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• Bombing suspect drew FBI’s attention in 2014 after domestic dispute

  20-09-2016 23:53 via ktoo.org
  
  A domestic dispute in 2014 triggered FBI scrutiny into New York-area bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami.
  A law enforcement official said that Rahami’s father, Mohammad R. Rahami, had called New Jersey police over the dispute involving his son but later retracted his complaint.
  When these types of complaints come in, they usually go into the FBI’s Guardian Threat Tracking System, which prompts a limited level of investigation and surveillance.
  In a statement, the FBI said that it &ldqu
  
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• Explosion at Westward Seafoods sparks police investigation

  20-09-2016 23:30 via ktoo.org
  
  The explosion caused more than $100,000 of damage to the fish processing plant, according to police estimates. (Photo provided by Unalaska Department of Public Safety)
  Police are investigating an explosion that damaged the Westward Seafoods plant Monday night.
  No one was injured in the blast, but the Unalaska Department of Public Safety estimates the building sustained more than $100,000 in damage.
  Public Safety Director Mike Holman said thirteen responders arrived at Westward about 6:
  
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• School Board candidate debates – September 19, 2016

  20-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  On Sept. 19, 2016, four candidates for Juneau School Board — Kevin Allen, Dan DeBartolo, Jason Hart and Steve Whitney — debated the key issues of the race. The Oct. 4 election will fill two open seats on the school board.
  
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• Ketchikan assembly starts process for home-rule charter

  20-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Despite reservations from some Assembly members, a resolution calling for the formation of a home-rule charter committee was approved Monday by the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly.
  The Assembly’s vote kicks off the process for creating a charter committee, but doesn’t guarantee that the process will be completed.
  The borough still needs to find at least seven people interested in drafting a charter.
  The committee must be elected by a vote of the public.
  Nominating petitions will b
  
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• North Star Borough School Board member seeks to change school’s name

  20-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board is asking to change the name of an elementary school.
  Badger Road Elementary is named for a convicted pedophile, Michael O’Brien said. Harry M. Badger admitted to abusing a 10-year-old girl, historical records show.
  Fairbanks School board Vice-President Mike O’Brien said when he first ran for office, several people told him about Harry M. Badger.
  An official land recorder was accused of raping a young girl about 100 
  
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• Bent Columbia propeller shrinks Southeast ferry service

  20-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The state ferry Columbia will soon sail south for repairs to a damaged propeller. That will leave Southeast with fewer port calls. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  The Alaska Marine Highway System’s largest ferry needs work on one of its propellers.
  The 500-passenger Columbia will soon head to a Portland, Ore., shipyard for repairs.
  As a result, most of Southeast Alaska’s larger cities will lose one or two port calls a week.
  Sitka will go two full weeks without ferry service
  
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• Taste the outrage: Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet compares refugees to Skittles

  20-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Politics, Skittles and a massive humanitarian crisis don’t mix very well. (Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)
  Social media have become home to two things in recent years: memes and public shaming.
  Both came into play Monday night when Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an image of a bowl of Skittles, comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned candy. “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you three would kill you, would you take a handful?” the meme asks. “That’s our Syrian refugee
  
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• Mudrooms – 9-22-16

  20-09-2016 20:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The theme is Cheechako: stories of being green in the Great State.
  We’ll start at 7:00pm at Northern Light United Church.
  Cost is $7. Profits benefit the Zach Gordon Youth Center. Coppa coffee & Rookery cookies will be available for purchase.
  Storytellers are: Tom Kelly, Jim Hale, Tanna Peters, Nico Bus, Candice Bressler, Graham Story, and Tony Newman.
  Music by Njuzu Marimbashttp://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/MR-9-15-16.mp3
  
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• High wind warning in effect for Southcentral Alaska

  20-09-2016 20:12 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — The Anchorage Office of Emergency Services is warning residents to prepare for a big blow.
  A high wind warning is in effect from 7 p.m. Tuesday to 4 p.m. Wednesday as a storm moves in from the Bering Sea.
  Higher elevations and Turnagain Arm could see winds gusting to 100 mph.
  The National Weather Service high wind warning also covers the eastern Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound communities and Prince William Sound to locations east of Cordova.
  Heavy rain could cause flo
  
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• After police killing of unarmed man, Tulsa chief promises to ‘achieve justice’

  20-09-2016 19:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by police in Tulsa., Okla., on Friday, in a case that has prompted a Justice Department investigation. (Image by Tulsa Police)
  The video is disturbing and prompts many questions — and that’s how the police see it. The family of Terence Crutcher, who was shot dead by police Friday, says the footage should lead to criminal charges against the officer who killed an unarmed man.
  The Justice Department has begun a parallel investigation into possible c
  
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• Last private primary care practice in Haines to close its doors

  20-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Dr. Keirstead’s office has been open in Haines for nine years. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  The last primary care physician with a private practice in Haines is closing her doors.
  Dr. Linda Keirstead has been in business at the Chilkat Valley Medical Center in Haines for nine years. But in a letter sent to her patients earlier this month, she says the office will soon close.
  Starting next month, patients heading to the doctor’s will only have one option.
  In the letter, Keirstead sai
  
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• Former Kenai mayor seeks to restore WWII-era fire truck

  20-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  KENAI — Former Kenai Mayor John Williams is leading an effort to restore a World War II-era Kenai Fire Department engine.
  The Peninsula Clarion reports that the City Council has already approved $10,000 in city funds for the project, or about one-third of its estimated cost. Councilors will meet this week to vote on allocating another $3,500 from the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation to support the fire truck restoration.
  Williams plans to get the truck back in working order.
  The vehicle
  
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• Video: Forty years of Alaska’s failed gas line plans

  20-09-2016 18:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Since the 1970’s Alaskan leaders have dreamed of building a gas pipeline from the North Slope. There have been presidential proclamations, congressional hearings and lots of  backroom deals, but no project has come close to breaking ground. This week, in the series Pipeline Promises, Alaska’s Energy Desk is taking a look at that history- asking why the project has failed again and again, and whether it may still have a chance.
  
