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• Hurricane Matthew makes landfall on South Carolina coast

  08-10-2016 22:38
  
  A weakening but still powerful Hurricane Matthew made landfall Saturday morning, with the eye of the storm coming ashore just southeast of the town of McClellanville, South Carolina, packing sustained winds of 75 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center reported.
  The storm, now a Category 1, continues to bring heavy rain and the threat of serious flooding to the Carolinas after raking the coasts of Georgia and Florida.
  Hurricane Matthew was being blamed for at least 10 deaths in the U.S., i
  
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• Police seek surveillance footage of early morning shooting

  08-10-2016 22:16
  
  Scene of the shootingRachel McPherron/KTVA
  The Anchorage Police Department is looking to the public for assistance in its investigation into an early Sunday morning shooting S Tahiti Loop.
  Just after 5 a.m., someone called police to report shots had been fired on the 5800 block of S Tahiti Loop, according to a statement from police.
  Police found multiple shell casings in the roadway, as well as a single hole in the back of a pickup truck parked in the driveway of a home, according to the s
  
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• AVCP selects first woman CEO

  08-10-2016 21:58
  
  This story originated from KYUK Public Media and was republished with permission.
  BETHEL — The Association of Village Council Presidents has selected its first female CEO: Vivian Johnson Korthuis. The decision comes on the third day of the regional nonprofit corporation’s annual convention, after a year fraught with challenges. Some see this convention, and the change it has brought, as the light at the end of the tunnel.Vivian Korthuis, AVCP’s first female CEO,
  
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• Local comes home like he never left

  08-10-2016 21:52
  
  When you leave Alaska, you’re a long ways away, no matter where you go. So the return is that much more rewarding.
  Eric Schierhorn is now home—if only for a few days.
  The University of Minnesota sophomore goaltender and Anchorage native played a game in his home state for the first time since seventh grade. He recorded 14 saves, leading his 13th-ranked Golden Gophers to a 6-0 shutout victory over the University of Alaska Anchorage at the Sullivan Arena on Friday n
  
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• Alaska leaders urge Trump to quit presidential race following lewd comments

  08-10-2016 21:46
  
  Backlash against comments made by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in 2005 continues, with Alaska leaders calling for him to step down.
  Trump was recorded during the filming of an Access Hollywood segment talking to then-host Billy Bush about his celebrity status allowing him to get away with groping and kissing women, including vulgar terms referencing women’s bodies. The footage was released Friday, and shortly after, Trump issued an apology on Facebook:On Saturday, Sen. Dan
  
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• Alaska High School Football: Large School Quarterfinals

  08-10-2016 21:02
  
  Service 54 — Chugiak  42The Cougars scored a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter while recovering two Chugiak fumbles. Dominik Norman’s 82-yard run evened the game at 21 heading into halftime, enabling the Cougars to outscore the Mustangs 33-21 in the second half. Fourth seeded Service will play the Lathrop-Wasilla winner next weekend at Anchorage Football Stadium.West 28 — Colony 21The defending state champs blocked four Colony
  
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• Politics of the past explored in ‘The Ticket’

  08-10-2016 08:29
  
  This is the last weekend to see “The Ticket” at Cyrano’s playhouse in downtown Anchorage.
  There are only two characters on the stage: two former Republican governors, Walter “Wally” Hickel and Jay Hammond — political adversaries who became friends later in life, although they were philosophically polar opposites.  Although both men are now gone, their memories are still fresh for many Alaskans.
  Dick Reichman, an Anchorage playwright, spent more than a yea
  
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• Alaska voters react to vulgar Trump comments

  08-10-2016 08:19
  
  Alaskans on both sides of the political spectrum are largely unsurprised by Donald Trump’s comments about women heard in a video published by The Washington Post Friday.
  In the 2005 footage, one can hear Trump saying “I did try and f— her. She was married.” Later, he said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” and, “you can do anything.” It appears Trump did not know he was being recorded for part of an Access Hollywood segment,
  
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• Hundreds dead in Haiti as Hurricane Matthew makes landfall in U.S.

  08-10-2016 07:46
  
  Hurricane Matthew reached the lower east coast of the U.S. Friday evening. The storm left hundreds dead in Haiti, according to reports, and has shut down U.S. highways and even Walt Disney World in Florida.
  In Haiti, at least 250 deaths were confirmed, while local estimates suggested more than 800 people were dead, CBS news reports.
  “The death toll is mounting, we have thousands of people that are displaced and affected. There has been complete destruction to many of the houses and dwellin
  
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• Culture and cuisine bring people together at elders celebration

  08-10-2016 05:53
  
  In the Athabascan Ceremonial House kitchen, Yaari Walker prepared for a potluck.
  The smell hit you when you walked in the door: the kind of dishes you could only find at an Alaska get-together.
  “Right now I’m making walrus soup,” she said.
  The food she’s making will feed community members at the Alaska Native Heritage Center’s Honoring Our Elders Celebration. Her walrus soup, along with salmon dip, bowhead muktuk and seal stew all topped the menu.
  Walker grew up liv
  
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• Alaska artist decides to ‘live’ in new exhibit

  08-10-2016 05:49
  
  Alaska artist Allison Warden has taken over the fourth floor of the Anchorage Museum with an exhibit entitled “The Place of the Future-Ancient,” or “Unipkaagusiksuguvik” in her native Inupiaq language.
  Warden is a performance artist who grew up in Fairbanks but has roots in Kaktovik. She said the installation is her vision of an Inupiaq ceremonial house with a decidedly modern twist.
  “The premises of the exhibit is that time is a circle so there’s a super
  
