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• Juneau Crime Line offers reward in March attempted kidnapping

  27-08-2016 04:51 via ktoo.org
  
  The Juneau Crime Line is offering a reward for tips in a nearly 6-month-old report of an attempted kidnapping.
  The March incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. on Dunn Street, a commercial area in the Mendenhall Valley.
  A 32-year-old woman reported being approached from behind by someone wearing a black ski mask and black hoodie as she was getting into her car.
  She fought with the person, suspected to be a male, who struck her in the face with a black gun. The suspect ran away. He’s described
  
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• State takes control of gas line megaproject; consultant warns of major risks

  27-08-2016 03:54 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Nikos Tsafos of Enalytica warned lawmakers of major unkowns in a state-led gas line project. “If I were taking over a $50 billion project, I would be a lot more worried than I feel folks are worried,” he said. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The state of Alaska is formally taking over the massive North Slope gas line project.
  After months of mixed signals, Gov. Bill Walker’s administration and the state’s three current partners — Exx
  
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• Brazilian police charge Ryan Lochte with making a false report

  27-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte attends a news conference on Aug. 12 in Rio de Janeiro. (Matt Hazlett/Getty Images)
  The saga of the swimmer and the robbery-that-wasn’t continues: Ryan Lochte has been charged with filing a false police report.
  Brazilian police say Lochte and the International Olympics Committee’s ethics commission will both be informed of the charges, NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro reports.
  The charge carries a penalty of up to 18 months in prison and Lochte could be tried
  
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• New Attorney General weighs in against ExxonMobil’s tactics fighting climate change investigations

  27-08-2016 02:48 via ktoo.org
  
  
   
  Jahna Lindemuth, Alaska’s new attorney general,  has waded into a fight over ExxonMobil and how the company fights subpoenas for information about what the company knew about climate change.  (Photo by Graelyn Brashear/Alaska Public Media)
  Since last November, ExxonMobil has been the target of a growing number of state attorneys general investigating whether the company lied about its research about climate change.Alaska’s new attorney general has jumped into that fi
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-29-16

  27-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll talk with artist Clarissa Rizal;
  James Bibb and Peggy Anne McConnichie will be here to highlight the Juneau-Gastineau Rotary Spring Bulb Sale;
  We’ll find out about Thursday’s World Day of Prayer;
  That, Writers’ Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on line via ktoo.org
  Tonight at 7 on KTOO-NEWS, Humankind.
  
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• Alaska State Fair institutes ‘smoke-free’ policy

  27-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  For 80 years, The Alaska State Fair has been operating without prohibiting smoking on fair grounds. This year’s fair, which opened yesterday in Palmer, is changing its policy on smoking.
  Following a policy update in January, smoking is not permitted anywhere within the fences of the fairgrounds property. According to the Alaska State Fair website, officials implemented the policy with the intent to “provide for the health, safety and welfare of our patrons, vendors, exhibitors, volun
  
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• Suspected heroin in Quinhagak was mostly synthetic opioid fentanyl

  27-08-2016 01:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Heroin powder. (Photo courtesy Drug Enforcement Administration)
  Alaska State Troopers are reporting the presence of high levels of fentanyl in what was suspected heroin seized in Quinhagak.
  The drugs had been tested by the State Crime Lab. Troopers report more fentanyl in the drugs than heroin and say it’s an unwelcome trend sweeping the country.
  Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
  It’s likely responsible for higher overdose rates and d
  
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• Federal and state officials respond to Andrew Reid’s sentencing

  27-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Andrew Reid arrests Wassillie Gregory on July 12, 2014 in the Bethel AC parking lot. Screenshot from AC surveillance video.
  (Screenshot from AC Surveillance video)
  Federal and state authorities followed up Wednesday’s sentencing of former Bethel Police office Andrew Reid with a news conference in Anchorage.
  Alaska Department of Law Criminal Division director John Skidmore said that Reid’s plea deal means that he can’t return to police work.
  “In the same way that you can h
  
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• All U.S. blood donations should be screened for Zika, FDA says

  27-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that blood banks screen all blood donations in the U.S. for the Zika virus.
  It’s a major expansion from a Feb. 16 advisory that limited such screening to areas with active Zika virus transmission.
  In a statement released Friday, the FDA says all those areas are currently in compliance with blood screening, but that expanded testing is now needed.
  “As new scientific and epidemiological information regarding Zika virus has become availab
  
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• 10-year-old girl dies of injuries due to ATV accident in Grayling

  27-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  A 10-year-old girl has died from injuries she sustained from an ATV accident in Grayling.
  Aaliyahellie Shangin-Andrews of Anchorage was riding on the back of a 2001 Honda four-wheeler while Kaitlin Andrews, 18, was driving.
  The driver swerved around a pothole causing the 10-year-old to be thrown from the ATV and onto the road.
  She was medevaced to the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage with fatal injuries.
  The State Medical Examiner’s Office reported that Aaliyahellie Shan
  
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• Salvation Army seeking donations for Coats for Kids

  27-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  The Salvation Army is collecting coats for school-age children again this year, and they are relying on more individual donors.
  The organization is hoping to collect enough money and new or slightly used coats this year to help 3,000 kids from kindergarten to 12th grade.
  Salvation Army Capt. Diana Gomes said they distributed 2,000 coats in the city last year, and it wasn’t enough.
  “It’s very hard because it’s first come, first served, and the families are in line by
  
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• Gardentalk – How to get a handle on persistent pest; food festival preview

  27-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  This woolly bear caterpillar contemplates taking a bite out of an apple in Juneau in August 2016. (Photo courtesy Ed Buyarski)
  Master Gardener Ed Buyarski tells us more about the re-emergence or persistence of pests like the root maggot and slugs.
  Buyarski suggests disposing of the soil and infested roots at the dump so the root maggots will not overwinter in your garden and re-emerge next spring.
  Woolly bear caterpillars also have been spotted around Juneau, but aside from an occasional bi
  
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