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• Newscast – Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016

  13-10-2016 23:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/20161013newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Juneau police recover stolen items at a house off Willoughby, including stuff from last month’s Observatory Books break-in,
  Highlights from Wednesday night’s U.S. Senate candidates fisheries debate, and
  Federal authorities want visitors to stay away from the massive walrus haul-out at Point Lay.
  
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• Jack Greenberg, Civil Rights Icon Who Argued Brown v. Board Of Education, Dies

  13-10-2016 23:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Jack Greenberg, one of the lawyers who argued the landmark Supreme Court case that ended federal tolerance of racial segregation in schools, died Wednesday. He was 91.
  Greenberg was a giant of the civil rights era. He argued 40 cases before the nation’s highest court, fighting against segregation, employment discrimination and the death penalty.
  As Thurgood Marshall began a career on the federal bench that would eventually take him to the Supreme Court, he hand-picked Greenberg to take his
  
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• Teaching commission proposes change in ethics code to protect Alaska’s transgender students

  13-10-2016 23:26
  
  The commission in charge of regulating professional teaching practices in Alaska has proposed adding additional language to its Code of Ethics to protect transgender students from discrimination. A new clause would add “gender identification” to the “protected classes of colleagues” part of the code.
  Current code states that an educator may “not harass, discriminate against, or grant a discriminatory advantage to a student based on on race, color, creed, sex, nation
  
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• Alaska proceeds with pension bond plan despite credit warning

  13-10-2016 22:32
  
  The state is proceeding with plans to sell up to $3.3 billion in bonds to help pay for Alaska’s pension obligations despite a warning that the action could trigger a drop in the state’s credit rating.
  S&P Global Ratings last week indicated that it would likely lower the state’s credit rating if the bonds were sold. It is the only one of three major ratings agencies to indicate that a credit hit from the sale is possible.
  The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports that the state
  
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• Police recover stolen property from Observatory, other burglaries

  13-10-2016 22:25 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau police recovered some stolen items linked to recent burglaries including items from Observatory Books in early September.
  The police served a search warrant Wednesday afternoon on a property in the 300 block of Village Street in downtown Juneau.
  Police searched inside the house and several vehicles on the property.
  “They did recover some items that had been listed in previous burglaries,” Lt. David Campbell said. “They listed off several different possibilities. They&rs
  
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• Story Time w/ Aunt Phil: Naming Anchorage

  13-10-2016 21:13
  
  How did Anchorage get its name?
  While some Alaska towns were named after people who made a mark in the northland –- like Seward, Juneau and Palmer –- Anchorage didn’t evolve as a result of a person or a resource. It came to be due to the federal government’s need to get resources from Alaska’s interior to ships that could carry those valuable items south.
  As late as 1913, there was no town at the head of Cook Inlet. There was only a spot called Ship Creek, where sma
  
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• The CAT S60: A rugged smartphone with a thermal camera

  13-10-2016 21:04
  
  Imagine a smartphone as rugged as Alaska — add a thermal camera and you have the CAT S60.
  It’s the world’s first phone with that feature, and it’s exclusively available in Alaska through GCI.
  According to Greg Klimek, the vice president of wireless sales and marketing for GCI, the thermal camera is good for contractors and hunters.
  Not only is the thermal camera a selling point, the phone can withstand being in water up to 15 feet deep for an hour and it’s “dr
  
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• Workforce Wednesday: Beer brewing and the process industry

  13-10-2016 20:30
  
  In Alaska, there are 28 active breweries with eight more in the planning stages. But whether companies are turning crude oil to fuel or grain into beer, both are part of the process industry.
  Lee Ellis, the head brewer of Midnight Sun Brewing Company, says there’s a lot of science that goes into brewing and local breweries require a lot of resources, like water. Not only that, but from start to finish a brewery needs boiler and refrigeration systems, plumbing, welding and lab work. Then th
  
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• Anchorage man indicted Wednesday for sexual abuse of 8-year-old

  13-10-2016 19:51
  
  A grand jury in Anchorage on Wednesday indicted a man for allegedly exposing himself and sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy.
  According to a Thursday morning press release from the attorney general’s office, 41-year-old Jeremy Ogle was indicted on a single charge of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, a felony.
  Several juveniles reported to the Anchorage police on July 26 that a man had “exposed himself” near the Boys and Girls Club on Muldoon Road, the release states. The An
  
