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• Troopers release details of rural police officer shooting

  11-09-2016 05:46 via ktoo.org
  
  A rural Alaska police officer shot Wednesday night was struck three times but managed to escape and help another witness.
  Alaska State Trooper investigators say Chevak (CHEE-vak) Police Chief Derrick McDonald continues to receive treatment for life-threatening injuries at an Anchorage hospital.
  The shooter, 24-year-old Harold Paniyak, later killed himself.
  Chevak is on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
  McDonald responded to a call of an intoxicated man with a gun and spotted Paniyak on a boardwalk.
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• Giant cruise ship makes historic voyage in melting Arctic

  11-09-2016 05:46 via ktoo.org
  
  The largest cruise ship to ever sail the Northwest Passage is en route to New York City from Alaska.
  The Crystal Serenity left Seward, Alaska, in mid-August and plans to dock in New York on Sept. 16.
  The ship sailed up the Bering Strait, and made a port call in Nome where guests got a chance to see a herd of wild musk oxen that had taken up residence just outside town. The ship then continued north until reaching the Arctic Ocean, and then east toward Greenland.
  The melting Arctic is making this
  
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• One Moment On A Vacation Changed Her Life — And The Lives Of Child Brides

  11-09-2016 05:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Jacqueline de Chollet of Switzerland, now 78, helped found the Veerni Institute, which gives child brides and other girls in northern India a chance to continue their education.
  Yana Paskova for NPR
  It all began with a shawl.
  The year was 1993. Jacqueline de Chollet, a Swiss woman then in her 50s, was on vacation in India when she stopped at a dusty village and saw a woman in a house weaving a shawl.
  “She had three or four children including a baby she was nursing in her arms,” de Ch
  
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• Honoring The Other Fallen Of Sept. 11: Sickened Ground Zero Volunteers

  11-09-2016 05:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Framed photographs of John Feal (left) working as a first responder in the days before his injury at the World Trade Center, and during his time serving in the 101st Airborne Division.
  Christopher Cameron /WSHU
  A stack of folders with the names of construction workers, police and firefighters, and volunteers rests at John Feal’s feet. In his tidy home office in Nesconset, N.Y., Feal checks their spelling before he can send names to the engraver, who will put them on his memorial wall.
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• After Facebook Censored Iconic Photo, Norwegian Newspaper Pushed Back

  11-09-2016 05:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Espen Egil Hansen, the editor-in-chief of Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper, addressed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a front-page open letter on Friday.
  Aftenposten
  Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET
  To Norwegian author Tom Egeland, it was one of the most significant war photos ever taken.
  To Facebook, it was a “display of nudity.”
  The social media site’s removal of the image sparked an uproar — and, on Friday, the company announced it was reversing course and would be reinstat
  
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• Alaska Natives protesting Dakota Access pipeline share mixed views on oil

  11-09-2016 04:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Demonstrators in downtown Anchorage protest the Dakota Access pipeline. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska Public Media)
   
  About 60 demonstrators, including many Alaska Native people, gathered in downtown Anchorage Saturday afternoon to sing, dance and carry signs. They were there to support North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
  The Standing Rock Sioux tribe is afraid the pipeline could contaminate their water; the de
  
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