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• 2 bank robbery suspects arrested at Anchorage airport

  19-08-2016 23:32 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — Two men suspected of robbing an Anchorage bank were arrested early Friday at the city’s main airport.
  The FBI says airport police recognized 23-year-old Kaleem Fredericks and 23-year-old Calel Crofford from pictures release by the FBI.
  Airport police held the men shortly after midnight and they were arrested by FBI agents.
  Two men on Thursday morning — one carrying a shotgun and one with a handgun — robbed a Wells Fargo branch on east Fifth Avenue.
  They carrie
  
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• Fairbanks official faces driving under the influence charge

  19-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  FAIRBANKS — A top administrator for the city of Fairbanks has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and leaving the scene of an accident.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports chief of staff Jeff Jacobson was arrested Thursday after knocking down a light pole and signs and continuing on at high speed.
  Jacobson is the former mayor of North Pole and a former chief of staff for a Fairbanks North Star Borough mayor.
  Jacobson told police he took a prescription drug
  
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• Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort resigns

  19-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort walks off the floor of the Republican National Convention last month after talking to reporters. Photo by Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)
  Just months after Paul Manafort was promoted to bring some structure to and scale up Donald Trump’s presidential bid, the Washington insider has resigned from the campaign.
  In a statement Friday morning, Trump said that Manafort offered his resignation. The candidate said he is “very appreciative for his great
  
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• Researchers developing cheaper, faster monitoring method for paralytic shellfish poisoning

  19-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Organism responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning may affect fisheries https://t.co/0fgQpLIb0Z pic.twitter.com/d3b4ZVUn3F
  — Science (@scienmag) May 27, 2016Researchers are developing a field test kit that would make it easier to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning.
  Project partners include NOAA researchers from the Lower 48 as well as community testers based on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula.
  Despite the high level of toxicity found in shellfish in the Kodiak Archipe
  
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• El Nino is out. Will La Nina follow?

  19-08-2016 21:20 via ktoo.org
  
  (Graphic courtesy of NOAA)
  One of the strongest El Ninos on record ended in May. A strong La Nina would normally follow. But that isn’t a sure bet this time around.
  Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with him regularly as part of a new segment- Ask a Climatologist.
  He says both El Nino and La Nina can have a significant impact on winter temperatures in Alaska, but if this La
  
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• Ryan Lochte apologizes for ‘not being more careful and candid’ in Rio

  19-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Ryan Lochte poses with his gold medal on the Today show set on Copacabana Beach last week. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
  One day after the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee issued a formal apology to Rio and Brazil over his and others’ behavior, swimming star Ryan Lochte says he should have been more careful and candid.
  “I want to apologize for my behavior last weekend,” Lochte wrote on Instagram, “for not being more careful and candid in how I described the events o
  
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• Coast Guard airlifts 2 guides mauled by bear in Alaska

  19-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A man and a woman mauled by a bear in Alaska were airlifted by a Coast Guard helicopter to receive medical treatment.
  The two are wilderness guides who were leading a group of cruise ship passengers on a hike about 30 miles north of Sitka, the Coast Guard said.
  The cruise vessel Wilderness Explorer on Thursday afternoon notified the Coast Guard that two of its passengers had been mauled.
  The Coast Guard launched a helicopter from Sitka.
  The crew hoisted the man and woman into t
  
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• Forum@360 8-25-16

  19-08-2016 20:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tune in this next Thursday, August 25 to see Woosh Kinaadeiyi presenting original spoken word performances set to music.   Four poets share writings inspired by everything social justice issues, falling in and out of love and addiction. Again, that’s Woosh Kinaadeiyi, this week on KTOO News.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/08/WOOSH.mp3
  
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• Catastrophic floods in Louisiana have caused massive housing crisis

  19-08-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Devastating floods in Louisiana have left an estimated 40,000 houses damaged; some 86,000 people have applied for federal disaster aid in the wake of the disaster.
  It’s a crisis some people are comparing to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
  The disaster area stretches over 20 parishes, Eileen Fleming of member station WWNO reports, and officials are working to determine how to provide temporary housing to meet the extreme need.
  One challenge, as FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told NPR,
  
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• With four days left, only one person has filed to run for Bethel City Council

  19-08-2016 19:33 via ktoo.org
  The deadline to file as a candidate for the Bethel City Council election is this noon Monday, Aug. 22.
  Three council seats sit open, and so far only one person has filed for candidacy: Mary Weiss, who already serves on council after taking Chuck Herman’s spot following his resignation earlier this year.
  Council members serve two-year terms.Byron Maczynski and Zach Fansler’s terms are ending this year, and neither of them have filed for re-election.Fansler won the House District 38 De
  
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• Additional charges filed against man accused in girlfriend’s strangling death

  19-08-2016 13:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Additional charges have been filed against a Prince of Wales Island man accused in the death of his girlfriend.
  Albert Peter Macasaet III, 27, is charged in the July 31 strangling death of Judylee Guthrie, 27, of Hydaburg.
  He was arrested Aug. 9 in Klawock following a 10-hour standoff with Alaska State Troopers, but was immediately hospitalized for an alleged drug overdose.
  Macasaet was released from PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center on Aug. 15. The next day he was arraigned in Ketchikan Dist
  