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• Bob Dylan, Titan Of American Music, Wins 2016 Nobel Prize In Literature

  13-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The prolific musician is the first Nobel winner to have forged a career primarily as a singer-songwriter. What’s more, he’s also the first American to have won the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American claimed the prize.
  Dylan earned the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” according to the citation by the Swed
  
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• Gourmet ganja? Marijuana dining is a growing industry

  13-10-2016 18:12
  
  Marijuana legalization has chefs trying out pot pairings, and pot growers seeking new aromas and flavors. Colorado now has a few private dinners where guests can try different flavors of marijuana and see how they match with food.
  But legal obstacles remain for businesses that want to combine marijuana and dining, even in legal weed states. Ballot measures being considered this fall could change that, though.
  Denver voters are weighing a proposal to allow marijuana use at some bars and restauran
  
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• Tackling flag football is not as hard as you think

  13-10-2016 08:29
  
  Dimond High School hosted Service High School in quarterfinal flag football action. The sport is now in its 12th season in Anchorage schools.
  The level of play continues to improve, impressing many, including Dimond’s head coach, Kathleen Navarre.
  “The girls that can throw, and pass and run, they’re very skilled players,” Navarre said. “It’s a lot of fun if you haven’t watched a game.”
  The game resembles the one most of us watch, with a few ch
  
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• Anchorage School District offers free flu shots for students

  13-10-2016 05:51
  
  The Anchorage School District is offering a number of opportunities for kids to get this year’s flu vaccination for free.
  “Flu season is already ripping through Anchorage schools,” school officials said in a statement Wednesday. “Even healthy children and adults can get flu and give it to fragile babies and elderly people.”
  Parents and legal guardians will need to fill out a vaccine consent form and bring it with them whe
  
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• A ton of junk removed from Togiak National Wildlife Refuge

  13-10-2016 05:08
  
  Kara Hilwig, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge pilot and biologistCredit via flickr Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
  This summer a clean-up effort in Togiak National Wildlife Refuge removed more than a ton of junk from the area. Jennifer Johnston was the Student Conservation Association Directorate Fellow this summer, and she helped coordinate the effort.
  They focused their efforts on several sites that were full of what she describes as, “the left overs from old hunting camps
  
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• Officers help connect Anchorage homeless to community services

  13-10-2016 05:02
  
  It’s not a place Ezra Willson thought he’d end up: Living in a camper in the woods in a Debarr Road neighborhood.
  “It’s pretty devastating,” he said. “I have a 2-year-old, 6-year-old and 7-year-old and I have nowhere to put them.”
  Willson was in jail and when he got out he’d lost his house and custody of his kids. He’s been trying to find a new place to live for the past year.
  “It’s hard,” Willson said. “I’ve bee
  
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• US Army Alaska 10-Miler team members set records

  13-10-2016 04:49
  
  Alaska’s soldiers are proved they’re among the best of the best after tackling the U.S. Army 10-Miler run in Washington, D.C. over the weekend.
  The 14 members of the US Army Alaska team raced with 35,000 other runners through the streets of our nation’s capitol on Sunday. Spc. Chelsea Scheuerman was among them. She was the only woman racing for Alaska and set a personal best time.
  “I just kept telling myself I had a couple more miles until I saw my husband and my baby and
  
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• Whale bones airlifted from beach at Kincaid Park

  13-10-2016 04:40
  
  Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks returned to the beach below Kincaid Park on Wednesday to collect the remaining bones of a humpback whale that washed ashore in July.
  It was their second trip to the site. Aren Gunderson, mammal curator at UAF’s Museum of the North, said lighter bones were carried from the beach in September. Researchers and volunteers made 45 trips up a 200-foot bluff to get them to the parking lot near the motocross track, where the bones were then
  
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• Red Carpet Concert: Gabby George-Frank

  13-10-2016 03:28 via ktoo.org
  
  The latest Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concert video features Gabby George-Frank of Juneau. She performs her orginal song in a studio shared by Rico Worl and Christy NaMee Eriksen, who curated the eight-part series.The Celebration Sessions Red Carpet Concerts are a collaboration between KTOO, Kindred Post and Trickster Company. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with David Sumiq Russell-Jensen, Chantil Dukart and  Lily Hope.
  
