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• Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, Newscast

  23-09-2016 23:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/160923-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The 2016 Permanent Fund dividend check amount is revealed,
  authorities won’t prosecute the man who tried to euthanize his cat in a Juneau animal shelter parking lot, and
  a preview of a tonight’s concert with Matisyahu, a Grammy-nominated, reggae/rap/rock artist who made the top 40 in 2005.
  
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• 2016 PFD checks will be $1,022

  23-09-2016 23:01 via ktoo.org
  
  2016 PFD Check Amount Announcement from Alaska Governor Bill Walker on Vimeo.
  Gov. Bill Walker announced Friday morning exactly how much Alaskans would receive in this year’s Permanent Fund Dividend check.
  “There you go, $1,022,” Walker said. “So I’m glad that given our loss of 80 percent of our revenue that we are still able to have a dividend over $1,000 and I will look forward to working with the legislature to ensure that that will continue on for generations t
  
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• Gas line: A love story

  23-09-2016 20:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The 1970s were a crazy time in Alaska. The state was young and along with that adolescence came its first infatuation, oil.  Prudhoe Bay was discovered in 1968 and it changed everything. It was North America’s largest oil field.
  But Alaska wanted more, and even as the behemoth Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was being built, several companies were pursuing natural gas pipeline projects to bring North Slope gas to market.
  Bill White, a pipeline historian and former journalist, takes repo
  
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• Q&A with Matisyahu: Improvising is risky, but leads to unique experiences

  23-09-2016 06:33 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Matisyahu poses for a selfie with a fan at the Goldtown Nickelodeon, Sept. 22, 2016. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
  Grammy nominated artist Matisyahu is performing to a sold out Centennial Hall on Friday night after almost a year of planning. His music blends reggae, beatboxing and alternative styles and hit the top 40 chart in 2005 with a tune called “King Without a Crown.” Thursday night, Matisyahu answered questions at a private event for KTOO members.
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• Q&A with Matisyahu: Improvising during live shows is risky, but leads to unique experiences

  23-09-2016 06:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Matisyahu poses for a selfie with a fan at the Goldtown Nickelodeon, Sept. 22, 2016. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
  Grammy nominated artist Matisyahu is performing to a sold out Centennial Hall on Friday night after almost a year of planning. His music blends reggae, beatboxing and alternative styles and hit the top 40 chart in 2005 with a tune called “King Without a Crown.” Thursday night, Matisyahu answered questions at a private event for KTOO members.
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• Southeast commercial king crab season will remain closed

  23-09-2016 06:25 via ktoo.org
  
  Norton Sound red king crab. (Photo by Jenn Ruckel/KNOM)
  There will be no commercial season for red and blue king crab in Southeast again this year. There has been a slight increase in some crab numbers but not enough to warrant opening the fishery.The fall red and blue king crab fishery has been opened only twice in the past decade, in 2005 and 2011.The numbers are still at historically low levels.
  Joe Stratman is the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s lead crab biologist for Southeast.
  
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• Midnight Curfew Imposed in Charlotte; Protester Wounded Wednesday Dies

  23-09-2016 06:02 via ktoo.org
  
  Charlotte, N.C., imposed a midnight curfew Thursday as protests continued for a third night following the killing of a black man by police. National Guard troops helped city police maintain order after the governor declared a state of emergency.ALERT: @CLTMayor and @CMPD have enacted a citywide curfew beginning Sept. 23 imposed at midnight until 6 a.m.
  — City of Charlotte (@CLTgov) September 23, 2016In addition, police say a man shot during Wednesday night’s demonstrations died on Th
  
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• Update: 69-year-old man dead in Anchorage standoff

  23-09-2016 05:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Update | 6:30 a.m. Friday
  A standoff in Anchorage lasting more than 36 hours came to an end Friday morning.
  The Anchorage Police Department says 69-year-old Robert Musser, who was barricaded in his home, is confirmed to be deceased.
  APD says an investigation and autopsy will determine the cause and nature of Musser’s death.
  Original story | 7:53 p.m. Thursday
  Anchorage Police Department vehicles, May 25, 2016. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Police say a barricaded standoff in
  
