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• Minor injuries after crash on South Point Higgins in Ketchikan

  03-10-2016 23:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Three adults and a 2-year-old child received minor injuries following a three-vehicle crash Saturday morning on South Point Higgins Road.
  According to Alaska State Troopers’ online dispatch, troopers and North Tongass FireDepartment crews responded to the accident at about 10:45 a.m.
  Troopers report that a 19-year-old man had been driving east on South Point Higgins when he looked away from the road.
  His car struck another vehicle that was parked along the roadway. The owner of t
  
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• Four-wheeler fatally injures woman in village of Akiachak

  03-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  AKIACHAK — A 76-year-old woman died over the weekend of injuries suffered when she was struck by a four-wheeler in her southwest Alaska village.
  Alaska State Troopers say Ruth Lomack of Akiachak was struck by an all-terrain vehicle driven by Katherine Noatak, 25, just before midnight Friday.
  Lomack was pronounced dead at the Akiachak clinic.
  Noatak was injured and transported by a medevac flight to a Bethel hospital for treatment.
  Troopers were notified of the crash Saturday. Investigators
  
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• FDA Is Redefining The Term ‘Healthy’ On Food Labels

  03-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  So, you’re looking for a quick grab-and-go snack, and there’s a row of energy bars at the checkout counter. Are they a healthy option?
  The maker of Kind bars thinks so. The company has used the phrase “healthy and tasty” on some of its products that contain lots of nuts. But, here’s the issue: The bars contained too much fat to meet the Food and Drug Administration’s strict low-fat definition of healthy. So, as we reported last May, the company helped launch a
  
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• Using New Drug Cocktail, Ohio Seeks To Resume Death Penalty

  03-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  After an almost three-year, defacto moratorium, Ohio plans to resume executions in the new year, the state’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says.
  Ohio has not put anyone to death since executing convicted killer and rapist Dennis McGuire in 2014. The state used a never-before-used combination of two drugs to execute McGuire, and it took him more than 20 minutes to die.
  Today, the state told U.S. District Court Chief Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. that it had updated its execution
  
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• Parties seek speedy resolution in Alaska dividend lawsuit

  03-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  JUNEAU — The two sides in a lawsuit challenging Gov. Bill Walker’s cut to the dividend that Alaskans receive from the state’s oil wealth nest-egg are seeking a speedy resolution to the dispute.
  Sen. Bill Wielechowski says that under a schedule agreed to by the plaintiffs and attorney general’s office, a decision would be reached by Dec. 2. The schedule is subject to approval by the judge who will hear the case.
  Wielechowski is a plaintiff in the case brought against the A
  
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• Bees Added To U.S. Endangered Species List For 1st Time

  03-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Finally — some good news for the bees of Hawaii.
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has given endangered status to seven species of yellow-faced bees native to the islands. These are “the first bees in the country to be protected under the Endangered Species Act,” according to the Xerces Society, which advocated for the new designation.
  The new rule designating protections for the bees, published Friday in the Federal Register, states that yellow-faced bees are known “for
  
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• Mat-Su borough could face lawsuit over pot measure

  03-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  WASILLA — A woman looking to start a marijuana business plans to challenge the Matanuska-Susitna Borough at the Alaska Supreme Court over claims that a ballot measure prohibiting pot sales in unincorporated areas of the borough was created using fraudulent methods.
  KTVA-TV reports Amy Tuma plans to file a lawsuit at the state’s highest court Monday. The measure at the center of the suit, which will appear on Tuesday’s ballot, would limit marijuana businesses to Houston if it pa
  
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• No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Does Not Intend To Retire Anytime Soon

  03-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  With the presidential election just five weeks away, all discussions about the U.S. Supreme Court focus on the unfilled vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and the likelihood of more vacancies to come. Speculation about the most likely justice to retire centers on 83-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But in an interview with NPR, she didn’t sound like a woman eager to retire.
  The occasion for the interview was the publication of a new book titled My Own Words. It in
  
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• Four men charged regarding wasteful subsistence taking of Walrus

  03-10-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Walrus found dead and decapitated near Cape Lisburne. (Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.)
  Four men from Point Hope have been charged with wasteful subsistence taking and wasteful taking through harassment of marine mammals.
  Federal prosecutors filed the charges based on an incident that occurred last year when the four Native hunters allegedly removed the animals’ ivory tusks and left the meat to waste.
  The four men charged are Adam Thomas Sage, Michael Ricky Tuzroyluk Jr., Guy Step
  
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• NTSB: Small plane crashes in Alaska; no word on the 3 aboard