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• Gardentalk – Harvest Fair preview

  19-08-2016 05:38 via ktoo.org
  
  
  An award-winning basket from the Johnson Youth Center at the 2015 Harvest Fair. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  The annual Harvest Fair and Farmers Market is this Saturday at the Juneau Community Garden on Montana Creek Road.
  “Folks can bring from all over town their produce, can bring their best, their biggest, their weirdest, those twisty carrots, the zucchinis with noses and toes, strange potatoes, or beautiful produce and flowers, jams and jellies and preserves,” said Master Gardener
  
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• Anchorage police seek information on recent shootings

  19-08-2016 03:30 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are seeking information on two shootings.
  Elijah Zeller, 18, on July 30 was dropped off at a hospital, where he died of gunshot wounds.
  Detectives are trying to determine how Zeller was shot and a possible connection to a party that morning attended by more than 100 people on Cape Seville Drive, where shots were fired.
  Police are looking for witnesses who attended the party.
  Police also are looking for Kuach Kuach, 19, who is charged with manslaughter in the de
  
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• Fire Island Wind sees expansion on the horizon

  19-08-2016 03:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Crews and visiting journalist check out the first turbine to go up at the CIRI Fire Island wind farm. (Photo by Daysha Eaton, KSKA – Anchorage.)
  After years of talks and setbacks, there’s momentum to expand the Fire Island Wind project. The first turbines started spinning on the island near Anchorage four years ago, but a planned expansion has been stalled ever since.
  Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated, or CIRI, wants to double the number of wind turbines on Fire Island from 11 to 22. B
  
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• Homer Tribune back in print with new owner

  19-08-2016 03:08 via ktoo.org
  
  The Homer Tribune has new owners as well as a new look.
  The weekly newspaper is issuing a print edition again right in time for its 25th anniversary this August.
  Jason Evans said that although he and his wife own two other newspapers, they were not in the market for a new one.
  “We weren’t actually looking for newspapers, but we do have some talented staff that live in Homer and so it was a natural to pick up the Homer Tribune and start publishing it as well,” Evans&nb
  
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• Threatened by rising seas, an Alaskan village decides to relocate

  19-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  An abandoned house at the west end of Shishmaref, Alaska, sits on the beach after sliding off during a fall storm in 2005. (Photo by Diana Haecker/Associated Press)
  Rising sea levels have eroded an Inupiat Eskimo village for decades. Now, residents of Shishmaref, Alaska have officially voted to relocate.
  The island community, located near the Bering Strait, opted to move rather than remain in place with added safety measures to protect against the rising waters. The city clerk’s office tol
  
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• Q&A: DNR Commissioner talks about background, Alaska’s resource issues

  19-08-2016 02:50 via ktoo.org
  
   
  Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack at a press conference in Anchorage on June 28, 2016. (Photo by Graelyn Brashear, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)
  The state’s newest Department of Natural Resources commissioner is one of several new additions to Gov. Bill Walker’s cabinet. Here are a few questions that couldn’t be included in the Alaska’s Energy Desk profile of him that ran earlier this week. This interview has been edited for clarity
  
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• Winter ferry schedule better than last year

  19-08-2016 02:03 via ktoo.org
  A baggage cart, nicknamed Starfish, leaves the Chenega in Sitka on Sept. 3, 2015. The fast ferry is tied up for the rest of this fiscal year. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  This winter’s Alaska Marine Highway schedule offers more sailings than the previous season’s. It also eliminates five-week service gaps for some communities.
  The schedule, released Aug. 17, shows a 6 percent increase in sailings. That’s the difference between last season’s 166 weeks and this
  
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• Trump adds fuel to conspiracy theories questioning Clinton’s health

  19-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Hillary Clinton sat on a stool while Joe Biden spoke this week. Does that mean she’s too frail to be president? (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)
  Donald Trump often questions whether Hillary Clinton is honest or trustworthy enough to be president. This week, he took up another line of attack: that Clinton is in failing health.
  Claims about Clinton’s health have circulated for years but have gained new traction recently, in part thanks to a comment by Trump and questions raised by F
  
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• Lab identifies remains of Selawik man missing since 2013

  19-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  KOTZEBUE — The remains of a Selawik man missing since 2013 have been positively identified.
  The remains Clifford Greist, 32, were identified by specialists in Texas, Alaska State Troopers said.
  Greist and Shellain Adams, 22, of Noorvik in May 2013 left Kotzebue on a snowmobile for Noorvik and were not seen again.
  More than 150 volunteers and aircraft from multiple agencies searched unsuccessfully.
  The body of Adams was found on July 4, 2013, in surf 10 miles south of Point Hope.
  On Sept. 1
  
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• Robbery suspect rifles through car, pulls gun on owner

  19-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — A car owner tried to stop a man rifling through the vehicle and was threatened with a gun, Anchorage police said.
  The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon on North Bliss Street in the Mountain View neighborhood of northeast Anchorage.
  A resident at 2:30 p.m. called to say a man was going through his car, which was parked in a carport, police said.
  When the man confronted the suspect, the suspect pulled out a handgun and threatened to shoot the man.
  The suspect fled o
  
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