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• Alaskan Book Review – “The North Slope”

  26-09-2016 22:31 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “The North Slope” by Micheal Parker and published by Acclaimed Books.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/BOOK206.mp3
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-26-16

  26-09-2016 20:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton Hosts.
  We’ll get the details about this weekend’s Black & White Gala Fundraiser for the Bartlett Foundation;
  We’ll find out about Master Planning meetings for Parks & Rec;
  We’ll learn how you can make Artist Trading Cards;
  And we’ll meet some exchange students from Palestine, Turkey;
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand via ktoo
  
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• Expert recommends consolidation for southeast hospitals

  26-09-2016 07:48 via ktoo.org
  
  Two Alaska hospitals facing financial challenges will consider consolidation.
  KCAW-FM reports the Sitka Community Hospital board plans to discuss possible courses of action at a Monday work session.
  Hospital CEO Rob Allen says the hospitals are anticipating the needs of an aging population as well as less funding from the state.
  ECG Management Consultants came up with three options for Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium’s Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital and the Sitka Community Hospital.
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• 2 arrested in shooting that put woman in critical condition

  26-09-2016 07:48 via ktoo.org
  
  Two men are facing robbery and assault charges in a shooting that left a woman in critical condition.
  KTVA-TV reports charging documents identify the woman who was shot Thursday as 40-year-old Paula Zorawski.
  The two 18-year-olds were arraigned Saturday and bail was set.
  One of the suspects also faces a charge of misconduct involving a controlled substance.
  It’s unclear whether the men have attorneys.
  The Anchorage Police Department says officers found Zorawski with a gunshot to the head a
  
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• Anchorage expects $24M budget shortfall after drop in state funds

  26-09-2016 07:06 via ktoo.org
  
  Members of the Berkowitz administration discuss budget shortfalls with members of the Anchorage Assembly at City Hall. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)
  The Municipality of Anchorage is anticipating a budget gap of more than $24 million because of diminishing state funding for programs and services.
  The bleak financial outlook for Alaska’s largest city is likely to be replicated in communities all across the state in the months ahead.
  Mayor Ethan Berkowitz sh
  
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• Guide in mauling near Angoon was storied Fish & Game researcher LaVern Beier

  26-09-2016 06:31 via ktoo.org
  
  A brown bear in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)
  Alaska State Troopers have identified the hunting guide involved in Thursday’s Admiralty Island bear mauling as 63-year-old LaVern Beier of Juneau.
  Authorities say Beier, a big game hunting guide, was with client Douglas Adkins of Jenkins, Kentucky, on Thursday evening on Admiralty Island near Angoon. They startled a brown bear on the beach which led to a brief attack on Adkins, who the
  
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• New animated film ‘Kubo’ has Petersburg ties

  26-09-2016 06:30 via ktoo.org
  
  The stop motion animated film that will be shown in Petersburg this weekend has a connection with Alaska’s Little Norway. A former Petersburg resident works with the artists behind the fantastic faces produced for “Kubo and the Two Strings” by the company Laika, which is based in Portland, Oregon.
  “It’s set in ancient Japan,” says Maya Holmes.
  Holmes grew up in Petersburg and worked on the new animated film Kubo and the Two Strings.
  Maya Holmes at a tulip
  
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• Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio

  26-09-2016 06:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Bob Topmiller, chief of toxicology at the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office, holds a small vial containing carfentanil extracted from a sample of blood.
  Jake Harper/Side Effects Public Media
  Jamie Landrum has been a police officer for two years in District 3 on the west side of the Cincinnati. In late August, the city was hit by 174 overdoses in six days. Landrum says officers were scarce.
  “We were literally going from one heroin overdose, and then being on that one, and hearing someo
  
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• Aleppo Under The Most Intense Air Bombardment Since Syrian War Began, U.N. Says

  26-09-2016 04:39 via ktoo.org
  
  In a photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, men inspect damaged buildings in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday.
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  Less than a week after a U.S.-brokered Syrian ceasefire collapsed, the city of Aleppo is being pummeled with the most intense air bombardment since the beginning of the conflict, according to the U.N.
  “The secretary-general is appalled by the chilling military escalation in the city of Aleppo,” read a statement released by a spokesperson fo
  
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