  03-10-2016 08:36 via ktoo.org
  
  A federal agency says a small plane carrying three people has crashed in a remote area of western Alaska.
  National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Clint Johnson says there is still no word on the conditions of the two pilots and one passenger, but rescuers were headed to the site.
  The NTSB tells KTVA that Alaska state troopers spotted wreckage of the plane near the coastal Togiak, about 200 miles northwest of Anchorage.
  The wreckage was in in steep, mountainous terrain, about 12 miles nort
  
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• National courts center certifies first Yupik interpreter

  03-10-2016 08:36 via ktoo.org
  
  A court interpreter in Alaska is the first certified in Yupik by the National Center for State Courts.
  KYUK-AM reports Crystal Garrison has spent the last 15 years working the Alaska Court System in Bethel and scored a 93 on the court interpreter written exam.
  Yupik is the primary language in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta.
  Garrison says she started working toward certification with the help of Self-Help Services director Stacy Marz and other court system officials after seeing defendants grapple wit
  
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• Lawmakers near deadline to move out of office space

  03-10-2016 08:36 via ktoo.org
  
  Lawmakers are nearing a deadline to vacate downtown Anchorage office space after a judge invalidated the lease and the building owner filed a $37 million claim against the Legislature.
  KTUU-TV reports vans recently moved boxes out of the renovated Anchorage building before the Oct. 16 move-out deadline.
  The Alaska Journal of Commerce reported the building would have been leased for $3.3 million annually for 10 years. Gov. Bill Walker said he’d veto a proposed $32.5 million purchase price.
  
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• Alaska OKs marijuana, but some communities ban pot commerce

  03-10-2016 08:36 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska’s fastest-growing municipality will decide Tuesday whether to ban commercial marijuana enterprises.
  Matanuska-Susitna Borough residents will consider a ballot proposition to prohibit cannabis sales, cultivation and testing.
  Former Mayor Larry DeVilbiss says borough voters opposed the 2014 state ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana.
  He says it’s arrogant to assume that commercial marijuana should come into a community that voted against the state measure, and th
  
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• Marijuana fees could fund Sitka student travel

  03-10-2016 08:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Marijuana. (Creative Commons photo by Katheirne Hitt)
  During their regular meeting Tuesday night, the Sitka Assembly approved – on first reading – a dedicated fund for student activity travel using marijuana fees.  See ordinance here: Ord 2016-39
  The ordinance, co-sponsored by Assemblyman Steven Eisenbeisz and Deputy Mayor Matthew Hunter, proposes depositing all money generated from marijuana licensing fees into a specific fund for student travel. Depending on how Sitka&rsq
  
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• India Ratifies Paris Climate Change Agreement

  03-10-2016 08:17 via ktoo.org
  
  The smokestack of a factory on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, on Sunday.
  Anupam Nath/AP
  India has formally joined the Paris climate change agreement, handing over its country’s official ratification documents to the United Nations on Sunday.
  India’s ambassador to the U.N., Syed Akbaruddin, smiled as he delivered the ratified agreement to the international body’s office of legal affairs. The ceremony was held in front of a banner depicting Mahatma Gandhi and recognizing Oct. 2
  
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• ‘NYT’ Report: Trump’s Tax Records Show He May Not Have Owed Taxes For 18 Years

  03-10-2016 08:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Real estate magnate Donald Trump stands above the New York Stock Exchange after taking his flagship Trump Plaza Casino public in New York City. Trump’s business losses in 1995 were so large that they could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for as many as 18 years, according to records obtained by The New York Times.
  Kathy Willens/AP
  Donald Trump’s campaign is responding to a New York Times report that the real estate mogul claimed hundreds of millions of dollars i
  
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• New curriculum standards are changing instruction in Juneau schools

  03-10-2016 08:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Eli Wyatt and Tia Vreeland work a math problem on the board. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  “Nineteen plus 34. Can you do it?” Tia Vreeland, a kindergarten and first-grade teacher at Glacier Valley Elementary School, asked her former student, Eli Wyatt.
  Eight-year-old Eli is in second grade. He made a return visit to Vreeland’s classroom to prove second-graders can add double digit numbers.
  This is the fifth year of a six-year curriculum review in the district and it is
  
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• New addition will help food bank store even more food than before

  03-10-2016 08:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Jim Wilcox holds up a $100 donation on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  The Southeast Alaska Food Bank celebrated an increased capacity during an open house Saturday.
  The new addition allows the food bank to give away even more food than before.
  Last year, Jim Wilcox was the board president, but he gave that up to head the food bank’s warehouse expansion.
  “I couldn’t do both, so I turned the presidency over to one of my buddies,” said Wilcox, who&
  
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