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• Hillary Clinton’s Path To Election Day: Plans, Luck And Self-Inflicted Wounds

  05-11-2016 23:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Hillary Clinton claims victory in the Democratic primary in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 7, 2016.
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  When it comes to Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the presidency, if she’s ultimately able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling it will be because a combination of good luck and better planning helped her overcome challenges, many of her own making.
  Donald Trump’s name is on the ballot, but Clinton’s biggest opponent may well have been
  
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• Donald Trump Has Brought On Countless Controversies In An Unlikely Campaign

  05-11-2016 23:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at his Iowa Caucus night gathering February 1, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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  When Donald Trump decided to run for president — after flirting with politics for many years, and gaining a following on the right for questioning President Obama’s birthplace — the real estate developer and businessman from Queens was dismissed and laughed at by political observers. Many largely wrote the whole thing off as a p
  
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• Police seek whereabouts of missing Anchorage man

  05-11-2016 21:58
  
  Li'o TauiliiliCourtesy Richelle Lyken
  An Anchorage man is still missing a week after he was last seen, his family says.
  The Anchorage Police Department issued an alert on Nov. 1 about 25-year-old Li’o Tauiliili’s disappearance. The alert said he was last seen leaving his Anchorage home at 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 29.
  “Li’o indicated to his girlfriend that he was riding out to Wasilla with a friend and would be home later that evening,” police said, adding that the f
  
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• Panel to consider renaming Interior river with Gwich’in name

  05-11-2016 21:29
  
  The Alaska Historical Commission has been asked to consider renaming a 344-mile river in Alaska’s Interior from Birch Creek to its Gwich’in name.
  The commission also is expected to take up whether to rename one of the river’s side channels when it meets Nov. 16.
  The Fairbanks Daily News reports that Birch Creek flows from near Central to the Yukon River, with 110 miles in its upper section designated as a federal wild and scenic river.
  Under the proposals, the main body of Birc
  
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• Sterling teen killed in K-Beach Road crash, troopers say

  05-11-2016 21:06
  
  A late-night crash on the Kenai Peninsula Wednesday claimed the life of 17-year-old Mykha Slater, Alaska State Troopers said in an online dispatch Saturday.
  The single-vehicle crash was reported near mile 1 of Kalifornsky Beach Road around 11 p.m., troopers wrote.
  Slater was a passenger in a 2003 Ford pickup driven by 34-year-old Johnna Angleton. Troopers said Angleton lost control of the truck, which crashed into a ditch.
  Angleton and another passenger were injured, but troopers said their inju
  
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• NANA announces leadership consolidation, Westlake to take over for Sandvik

  05-11-2016 20:31
  
  The NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NRC) and NANA Development Corporation (NDC) will come together under consolidated leadership, the NANA Regional Board of Directors announced Friday. The change means Helvi Sandvick will no longer be president of the NDC.
  NRC president and CEO Wayne Westlake will assumed oversight of NDC, effective immediately, a statement explained.
  “The Board determined it was time to create stronger alignment between NRC and NDC with one leader,” board chair Lin
  
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• Basketball tournament to help raise money for Lorrie Clifford

  05-11-2016 19:45
  
  A former Alaska basketball star is getting help from the community that supported her in high school to get her back on her feet.
  Lorrie Clifford played basketball at Chugiak High School before she became a member of the U.S. Rugby Team. Once a Mustang, always a Mustang.
  Chugiak will host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in December for Clifford, as she continues to recover in a Denver-area hospital from life-threatening injuries in a crash in Hawaii back in August.
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• ‘100Stone’ project finds new home at APU

  05-11-2016 06:47
  
  A well-known Anchorage art project has been installed in a new location, but the message is the same — to recognize people are suffering and not to isolate them in their pain.
  Thousands of people went to see the statues created by artist Sarah Davies for her, “100Stone” project when they were at Point Woronzof last year. The statues, which are body casts of real Alaskans, were taken down this spring.
  Davies has put the remaining 43 of the original 85 statues in front of th
  
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• High school swimming and diving championship underway in Juneau

  05-11-2016 06:28
  
  Alaska’s best high school divers and swimmers are in Juneau this weekend for the 2016 ASAA Swim and Dive State Championship.
  The tournament is being held the Dimond Park Aquatic Center. Most of the time Anchorage hosts the tournament, but once every three years the capital city hosts the meet. Dimond Park has one of Alaska’s two eight-lane pool needed for the competition — Bartlett High School has the other.
  The semifinal portion of the diving competition wr
  
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• Municipality of Anchorage works to clarify marijuana zoning rules

