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• Recipe Box: Apple Doughnuts

  25-10-2016 23:02
  
  The doughnut — in all its glory of icings, toppings and drizzles — is a breakfast staple. But Anchorage mom and blogger Lesleigh Frank recently took it one step further for her daughter’s third birthday.
  “I made pumpkin donuts and stacked them up on a big cake plate and then covered it in cream cheese frosting,” Frank said.
  In this week’s Recipe Box, Frank shares her recipe for homemade doughnuts. Instead of deep frying the batter, she uses the oven.
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• Why carve pumpkins when you can use power tools?

  25-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Makerspace members and pumpkin carvers practiced cutting October gourds Monday night into Halloween jack-o’-lanterns and other festive scenes.
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/102516-pumpkin-long.wavGrace Amundsen was elbow-deep, scraping gourd guts out from her own personal pumpkin.
  The group’s events coordinator was one of seven people using the Lemon Creek workshop dedicated to inventing, making and crafting.
  Some people were drawing with permanent marker.
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• Bethel police investigate body found in home; no foul play suspected

  25-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The body of a young woman found dead in a Bethel home Monday will be sent to Anchorage for an autopsy.
  No foul play is suspected in the death of Deanna (Michaels) Pete, 33, of Bethel, according to a news release published on social media by the Bethel Police Department.
  Bethel police received a call of an unresponsive person around Bethel’s Atsaq Street about noon Monday.
  The investigation continues, and police are asking that anyone with information that might be
  
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• UN expert: Junk food is a human rights concern

  25-10-2016 22:52
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A U.N. expert says junk food is a human rights concern.
  Hilal Elver said Tuesday the rise of industrial food production combined with trade liberalization has allowed large corporations to flood the global market with cheap, nutrient-poor foods that force poor people to choose between economic viability and nutrition, effectively violating their right to adequate food.
  “Within the human rights framework, states are obliged to ensure effective measures to regulat
  
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• Man indicted for August machete attack in Anchorage

  25-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A man was indicted last week by an Anchorage grand jury for allegedly attacking a woman with a machete, according to a Department of Law news release.
  Jonathan Anaruk, 19, faces one count of first-degree attempted murder, one count of first-degree assault, one count of second-degree assault, and two counts of third-degree assault.
  Police responded to the Aug. 18 incident near Anchorage’s Valley of the Moon Park and made contact with a woman covered in blood.
  Officers observed dee
  
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• Indians or Cubs, the World Series will put an end to one team’s drought

  25-10-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The World Series opens Tuesday night between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs — essentially a matchup of long-suffering vs. longer-suffering.
  You can watch coverage of Game 1 in Cleveland starting at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
  The Indians last won a World Series in 1948, and the Cubs haven’t won since 1908. Fans and sportswriters are positively buzzing with excitement.
  “Most of us have never lived on a planet where one of those teams is the champion of the baseball world,&rdqu
  
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• Attempting to woo Latino voters, Marco Rubio gets booed at Orlando festival

  25-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Florida Sen. Marco Rubio got booed off a stage in Orlando on Sunday by a crowd that was overwhelmingly Latino.
  It happened at Calle Orange, a street festival in downtown Orlando geared toward the city’s large Puerto Rican community. The icy reception was an indication of the challenges that Rubio, a Republican of Cuban heritage, has faced in locking down support from Latinos in Florida as the state’s Latino electorate has begun to shift to the left.
  Some Latinos, including several pe
  
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• Cancer Bites: Helping cancer patients get the nutrition they need

  25-10-2016 20:58
  
  One of the biggest struggles for cancer patients is finding an appetite, as many patients just aren’t hungry.
  Starting this week, a free cooking series called Cancer Bites kicks off in an effort to help patients get the nutrition and strength they need to battle cancer.
  It’s being put on by Anchorage and Valley Radiation Therapy Centers.
  Dietician Brisa Alegria will discuss the benefits of some ingredients, have recipes on hand and a meal prepared for attendees.
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• We’ve seen this election before, in classic movies

  25-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Andy Griffith as a pre-reality TV star turned populist in A Face in the Crowd. (Photo courtesy of The Kobal Collection / Warner Bros)
  We keep hearing that this election is like no other, but when I watch old movies, I often hear echoes of what’s going on in the campaign.
  The guy who opines in A Face in the Crowd (1957), say, that in the then-new age of television, “instead of long-winded public debates, people want capsule slogans.”
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• Anchorage police respond to vehicle versus pedestrian hit-and-run

  25-10-2016 19:13
  
  The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is asking for help locating the driver of a sedan involved in a midtown Anchorage hit-and-run.According to APD, the collision was reported at 8:53 a.m., at A Street and Benson Boulevard. The vehicle ran a red light and struck the pedestrian, who had the right of way, police said.The driver fled the scene and headed east on Benson Boulevard.The pedestrian had not life-threatening injuries and was evaluated by the emergency responders, APD wrote in a release.
  