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• Supreme Court surprise: Westlake winner in District 40

  13-10-2016 03:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Members of the Alaska Supreme Court today reversed the lower court’s decision and reinstated Dean Westlake as the winner of the Democratic primary in House District 40. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz)
   
  The Alaska Supreme Court has reinstated Dean Westlake as the winner of the Democratic primary in House District 40, which covers the North Slope and Northwest Arctic.
  The decision came in a ruling late this afternoon.
  It reversed a lower court ruling last week which had tippe
  
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• New Southeast atlas identifies valuable habitat and threats

  13-10-2016 03:17 via ktoo.org
  
  (Photo courtesy USFWS/Katrina Mueller)
  Audubon Alaska recently released an atlas showing where the most valuable salmon streams and bird habitat are located in Southeast. It also identifies the biggest threats to those areas.
  Spread across 200 pages, the ecological atlas of the region includes a lot more than maps. Melanie Smith, the director of conservation science for Audubon Alaska, says the organization wanted to create something both policymakers and regular people could use.
  It follows in
  
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• Report: Two Women Say Donald Trump Inappropriately Touched Them

  13-10-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Wednesday in Lakeland, Fla. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
  After a video surfaced last week showing Donald Trump boasting in 2005 how he would kiss and grope women without consent, the GOP nominee insisted in Sunday’s presidential debate that it was just “locker room talk” and, pressed repeatedly by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, finally said that he had never actually taken the action he described.
  
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• Jury convicts Johansen of vehicle theft at Dillingham trial

  13-10-2016 02:29
  
  This Dodge truck was stolen early on Oct. 3, 2015, joyridden, and returned worse for the wear. DPD tracked a suspect, slow and steady, who was arrested months later and convicted of the theft at trial.Credit KDLG
  A jury of twelve handed down a guilty verdict Tuesday in the case of 23-year-old Ronald Johansen. Johansen was charged with stealing a Dodge truck in Dillingham a year ago, which was driven, wrecked, and totaled.
  Assistant district attorney Pamela Dale heaped praise on Dillingham Polic
  
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• KTVA’s 2016 Election Issues Survey

  13-10-2016 02:24
  
  In the weeks and months leading up to the 2016 general election, Alaskans have heard candidates’ views on the issues.
  Now, KTVA wants to hear from you. Where do you fall on the issues and how does that influence your vote?Take the survey below to let us know!
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• Anchorage conference brings light to troubles surrounding toxics in the Arctic

  13-10-2016 02:22
  
  In an effort to improve living conditions for Alaska youth, the Children’s Environmental Health Summit brought together tribal leaders, scientists, and a variety of healthcare specialists to discuss environmental pollutants posing a risk to Arctic communities.
  Hosted by Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the October 6th conference at Alaska Pacific University focused on health problems caused by exposure to chemicals.
  According to Environmental Health and Justice Program Director Viola Wag
  
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• Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Resigns Amid Scandal

  13-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Updated at 6:15pm ET with Wells Fargo statement.
  The chairman and chief executive of Wells Fargo & Co., John Stumpf, has resigned effective immediately in the aftermath of a scandal over the bank’s past practice of secretly selling services to unsuspecting customers.
  Stumpf will be replaced by President and Chief Operating Officer Timothy Sloan, long considered to be Stumpf’s eventual successor.
  Wells Fargo has been hammered in recent weeks by critics who say the bank unfairly to
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10-13-16

  13-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes will host
  We’ll get a preview of this week’s Evening at Egan presentation by Nina Chordas on Literary Scholarship in the Soviet Union;
  Matt Lillard will give us an update on Eaglecrest;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up!
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Thursday afternoon on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN. And available on demand via ktoo.org
  Tune in this Thursday evening at 7
  
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• House fire in Chefornak claims life of a priest

  13-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  About 100 miles southwest of Bethel, a man was killed by a house fire Wednesday morning in the community of Chefornak.
  Alaska State Troopers have tentatively identified the deceased as Theodore Kestler, 72, a priest who presided over a church in Saint Mary’s.
  Troopers received a report about 9:30 a.m. stating that a residence was engulfed in flames and Kestler had died in the fire, despite citizens’ efforts to save him. No other injuries have been reported.
  A deputy fire marshal
  
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• Haines Assembly debates stance on Juneau Access Road

