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• APD: Dead body discovered in unlocked vehicle Wednesday morning

  16-11-2016 23:11
  
  An Anchorage man discovered a dead body inside his unlocked vehicle Wednesday morning, according to Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Renee Oistad.
  The man told police he found a woman inside his vehicle around 8:50 a.m. and he believed she was dead.
  Oistad said police responded to the Fairview neighborhood where the vehicle had been parked, near Karluk Street and East Eighth Avenue, and discovered the body inside the man’s Chevrolet pickup truck.
  “There was nothing
  
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• NOAA: Iliamna Lake seals don’t warrant special protection

  16-11-2016 22:51
  
  A federal agency has determined that Pacific harbor seals in Iliamna Lake do not warrant protection as an endangered or threatened species.
  The Center for Biological Diversity had sought the petition under the Endangered Species Act four years ago.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries said in a Wednesday release that the seals do not constitute a species as defined by the act, and don’t meet the criteria for listing.
  The center had argued the seals were distinct fr
  
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• Medical Myth: The unforeseen injures from ice

  16-11-2016 22:30
  
  How many times have you shrugged off getting hurt, only to wake up days later with an injury somewhere else? A slip on ice could cause injuries somewhere else on your body, according to Dr. Caleb Craig.
  Some injuries, like a break or fracture, are noticed right away. Other symptoms, like swelling and lingering pain can sometimes take more than five days to manifest. If that happens, Craig recommends you get it checked out.
  If you fall, Craig says it’s not necessarily a bad thing to br
  
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• Governor Walker names new chief of staff

  16-11-2016 22:15
  
  Scott KendallPhoto provided by the governor's office.
  Gov. Bill Walker has named a new chief of staff.
  Scott Kendall will take over for Jim Whitaker starting Dec. 2.
  Kendall is an attorney who served as a managing director for the Black Rock Group, which provides campaign consulting, communications and other services.
  In a release, Walker said Whitaker will become senior adviser on major projects and continue working on efforts including a project aiming to bring natural gas to Interior Alaska
  
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• Workforce Wednesday: Apprenticeships in Alaska

  16-11-2016 21:42
  
  Did you know there are over 300 apprenticeship programs right here in Alaska? If you’re looking to earn while you learn, an apprenticeship could be right up your alley.
  You’ll need to know exactly which career or industry you want to work in. There are careers in mining, gas, oil, healthcare and more.
  “You just don’t just show up on the doorstep of apprenticeship unprepared,” said Gerry Andrews, who works with the Department of Labor.
  It’s a good ide
  
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• Anchorage mom advocates for car seat safety after spotting unbuckled kids

  16-11-2016 20:29
  
  What started out as a normal day of running errands for Dr. Jessica Dachowski took a turn when she stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Old Seward Highway and Dimond Boulevard in South Anchorage.
  In the car next to her were two small children, both appearing to be unbuckled with one holding onto the driver’s-seat headrest. Missing from the backseat were child safety seats of some sort, she says.
  “It sparked in me just an anxiety,” said Dachowski, who
  
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• Wood energy grants again offered in Alaska

  16-11-2016 20:23 via ktoo.org
  
  Andrew Haden of Wisewood, Inc., a Portland-based design firm, explains how the Ketchikan Airport’s biomass boiler works as it begins running in June 2016. It was partially funded by a U.S. Forest Service wood innovation grant. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The U.S. Forest Service is offering another round of grants promoting wood-energy projects in Alaska.
  Earlier grants have helped design boilers and plan wood-pellet mills in Southeast and Interior communities.
  Forest Service Wood Innovati
  
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• Who was James Dale Ritchie?