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• Simplified study aims to quickly test a long-shot ALS treatment

  25-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Researchers have launched an innovative medical experiment that’s designed to provide quick answers while meeting the needs of patients, rather than drug companies.
  Traditional studies can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and can take many years. But patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease don’t have the time to wait. This progressive muscle-wasting disease is usually fatal within a few years.
  Scientists in an active online patient community id
  
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• Kongiginak tribal police officer charged with assault after drinking confiscated alcohol

  25-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A tribal police officer from Kongiginak was charged with two counts of assault after he allegedly had a party with confiscated alcohol from the police station.
  Scott Hill, 25, a tribal police officer from Kongiginak, fought with Derek Black, 26, from Kongiginak while they were drinking alcohol that Hill took from the Tribal Police Station, according to a trooper dispatch.
  Black had to be treated at the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel for injuries sustained during
  
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• Troopers rescue stranded campers after river freezes

  25-10-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Three hunters were stranded at their campsite after the river they used to get there froze over while they were camping.
  Lester Pavila, 27, Gerrett Kashatok, 32, and Eugene Chadwick, 36, were stranded at their camp and had to be rescued, according to a Trooper dispatch.
  All of the men were from the village of Kipnuk.
  The river they traveled to get to their campsite froze over, and they were no longer able to use their boat.
  State Troopers picked them up by heli
  
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• APD: Robbers hit 2 Holiday Gas Stations

  25-10-2016 17:50
  
  Two early morning robberies at Anchorage Holiday Gas Stations are under investigation.
  The first robbery took place a 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at a gas station on Huffman Road, according to a release from the Anchorage Police Department (APD).
  Police were told two armed males, wearing black clothing and masks, entered the store with guns and demanded money, as well as cigarettes, from an employee. Police said they believe the suspects fled in a vehicle. A K9 search was done in the a
  
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• Alaska looks to boost employment with grant money

  25-10-2016 16:52
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The state of Alaska has received a $1 million grant to help bolster local employment within the state’s health care and aviation industries.
  The Alaska Public Radio Network reports (http://bit.ly/2dR6RKw ) the U.S. Department of Labor grant will support apprenticeship programs, which the state hopes will encourage more companies to hire Alaska residents.
  Ed Flanagan with the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development says the programs, which combine
  
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• Police: No suspects yet in late-night Anchorage homicide

  25-10-2016 10:25
  
  A male victim has died as a result of a shooting Monday night, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
  Multiple people called 911 just before 11 p.m. to report hearing shots fired in the area of Elm Street and Bluff Drive, police said in a statement.
  When police arrived in the area, they found the victim, who had been shot, outside a home on the 800 block of Elm Street.
  “He was declared deceased at the scene,” police wrote. “The death is being investigated as a homicide.&
  
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• Police identify man killed in Government Hill homicide

  25-10-2016 10:25
  
  Last updated at 10:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25
  The Anchorage Police Department (APD) has released the identity of a 29-year-old man who was shot and killed in Government Hill, late-Monday night, as Ian Alex Bobich.
  Bobich’s next of kin has been notified.
  In an updated release from police Tuesday morning, the agency said no arrests had been made.
  Just before 11 p.m., Monday police dispatch received several calls from people in the area reporting gunshots near Elm Street and East Bluff Drive
  
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• APD: Suspect in custody following shooting at Holiday gas station

  25-10-2016 09:23
  
  Last updated at 11:57 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24
  The Anchorage Police Department says someone has been hospitalized and another person is in custody following a shooting Monday night.
  The shooting occurred at the Holiday gas station near the intersection of E. 68th Avenue and Lake Otis Parkway, police said in a statement. It was reported just before 10:30 p.m., according to police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro.
  “One victim has been transported to a local hospital in critical condition
  
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• APD: Man remains in critical condition after late-night Holiday shooting

  25-10-2016 09:23
  
  Last updated at 10:18 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25
  The Anchorage Police Department has interviewed the man who shot and critically injured another man outside of a Holiday Gas Station on Lake Otis Parkway, near East 68th Avenue, but police have not pressed charges, the department said.
  In an update from the department Tuesday morning, they said the investigation is ongoing.
  The man who was shot remains in critical condition.
  APD said the men knew each other and had gotten into a verbal altercation p
  
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• Napaskiak celebrates opening its new school with the hope for a stronger community

