Ride
  
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• Tuesday standoff ends in arrest of dead woman’s boyfriend

  11-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  A Tuesday afternoon standoff ended after a Prince of Whales Island man was arrested in the death of a 27-year-old woman more than a week after she was found dead next to a trail near Klawock on the island.
  Judylee Guthrie’s body was discovered July 31.
  An arrest warrant charging Guthrie’s boyfriend, Albert Peter Macasaet III, 27, with first-degree murder was issued Tuesday.
  Macasaet produced a gun and barricaded himself inside with his children and other adults wh
  
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• Should we make room for worms on our dinner plate?

  11-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  (Lisa Brown for NPR)
  In southern Venezuela, the Ye’kuana people gather them from the mud around streams or dig them up from the floor of the highland forest. They’re gutted and boiled and eaten — or smoked and sold at prices three times that of other smoked meats.
  What is this lucrative, forageable fare?
  Earthworms.
  “These edible worms are as much a part of the food supply as chicken is [in the U.S.],” says Darna Dufour, a professor of anthropology at the University
  
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• Report: 2015 was Earth’s warmest year on record

  11-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  This image, courtesy of NOAA Climate.gov, shows differences in surface temperatures over time.
  Rising sea levels, changes in marine habitat, decreasing Arctic sea ice and retreating mountain glaciers over the last 50 years all signal that the planet has long surpassed a tipping point in a changing global climate.
  According to a new report on the status of the Earth’s climate, one of the strongest El Niño events in recent history and long-term climate change were responsible for
  
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• Home invasion robbery injures Anchorage man

  11-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A home invasion robbery left an Anchorage man injured early Wednesday.
  A man just before 3 a.m. sought treatment at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Anchorage police said.
  He told medical personnel he had been robbed at his home on east 12th Avenue.
  Hospital staff called police, who went to the home a few blocks south of Debarr Road and east of Boniface Parkway.
  Police found a large marijuana grow inside the home.
  Police say they it was apparent intruders had force
  
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• Nation’s top medical officer witnesses front lines Alaska’s opioid epidemic

  11-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy in the Napaskiak clinic with Community Health Practitioner Augusta Williams and YKHC CEO Dan Winkelman.
  (Anna Rose MacArthur, KYUK)
  The national opioid epidemic gives no exception to rural Alaska.
  The U.S. Surgeon General will release a report on substance abuse addiction and health later this year.
  To prepare, the nation’s top medical officer is meeting with health care providers around the country on ways to prevent or treat opioid addiction.
  U.S. Su
  
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• Man with bushy-brown fake beard robs Anchorage bank

  11-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — The FBI is looking for a man who wore a fake beard to rob a bank Tuesday in Anchorage.
  A spokeswoman in a release says the man just before 2 p.m. walked into the First National Bank on Gambell Street east of Sullivan Arena.
  He handed a note to a teller that demanded cash.
  He walked out with cash and fled on a bicycle.
  Images taken inside the bank show the man with a bushy, fake, brown beard that covered his mouth and descended to his chest.
  He also wore a dark, hooded sweat shi
  
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