  13-10-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A sign near Juneau’s Auke Bay Ferry Terminal points to the end of Glacier Highway. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  Ahead of Gov. Bill Walker’s visit to Haines this week, borough assembly members appear divided on one of the major issues bound to come up: the Juneau Access Road. Although in the past, the assembly has advocated for ferry reform over the road, the current assembly was divided on whether they should stick to that stance.
  Assembly member Margaret Friedenauer sta
  
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• Troopers: Man killed in Chefornak fire likely Jesuit priest

  13-10-2016 01:39
  
  Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks/Facebook
  ANCHORAGE — Officials have tentatively identified a St. Mary’s man as the victim of a fatal fire in Chefornak on Wednesday.
  Residents of Chefornak tried to save the man from the fire, which Alaska State Troopers state in an online dispatch was reported at 9:22 a.m.
  Troopers said the man is likely 72-year-old Theodore Kestler. The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks announced online that Kestler, a Jesuit priest, was the man killed in the fire.
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• Southeast weather: exceedingly beautiful and very unusual

  13-10-2016 01:08 via ktoo.org
  
  Boats lined up in Harris Harbor on a sunny, clear day Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 in downtown Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The weather has been beautiful in Southeast Alaska for two weeks straight.
  That is very unusual. September and October are normally the rainiest months in the region.
  Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with him regula
  
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• Man who died in Anchorage crash may have had medical issue

  13-10-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police say a man found dead in a traffic crash Tuesday may have had a medical problem.
  An autopsy has been ordered for the driver who crashed head on just before 5 p.m. in east Anchorage.
  Police say the man was driving a car south on Elmore Road and started making a right turn onto Dowling Road.
  Instead of completing the turn, the driver drove into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on with a sport utility vehicle.
  The driver of the car was taken to a hospital, where h
  
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• Cold Bay gets unexpected guests from diverted American Airlines flight

  13-10-2016 00:20
  
  Flight path of American Airlines 288. Courtesy FlightRadar24
  ANCHORAGE — American Airlines pilots diverted a Chicago-bound flight to Cold Bay on Wednesday, after they were alerted to a possible mechanical issue.
  Flight 288 was headed to Chicago O’Hare International Airport from Shanghai Pudong International Airport when an an indicator light in the cockpit reported a possible mechanical issue, a statement from American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein explained.
  The flight
  
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• American Airlines flight from Shanghai to Chicago makes emergency landing in Cold Bay

  13-10-2016 00:20
  
  Flight path of American Airlines 288. Courtesy FlightRadar24
  Last updated at 5:08 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12
  ANCHORAGE — American Airlines pilots diverted a Chicago-bound flight to Cold Bay on Wednesday, after they were alerted to a possible mechanical issue.
  Flight 288 was headed to Chicago O’Hare International Airport from Shanghai Pudong International Airport when an an indicator light in the cockpit reported a possible mechanical issue, a statement from American Ai
  
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• Summer cleanup effort removes junk from Togiak National Wildlife Refuge

  13-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Kara Hilwig, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge pilot and biologist (Photo by Alaska Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 FLICKR)
  This summer a cleanup effort in Togiak National Wildlife Refuge removed more than a ton of junk from the area.
  Jennifer Johnston was the Student Conservation Association Directorate Fellow this summer, and she helped coordinate the effort.
  They focused their efforts on several sites that were full of what she describes as, “the left overs
  
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• Protests disrupt pipelines across the West

  13-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The fight over transporting crude oil has spread across the West, with protesters disrupting pipelines on the U.S.-Canada border.
  Dozens have been arrested since Monday.
  The unrest, in communities from Minnesota to Washington state, is connected in each case to the ongoing battle over an oil pipeline under construction in North Dakota.
  Since it was approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the summer, more than a thousand people have protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline — s
  
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• Haines Assembly approves $130K Lutak Dock design contract

  13-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Conceptual design work on Haines’ Lutak Dock will move forward in the next couple months.
  The borough asked for proposals that will address both refurbishment and replacement of the dock.
  On Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly approved a $130,000 design contract with Anchorage-based R&M Engineering.
  R&M’s bid was one of six proposals the borough received.
  A committee made up of Public Facilities Director Brad Ryan, Assembly member Margaret Friedenauer, Harbormaster Shawn Bel
  
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