  25-10-2016 08:11
  
  Napaskiak's new school will serve students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The new school opened on October 19, 2016Credit Celina Angaiak / LKSD
  This story originated from KYUK Public Media and was republished with permission.
  BETHEL — In rural Alaska villages, the school is often the center of community life. It’s not only the place where children go day after day to learn, play sports, and make friends. It’s where the community comes together for daily activi
  
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• Parents depend on Camp Fire to fill childcare void

  25-10-2016 07:55
  
  Before the bell rang for morning classes at Rogers Park Elementary School, third-grader Sabrina Mason had already been at school for an hour.
  She’s the fourth and final kid in her family to attend the Camp Fire before-school program.
  “I like that I get to hang out with friends that aren’t in my class and I like that everyone is nice to each other,” Sabrina said.
  There are about 30 before- and after-school sites for about 1,500 kids. For Ella Ede, Sabrina’s mother, t
  
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• Researchers link virus to Alaska birds with deformed beaks

  25-10-2016 07:29
  
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  Researchers in California and Alaska are hoping they’ve found what’s causing beaks of some bird species to grow twice as fast a normal.
  The disease is called avian keratin disorder. Affected birds grow beaks that are freakishly long and that sometimes curve up or down.
  Birds with the disease find it difficult to feed and preen. It has affected 6.5 percent of southcentral Alaska’s black-capped chickadees and 17 percent of
  
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• District attorney: Bethel police withheld evidence, witness in attempted murder case

  25-10-2016 07:19
  
  This story originated from KYUK Public Media and was republished with permission.
  BETHEL — The state is seeking a lesser assault charge in the case against Daniel Misner, who allegedly fired shots at a man in a residential neighborhood of Bethel earlier this year. Evidence that could have supported a charge of attempted murder was never submitted to the district attorney for his case.
  Gene Peltola, who witnessed the shooting, says Misner’s intent was clearly to kill his vic
  
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• Behind the Ballot: Don Young, Alaska’s longest-serving Congressman

  25-10-2016 06:17
  
  After 43 years as Alaska’s lone voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, Don Young says he’s ready for another round in Congress.
  “I’ve got a reputation — if I say it’s good for Alaska, I do my homework, I go to the floor, they will in fact vote with me,” Young said of his career — and he has the credit to back him up.
  Last year, The Washington Post named him the fifth most effective Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, when it comes
  
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• Alaska Republican Party claims Joe Miller violated election laws

  25-10-2016 06:05
  
  The Alaska Republican Party chairman announced a complaint Monday against former party member Joe Miller, saying he violated election laws while running for U.S. Senate as a Libertarian.
  Chairman Tuckerman Babcock’s complaint to the Office of General Counsel lists a number of alleged violations, including Miller’s use of his news website Restoring Liberty as a campaign site. Babcock also alleged that Miller accepted illegal contributions and attempted to trick voters into t
  
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• Volunteers donate more than a thousand pairs of winter boots to city’s needy

  25-10-2016 05:50
  
  As temperatures drop, most of us begin digging out our winter clothing, but for some people, finding the gear to stay warm and dry isn’t easy. More than 300 people got a boost in that direction on Monday when they received new, warm winter boots.
  The boots were distributed at Bean’s Cafe, donated by the Las Vegas-based charity SAVEarth.
  Mike Baumbach got a pair. Baumbach said he walks about 20 miles every day, from Bean’s to a part time job in Spenard, around town, then ba
  
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• $50k of wine, coins stolen from garage in latest misfortune for Anchorage restaurateur

  25-10-2016 05:35
  
  It has been a tough year for Van Hale.
  The well-known owner of Marx Bros. Café and Van’s Dive Bar lost his mother in May. On his way home from her memorial service, his home caught fire. He moved to a new house with his wife, where her car was broken into twice. His car was stolen twice. Finally, the weekend of Oct. 16, his downtown Anchorage garage was burglarized.
  “I couldn’t believe it after everything else happened,” Hale said outside the garage Monday.
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• Troopers: Tribal police officer arrested for evidence theft and assault

  25-10-2016 04:59
  
  Alaska State Troopers say they arrested a tribal police officer (TPO) after he stole alcohol being held as evidence, drank it and then fought a man, putting him in the hospital.
  Troopers were first called to the village of Kongiganak around 5 p.m. on Thursday to investigate a fight, according to an online dispatch.
  One of the men involved in the fight, 26-year-old Derek Black, was being treated at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation hospital for injuries he suffered during the fight
  
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• Alaska GOP accuses Joe Miller of campaign finance violations