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• S&P may lower Alaska’s credit rating if state sells pension bonds

  08-10-2016 05:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Standard & Poor’s said it could lower Alaska’s credit rating if the state sells pension obligation bonds. (Creative Commons photo by eflon)
  Standard & Poor’s announced Friday it expects to lower Alaska’s credit ratings if the state government sells bonds to pay for public-worker pensions.
  Gov. Bill Walker’s administration plans to sell up to $3.3 billion in these bonds. An analyst for the credit rating agency said the bond sale would sharply increa
  
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• With absentee votes in, not much changes in Juneau election results

  08-10-2016 05:08 via ktoo.org
  
  Candidates, supporters and press filled Assembly Chambers at Juneau City Hall to watch election night results on Tuesday. Attendance — and voter turnout — was up significantly from recent years. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  Juneau city officials and volunteers counted more than 1,800 absentee and questioned ballots Friday afternoon.
  The unofficial results in the Juneau municipal election didn’t change much. In the District 1 race between incumbent Mary Becker and Arnold Liebelt
  
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• Q&A: Indie U.S. Senate candidate and MacArthur genius discusses third-party run

  08-10-2016 04:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Independent U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Stock outside KTOO in Juneau, Oct. 6, 2016. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  Independent U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Stock was in Juneau recently campaigning ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
  Stock stopped by KTOO on Thursday and for an interview. You can listen to the full 13-minute interview here, or read through a version that’s been edited for clarity below.
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s campaign declined to comment on Stock’s statements.
  
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• Downtown Anchorage: New plan proposed to keep you safe

  08-10-2016 04:14
  
  Better, worse, or exactly the same? People in downtown Anchorage say it doesn’t matter, now is the time to address crime and rowdy bar crowds.
  Thursday night we showed our viewers surveillance video of people peeing on the sidewalk, fighting and carrying open containers of alcohol near Brown Bag Sandwich company. Nearby neighbors and businesses said they are fed up with the Brown Bag’s basement bar and want change.
  After our story aired, we received a flood of comments onli
  
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• 5th Avenue, Dimond Center malls host events for Breast Cancer Awareness month

  08-10-2016 03:41
  
  Starting Friday night, events benefitting Alaska cancer patients kick off at the Dimond Center Mall. The Fifth Avenue Mall likewise has a special event planned for patients and their families.
  “For someone going through cancer treatment or recovering from the disease, it is a challenging time, both physically and mentally said Diana Matukonis in a statement from Anchorage Valley Radiation Therapy Centers (AVRTC), the sponsors of one of the events. “And for those who have lost someone
  
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• Walruses return to Point Lay — but this year, they’re late

  08-10-2016 03:15 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A young Pacific Walrus bull in coastal Alaska waters. (Photo by Joel Garlich-Miller/USFWS)
  About a thousand walruses are hauled out on a barrier island near the village of Point Lay, about 180 miles southwest of Barrow.
  The haul out is part of an unnerving trend. This year marks the eighth time in a decade that large numbers of walruses have crowded onto land in the area. The animals have been driven to shore as sea ice retreats, limiting access to their usual feeding grounds.
  But this year&rsqu
  
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• Alaska Airlines, Delta offer assistance to travelers affected by Hurricane Matthew

  08-10-2016 02:06
  
  As Hurricane Matthew continues to push through southern states, two airlines serving Alaska have announced efforts to help passengers with flights to, from or through the affected region.
  Alaska Airlines stated on its website that passengers hoping to change, cancel or postpone their flights through Friday, Oct. 7, for Charleston, South Carolina, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida, can do so until Wednesday.
  “We will waive the change fees and the difference in the price of the ticke
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10-10-16

  08-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton Hosts.
  We’ll learn about this Wednesday’s Chef Challenge at Resurrection Lutheran Church;
  We’ll get a preview of tonight’s presentation by Mark Whitman, Dick Willoughby’s Book of Claims;
  We’ll learn about Perseverance Theatre’s new production, NOT MEDEA;
  And we’ll get a preview of Tuesday’s Mudrooms event
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on
  
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• Trump issues rare apology after video of him making lewd remarks surfaces

  08-10-2016 00:59
  
   
  *Warning: Video contains unedited graphic language.
  WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump is issuing a rare apology after a video showed him making lewd, sexually charged comments about women in 2005. He called it “locker room banter.”
  The Republican nominee said that “I apologize if anyone was offended.” He issued the statement after The Washington Post revealed the video of Trump caught on a hot mic while talking with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood.”
  
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• Alaska ranks high nationally for nursing homes deficiencies, but why?

  08-10-2016 00:37 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Wildflower Court is a non-profit, 57-resident long-term-care facility in Juneau. Inspectors in December documented five deficiencies there with potential for minimal harm. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska)
  So far this year, 10 nursing homes in Alaska have been cited more than 100 times for health or safety shortfalls, according to state and federal inspection reports.
  The state has some of the highest rates of nursing home deficiencies in the nation, according to ProPublica, an investiga
  
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• ‘You Can Do Anything’: In Tape, Trump Brags About Groping, Kissing Women

  08-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  WARNING: This post contains language that is crude, explicit and many will find offensive.
  Just two days before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are set to meet for their second presidential debate, more damaging audio of the GOP nominee using crude language about women and how he would hit on them has surfaced.
  On Friday afternoon, the Washington Post published a clip of Trump on a hot mic before an interview with “Access Hollywood.” In chatting with then-host Billy Bush, who is now
  
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