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• 2 Anchorage police officers wounded in one of two Thursday standoffs

  23-09-2016 05:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage Police Department vehicles, May 25, 2016. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Police say a barricaded standoff in Midtown Anchorage is over. According to a release from the Anchorage Police Department, 29-year-old Joseph Szajkowski surrendered shortly after 3 p.m. once officers entered the barricaded home. Szajkowski is being held on charges of kidnapping and assault at the Anchorage jail.
  Officers had been on the scene on Misty Springs Court, not far from the University o
  
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• Military: Pot confabs off-limits to Alaska-based soldiers

  23-09-2016 05:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Marijuana. (Creative Commons photo by Katheirne Hitt)arijuana
  Marijuana may be legal in Alaska, but pot fairs are still off-limits to about 11,000 members of the Army stationed here.Officials with U.S. Army Alaska say in a release Thursday that Alaska-based soldiers are forbidden from attending any marijuana, cannabis or hemp fairs, festivals, conventions or similar events.
  The letter from Maj. Gen. Bryan Owens says attendance at such events is inconsistent with military service and could advers
  
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• Kodiak weather sensor back in service after vandalism

  23-09-2016 05:30 via ktoo.org
  
  A weather station in Kodiak that provides information to boaters is back online after it was vandalized earlier this year.The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports that the Gull Island weather sensor in Chiniak Bay cost about $5,000 to build and $2,000 to get fixed after someone apparently smashed it. The system sustained gunshots in a previous incident.
  Bill Benning with the Marine Exchange of Alaska, which operates the weather station, says the group can’t afford to keep replacing the devices
  
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• Dillingham man indicted in 2015 beating death, robbery

  23-09-2016 05:27 via ktoo.org
  
  A grand jury has indicted a 36-year-old Dillingham man on murder and robbery charges in the 2015 death of a 55-year-old woman.Brian Clark is charged with first and second degree murder in the death of Ella Olsen on Feb. 7, 2015.
  Olsen’s body was found just after 5 p.m. that day at her home. Dillingham police concluded she had been beaten to death and an autopsy confirmed it.
  She had suffered injuries to her head, torso and extremities.
  Dillingham police and Alaska State Troopers investigat
  
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• As School Starts, More States Focus on Native American Students

  23-09-2016 04:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Bethel Regional High School students dance at their graduation ceremony in May 2016. (Photo by Dean Swope/KYUK)
  On the Spokane Indian Reservation, in eastern Washington, a group of about 40 public school teachers gathered last month, in a field of reeds that stretched as high as their heads.
  Before harvesting the reeds, or tules, to make mats, they prayed. Later, they left tobacco as a gift. By learning the rituals of the Spokane tribe, the teachers of the Wellpinit School District hope to conne
  
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• Murkowski launches big Alaska bills whose days are numbered

  23-09-2016 04:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski talks with reporters during a press availability following her annual address to the legislature, Feb. 19, 2014. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Thursday morning brought some of her most controversial Alaska bills to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which she chairs. There are only a few legislative days left before Congress takes a recess for the election. The controversial bills stand almost no chance of passing in this Congre
  
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• Breaking Taboo, Swedish Scientist Seeks To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos

  23-09-2016 04:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Easy and precise editing of DNA is making possible experiments with human embryos that raise a host of ethical questions. (Image by Alicia Watkins for NPR)
  A scientist in Sweden has started trying to edit the DNA in healthy human embryos, NPR has learned.
  The step by the developmental biologist Fredrik Lanner makes him the first researcher known to attempt to modify the genes of healthy human embryos. That has long been considered taboo because of safety and ethical concerns.
  Lanner is attemptin
  
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• Tribe Claims Cross-Border Rights as Hunting Violations Head to Canadian Court

  23-09-2016 04:19 via ktoo.org
  
  The site of ancient Sinixt village at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers in British Columbia, Sept. 1, 2010. (Creative Commons photo by under_volcano)
  A case against a Washington state man in a British Columbia court that begins Monday could bring an extinct Canadian tribe back to life.
  The last member of the Sinixt  people in Canada died  in 1953. The Canadian government deemed the tribe “extinct” and reclaimed their land. The Sinixt still have federal
  