  16-11-2016 19:00
  
  James Dale Ritchie wasn’t on the Anchorage Police Department’s radar. It wasn’t until he came in contact with APD by happenstance Saturday, when Ritchie shot at an officer responding to a theft. Officers fired back, killing him.
  What police detectives found as they investigated the scene, turned out to be a major break in their ongoing investigation into several unsolved homicides. APD says ballistic evidence proves the gun Ritchie used is the same gun used
  
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• Jury deadlocked in Bethel smoking trial

  16-11-2016 16:51
  
  After more than three weeks, a Bethel Superior Court jury cannot decide whether or not a tobacco company misled a Pilot Station man about the harmful effects of smoking.
  KYUK-AM reports that jury foreman Robert Sundown says jurors deadlocked after over whether Philip Morris USA was at fault for the death of Benjamin Frances.
  Francis died of lung cancer at age 52 in 2004 after a long history of smoking Marlboro Lights. Francis’ wife and children sued Philip Morris USA and its parent company
  
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• 2 arrested in assault of ‘Deadliest Catch’ star

  16-11-2016 08:43
  
  Police say two people accused of beating a star of the hit reality TV series “Deadliest Catch” over the weekend have been arrested.
  The Spokesman-Review reports 30-year-old Amanda Ritter and 29-year-old Jorel Fultz were arrested and booked into the Spokane County Jail Tuesday on suspicion of robbing Jake Harris.
  Everett Police Department says they received a report of a male victim of assault Saturday after Harris had been found alongside a road in Everett.
  He reportedly told police
  
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• Fairbanks honors slain officers, military personnel with memorial park

  16-11-2016 06:58
  
  With the recent death of a Fairbanks officer still fresh on Alaskans’ minds, the community of North Pole celebrated the unveiling of an archway that stands to welcome visitors to a park dedicated to fallen law enforcement officers and military personnel.
  The archway is dedicated to Alaska State Troopers Gabe Rich and Sgt. Scott Johnson, who were killed in the line of duty in Tanana in 2014. North Pole police Chief Steve Dutra said in an email that the memorial park the archway is a p
  
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• ‘Day of Action’ against Dakota Access Pipeline includes Anchorage protests

  16-11-2016 06:46
  
  People against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline called for a day of action and they got it. Around the country Tuesday, hundreds of protests took place against the giant oil pipeline being built in North Dakota. In Anchorage, protestors assembled in Town Square at noon.
  Close to 50 people marched from the square chanting “Water is life.”
  The protestors are standing in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota, which is protesting the pipeline being b
  
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• Kodiak teen filmmaker, film program honored by first lady

  16-11-2016 06:39
  
  On a warm, sunny day in Washington, D.C., Rafael Bitanga stared out the window of a bus headed to the White House.
  “I like how everywhere you go you can see the Washington Monument,” he said. “Like the North Star of Washington, D.C.”
  The 16-year-old was a long way from his home in Kodiak, Alaska, where he spends his summers making movies through the Baranov Museum’s Summer Film Intensive.
  “I like to improve not only myself but also my peers, since Kodiak is an
  
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• New evidence connecting homicide cases is a step toward closure for one victim’s friend

  16-11-2016 05:31
  
  Treyveonkindell Thompson, better known as Trey, lived at Carrie LeBaron’s home for a little over a year. She acted as a mentor for the 21-year-old and helped him take on new challenges, like hiking Flattop. It was large feat for Trey, who was afraid of heights.
  “He ran the whole way down,” LeBaron recalled.
  Trey was found dead on Bolin Street in East Anchorage on July 29. He’d been shot multiple times, and police said his bike had been stolen.
  On Tuesday, the Anchora
  
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• APD: Gun used to shoot officer linked to 5 summer homicides

  16-11-2016 04:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage Police Department Chief Chris Tolley addresses the media at the department’s West Anchorage training facility on Tuesday. (Photo by Josh Edge/Alaska Public Media)
  The Anchorage Police Department on Tuesday identified the two officers and suspect involved in a fatal weekend shooting, and police said the gun used by the suspect in Saturday’s shooting has now been linked to five Anchorage homicides.
  APD identified the suspect in Saturday morning’s shooting as 40-yea
  
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• Dakota Access pipeline protesters march in Anchorage

  16-11-2016 03:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Demonstrators march to the Anchorage 5th Avenue Mall to protest the Dakota Access pipeline project. (Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Alaskans joined protesters around the country Tuesday staging demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline project, including two in Anchorage.
  The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe objects to the project in North Dakota because they worry it will harm their water supply and disturb sacred sites. Their cause has drawn support from Native and environmenta
  