  25-10-2016 03:50 via ktoo.org
  
  Joe Miller, with family in front row on stage. (Photo by Liz Ruskin/APRN)
  The Alaska Republican Party has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller.
  The GOP alleges Miller is misusing campaign dollars to inflate his real level of support.
  The five-page complaint submitted Monday alleges Miller has made numerous violations of federal campaign finance laws — the majority connected to using his for-profit conservative
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10-25-16

  25-10-2016 02:25 via ktoo.org
  
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll find out about this weekend’s Community Reading of the new Harry Potter play;
  Lauren Anderson, from the Treadwell Ice Arena, and Saralyn Tabatchnik, from AWARE, will be here to discuss Wednesday’s Purple Skate;
  We’ll talk with activist/musician Emmanuel Jal;
  And we’ll find out about Elementary School Instructional Coaches.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-News
  
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• With testing underway, marijuana shops prepare to open in Alaska

  25-10-2016 02:23
  
  Shannon Ballard/KTVAIt’s been almost two years since Alaskans voted to legalize marijuana, but it wasn’t until Monday morning that the industry took a crucial step forward. The first cannabis testing facility is now up and running.
  CannTest, LLC is nestled in Ship Creek. For its three-man staff, breaking in their instruments feels like a milestone.
  By 10:30 a.m., the business had already taken in 15 samples from two cultivators on the Kenai Peninsula — Greatland
  
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• Investigators say Jane Doe found in Wisconsin may have lived in Alaska

  25-10-2016 01:51
  
  Jane Doe, as rendered by forensic artistsNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children/National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
  “In the early morning of July 21, 1999 a man walking his dog along a rural road in Racine County, Wisconsin was the first person to find a young female, dead, left alone, along the edge of a cornfield.” –National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
  This is the scene described in a plea from the National Center for M
  
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• Absentee and early voting opens for general election

  25-10-2016 01:49 via ktoo.org
  
  Absentee and early in-person voting is now open in Alaska for the Nov. 8 general election. Two polling stations are open in the capital city.
  Juneau residents can cast their votes at the State Office Building and at the Alaska Division of Elections’s regional office in the Mendenhall Mall Annex weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  Some weekend hours are also available Nov. 5 and 6 at the mall site.
  
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• Trump, down in the polls, tells supporters to ignore ‘phony polls’

  25-10-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A few weeks ago, Donald Trump told a New Hampshire crowd he loves to cite the polls — when he is ahead.
  “When we do badly, I don’t know about polls, right? But when we’re doing well, I know about polls,” Trump said in Sandown, N.H., on Oct. 6. Since then, Trump has fallen from about 4 points behind Hillary Clinton nationally, to about 6 points. But his positioning in battleground states that will determine which candidate gets to 270 electoral votes has become much
  
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• Goat hunters airlifted off Porcupine Peak

  25-10-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted three men off of a mountain near Haines on Saturday, following a successful goat hunt.
  Bret Bohn, 29, a hunting guide from Anchorage, was facilitating the hunt.
  According to a dispatch from the state troopers, Bohn, Chris Kilbane, 58, of Minnesota, and Reto Widmer, 33, of Switzerland were on their way down Porcupine Peak when Bohn slipped and broke his leg.
  Porcupine Peak is about 30 miles outside of Haines, near the Canadian border.
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• Court ruling keeps bearded seals on Endangered Species List

  25-10-2016 00:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Bearded Seal Pup. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
  An appeals court today upheld a federal decision to list a species of ice seals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
  The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision that threw out the listing.
  The National Marine Fisheries Service added two Arctic populations of bearded seals to the Endangered Species list in 2012, in part because the sea ice they depend on is rapidly disappearing due to climate change.
  Groups including the Alas
  
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• Kasilof man dies in single-vehicle weekend crash

  25-10-2016 00:09 via ktoo.org
  
  KASILOF — A 26-year-old man died in a weekend crash near Kasilof on the Kenai Peninsula.
  Troopers at 11:40 p.m. Saturday took a call of a crashed vehicle at Mile 1 Kalifornsky Beach Road.
  Troopers arrived at the scene 13 minutes later to find the vehicle unoccupied, but Bill Duncan located unconscious and not breathing 50 feet away.
  He could not be revived. Central Emergency Services medics pronounced Duncan dead shortly after midnight Sunday.
  Alcohol was a factor in the crash, T
  
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• Advisory committee looks at new subsistence regulation in Bethel

  25-10-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Central Bering Sea Advisory Committee will hold public meetings in Bethel Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss a range of fisheries related topics.http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kyuk/audio/2016/10/fish_mixdown.mp3One of those topics is Tier 2 Fisheries Management, which seeks to define subsistence users based on need.
  The meetings will take place at the Bethel Fish and Game office this week.
  For more information on other topics and specific times, visit the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s webs
  
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