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• In Kotzebue, revenue doubts loom as alcohol returns to the ballot

  20-09-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  On Oct. 4, Kotzebue will decide whether or not they want alcohol sold in the city.(Photo by Tyler Stup/KNOM)
  Since October 2011, the city-owned Kotzebue Package Store has been selling alcohol.
  Come October 4th, local voters will decide the fate of the store, when they’re asked if the city should ban alcohol sales all over again.
  Hans Nelson, resident of Kotzebue since 2009, says he led the alcohol ban solo from initial petition through signature collection and onto the ballot.
  “I was
  
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• Firefighters, officers climb for the fallen

  20-09-2016 12:14 via ktoo.org
  
  
  CCFR’s Capt. Todd Cameron and Juneau Police Lt. Kris Sell participate in the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb on Saturday. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  A couple dozen firefighters, law enforcement officers and their family members participated in the annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb on Saturday at the Juneau federal building.
  Each participant hiked the 10 flights of the building 11 times for a total of 110 floors, the number of floors in the World Trade Center.
  Some of the Juneau partici
  
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• Pipeline Promises: Alaska’s quest for a natural gas line

  20-09-2016 06:48 via ktoo.org
  
  
  An LNG tanker fills up at the ConocoPhillips liquid natural gas export facility in Nikiski, Alaska. When it opened in 1969, it was the only facility of its kind in the U.S. to get a license to export its gas to Japan. For more than 40 years, the state has attempted to develop similar projects to bring natural gas from the North Slope to market, none of those projects have broken ground.
  (Photo courtesy of ConocoPhillips)
  For more than 40 years, the state has tried, and failed, to bring
  
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• State officials: Kotzebue student diagnosed with meningitis

  20-09-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — Alaska state health officials say an elementary school student in Kotzebue was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, but they will not say if it was the same Kotzebue elementary school student who died over the weekend.
  Northwest Arctic Borough School District officials also would not say Monday if there was any link between the meningitis case and the student who died Saturday, citing privacy laws.
  Health officials say they have identified close contacts of the child who would
  
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• Alaska emergency crews study up for nation’s first LNG by rail

  20-09-2016 02:37 via ktoo.org
  
  A cryogenic tank container used to carry liquefied natural gas by rail (photo by Elizabeth Harball).
   
  Standing next to a massive cylindrical rail car at the Anchorage Railroad Yard, Alaska Railroad Mechanical Supervisor Josh Cappel asked a fireman to test out the car’s hand-operated braking system.
  “Go ahead and fire that thing up tight. Come on, a little tighter than that — there you go!” Cappel joked, drawing laughs from the crowd of about 16 other members&nb
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-20-16

  20-09-2016 02:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll start a new series: Travel Tuesday, with Kevin Crowley;
  Elieen Hosey will be here to highlight upcoming free Tai Chi for Seniors classes;
  We’ll talk with Peggy Mattson and Heather Shaw about this month’s Southeast Alaska Catholic Conference;
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-News, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand on-line at ktoo.org
   
  
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• Curriculum standards

  20-09-2016 02:01 via ktoo.org
  
  School Board Issues
  Curriculum standards
  Candidate Responses2016 Juneau ElectionsFinance officials recently estimated the City and Borough of Juneau is facing a nearly $5 million deficit in the current budget year because of issues at the state level. How should the city deal with budget volatility? Kevin Allen
  Candidate for School Board
  Well, one thing that I recently have gone to was a work session for the school board that was on the innovation age, the technology rolling in to the
  
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• Board preparation

  20-09-2016 01:36 via ktoo.org
  
  School Board Issues
  Preparing for School Board
  Candidate Responses2016 Juneau ElectionsFinance officials recently estimated the City and Borough of Juneau is facing a nearly $5 million deficit in the current budget year because of issues at the state level. How should the city deal with budget volatility? Kevin Allen
  Candidate for School Board
  Right now, what I am doing to prepare is mainly looking at the big bulk of the issues that I have put forth in my candidate’s statement. A
  
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• BlueCrest neighbors adjust to life near a bustling oil pad

  20-09-2016 01:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Herff Keith lives next door to BlueCrest Energy’s oil drilling pad. A construction crane and new oil drilling rig can be seen in the background. (Photo by Jenny Neyman/KBBI)
  Residents of a tiny Kenai Peninsula subdivision near Anchor Point thought they had a little slice of peace and quiet. But a tract of homestead land to the south held an oil test well. And now it’s home to 38 acres of an active oil well, processing train, natural gas flare, workers’ camp, truck filling stati
  
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