  05-11-2016 05:19
  
  The Anchorage Assembly is considering changing the way it measures the distance between marijuana businesses and protected land uses, such as schools, playgrounds and churches.
  At the corner of Spenard Road and 34th Avenue, Babette Miller wants to turn her current business into a pot shop called Doobie Depot.
  “We went through the whole process of filling out all the paper work, submitting everything for the license and then we started measuring distance and found that we are about 10 feet
  
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• Behind the ballot: A look at Ballot Measures 1 and 2

  05-11-2016 04:39
  
  When voters head to the polls, they’ll find more than decide on more than candidates — there are also two ballot measures up for consideration. Here’s a breakdown of what each one does, and opinions from those who support or oppose them.
  Ballot Measure One: Linking PFD registration to voter registration
  Here’s how it works: If someone is eligible to vote when applying for their Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, they’ll automatically be registe
  
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• After 45 years, downtown gallery Artique will close its doors

  05-11-2016 03:09
  
  Heather Hintze / KTVA Heather Hintze / KTVA
  Owning an art gallery was a beautiful way for Tennys Owens to make a living.
  “I call it soul food. It just makes you feel good. It brings you up, perks you up, enlightens your life,” she said.
  That’s why she dedicated 45 years of her life to supporting artists around the state.
  Owens started selling art out of her basement to corporations flooding to Alaska during the oil boom. She opened Artique in downtown Anchorage in 1971.
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• In Alaska, energy policy is key issue for some voters

  05-11-2016 03:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Don Kubley chats with guests during a meet-and-greet with U.S. Senate candidate Lisa Murkowski on Oct. 17,  in Juneau. Kubley is supporting Donald Trump for President and says energy policy and Alaska’s future weighed heavily in that decision. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Alaska’s energy future, and it’s economic one are inseparably linked.  
  But which presidential candidate can best help the state navigate that future? That depends on w
  
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• State, Native Corps ask U.S. Supreme Court to enter fray over polar bear habitat

  05-11-2016 02:36 via ktoo.org
  
  A polar bear mother watches carefully with her cubs along her side along the Beaufort Sea. (Photo courtesy USFWS)
  The State of Alaska and a dozen Native organizations have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a ruling that designated vast swaths of coastal Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears.
  In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set aside more than 187,000 square miles of land and water — an area larger than California — as critical polar
  
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• Walker announces he has treatable prostate cancer, will have surgery

  05-11-2016 01:49 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Bill Walker announced he has treatable prostate cancer and will have surgery. (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Gov. Bill Walker announced Friday that he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Following his doctor’s advice, he will have surgery in December to remove it.
  Walker said the cancer is “certainly treatable. It was found not as a result of any particular symptoms, just regular testing, which I certainly encourage others to do.”
  Walker sai
  
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• People Mover wants feedback on bus system redesign

  05-11-2016 01:44
  
  People Mover is asking for community feedback on the second phase of its Anchorage bus system overhaul.
  According to a press release Friday, the implementation phase is the next step in the “completely redesigned” transit system.
  The city launched Anchorage Talks Transit earlier this year, asking residents what their priorities were for the bus system. With that information, they’ve developed two new concepts for the bus routes and they’re seeking feed
  
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• AST: Naked burglar arrested in Wasilla

  05-11-2016 01:15
  
  A naked man was arrested Friday for attempting to break into a house and exposing himself to a woman and her children, according to Alaska State Troopers (AST).
  In a dispatch from the state agency, troopers wrote that they were notified of the incident on Engstrom Road at 10:29 a.m. Friday.
  Investigators discovered 39-year-old Jesse Smart, of Wasilla, entered the home and exposed himself to the woman and her toddler children.
  When troopers contacted Smart, he was completely nude, troopers said.
  
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• Group puts abortion ruling at center of Alaska judicial election

  05-11-2016 00:33
  
  An Alaska organization that says it works to advance biblical principles is encouraging voters to remove two state Supreme Court justices based on their decisions in an abortion case.
  Alaska Public Radio Network reports justices Joel Bolger and Peter Maassen are facing judicial retention elections and voters will decide their fate Nov. 8.
  Alaska Family Action President Jim Minnery says people shouldn’t support the justices because they voted to strike down a state law requiring parental no
  
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• Quinhagak man faces charge of conspiracy misconduct in connection to Bethel raid

  05-11-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A Quinhagak man was arraigned on charges Thursday in connection to a raid on a Bethel home, where law enforcement seized large amounts of heroin and cocaine.
  Albert R. Cleveland was arrested up for violating his parole during the raid in October.
  Cleveland was on parole for third-degree assault and has, what Jared Karr of the District Attorney’s office called, “an extensive criminal history” that includes 10 previous convictions.
  Cleveland now faces a c
  
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