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• Tulsa Police Officer Will Face Manslaughter Charge In Unarmed Man’s Death

  23-09-2016 03:56 via ktoo.org
  
  Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by police in Tulsa., Oklahoma, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in a case that has prompted a Justice Department investigation. (Image courtesy Tulsa Police)
  Betty Shelby, the Tulsa Police Department officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, is being charged with first-degree manslaughter in the case, Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler says.
  Kunzweiler announced the charge Thursday afternoon, six days after Crutcher died in a controversial encounte
  
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• Missing Savoonga man found dead of apparent hypothermia

  23-09-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Savoonga in December 2013. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KNOM)
  The body of Harlan Kingeekuk of Savoonga was found around 6 p.m. Thursday after he had been missing for about five days. Local volunteer search ground crews recovered Kingeekuk’s body before a Coast Guard helicopter arrived on the scene.
  A Savoonga Village Police Officer reported Kingeekuk missing four days after he left on a four-wheeler to visit an archaeological dig site. Local volunteer searchers located Kingeekuk&rsqu
  
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• Meet the skeptics: Questions surround Walker’s gas line plan

  23-09-2016 02:37 via ktoo.org
  
   
  Lawmakers from the House and Senate Natural Resources Committees listened to testimony on the gas line on Aug. 25, 2016. From left: Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla; Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Eagle River; Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage; Rep. Dave Talerico, R-Healy; Rep. Benjamin Nageak, D-Barrow; and Rep. Bob Herron, D-Bethel. Photo: Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk
  Gov. Bill Walker is making the case that his new gas line plan will get the project off the drawing boa
  
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• Permanent Fund will not invest in oil tax credits

  23-09-2016 02:35 via ktoo.org
  
  An Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. sign in the office in Juneau, March 14, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. has rejected a proposal from Gov. Bill Walker’s administration to invest in state oil tax credits.
  Former Attorney General Craig Richards presented the idea to the fund’s board earlier this month. The administration is looking for ways to ease the pain for smaller oil companies after the governor vetoed $430 million in credits that companies
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-23-16

  23-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton hosts.
  We’ll talk with Pat McLear about Family Promise of Juneau and Sunday’s fundraiser;
  We’ll get a preview of Friday night’s Evening at Egan presentation with guests Jan and John Straley;
  We’ll get a preview of the music of Matisyahu;
  And we’ll talk with author McKibben Jackinsky.
  That, Writers’ Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Friday on A Juneau Afternoon, live on KTOO-News at 3, repeated at 4 on KRNN, an
  
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• Officials weigh in on Alaska’s prison, substance issues

  23-09-2016 01:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Corrections Commissioner Dean Williams speaks to reporters after Gov. Bill Walker announced his appointment, Jan. 28, 2016. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Officials are hopeful that two recently passed laws and additional funding will help Alaska find solutions to problems with substance abuse and jail overcrowding.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports several organizations hosted a discussion on the issues in Fairbanks on Tuesday. The meeting focused on the criminal justice reform and Me
  
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• Prosecutors won’t charge Juneau man who tried to euthanize his cat in shelter parking lot

  23-09-2016 00:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Ben Peyerk, the director of animal control and protection at the Gastineau Humane Society, pets a cat that resided at the shelter in April 2015. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  The Juneau man who tried to euthanize his cat in the parking lot of the Gastineau Humane Society likely will not prosecuted for animal cruelty.
  Matthew Musslewhite, executive director of the animal shelter, said the man arrived Tuesday morning and asked to euthanize his terminally ill, 10-year-old, female, domestic shor
  
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• Prosecutors won’t charge Juneau man who euthanized his cat in shelter parking lot

  23-09-2016 00:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Ben Peyerk, the director of animal control and protection at the Gastineau Humane Society, pets a cat that resided at the shelter in April 2015. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  The Juneau man who tried to euthanize his cat in the parking lot of the Gastineau Humane Society likely will not prosecuted for animal cruelty.
  Matthew Musslewhite, executive director of the animal shelter, said the man arrived Tuesday morning and asked to euthanize his terminally ill, 10-year-old, female, domestic shor
  
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