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• Juneau Afternoon-11-16-2016

  16-11-2016 03:01 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton hosts:
  Katrina Woolford of the Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum will be here to tell us about their annual meeting and guest speaker–UAF history professor Terrance Cole;Bill Merk will preview Woosh K’s first open mic of the 7th season;
  Theater at Latitude 58 will highlight their production of “White Christmas”;
  And we’ll get an update from Eaglecrest.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more,
  
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• Pet rescue appeals license revocation, continues to operate

  16-11-2016 02:29
  
  A facility that houses homeless animals has appealed the denial of their commercial facility license, an Anchorage Animal Care and Control spokeswoman confirmed.
  Coshok’s Canine Castle was denied its license by AACC in October after unsanitary conditions were discovered following the release of an undercover video recorded at the facility. Additionally, spokeswoman Laura Atwood said the AACC had received 67 complaints about the facility since 2007 — 47 of which were within
  
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• Juneau locals protest DAPL outside senators’ offices

  16-11-2016 01:46 via ktoo.org
  
  Locals in Juneau protest the Dakota Access Pipeline project outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan in Juneau, Nov. 15, 2016. (Photo courtesy Larry West)
  Protesters in downtown Juneau showed their solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribal nations on Tuesday. The Sioux are protesting construction of the massive Dakota Access pipeline project near the Missouri River and their ancestral lands.
  The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is located in North and
  
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• Police: 1 person dead, another in custody following shooting

  16-11-2016 01:43
  
  Anchorage police say they are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Tuesday afternoon. A suspect has been taken into custody, police said.
  In a statement, police said they found a deceased male when they responded to a report of a shooting in the area of 74th Avenue and Old Seward Highway just after 3 p.m.
  Less than 20 minutes later, police located a suspect and took them into custody, the statement explained.
  No further information was immediately available.
  This is a developing sto
  
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• Obama’s Alaska regulations could cling long into Trump’s term

  16-11-2016 01:35 via ktoo.org
  
  As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump said he’d liberate business by striking as much as 70 percent of federal regulations.
  Trump vowed to dump Obama-era policies and unleash the energy industry to produce more oil, gas and coal.
  It would seem like good times for natural resource extraction in Alaska, but Trump will find some policies easier to dismantle than others.
  President Barack Obama’s policies for Alaska are embedded in a variety of documents: executive orders, mem
  
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• Will Trump follow through on changing Denali’s name back?

  16-11-2016 01:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Denali. (Photo by Ned Rozell/UAF Geophysical Institute)
  President-elect Donald Trump made many a campaign promise during his run for the White House.
  Shutting down the Environmental Protection Agency and killing the Affordable Care Act were among them.
  One of Trump’s rhetorical pledges affects Alaskans specifically: his Twitter vow to re-name Denali.President Obama wants to change the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!
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• Trump’s election overshadows energy pipeline protests around the U.S.

  16-11-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Activists engaged in a national “day of action” Tuesday to protest the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline. Native American groups’ opposition to the project has gotten a lot of attention recently, but it’s just one of many pipeline battles going on across the country. And Donald Trump’s election and his stance in favor of fossil fuels are likely to mean those battles will continue.
  Pipelines have taken center stage in an intense fight over the nation’s e
  
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• Bethel Superior Court tobacco trial ends in hung jury

  16-11-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  After three-and-a-half weeks, the Bethel Superior Court trial over whether or not tobacco company Philip Morris misled a Pilot Station man about the harmful effects of smoking has ended in a hung jury.
  Jury foreman Robert Sundown said jurors deadlocked 8-4 on continuing deliberations.
  “We tried a dozen different occasions, asked a dozen different ways, encouraged each other to speak their minds, encouraged each other to come to a consensus based on their peers’ thought proc
  
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• GOP health insurance alternatives may wind up using penalties like the mandate

  16-11-2016 00:16 via ktoo.org
  
  The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that people have health insurance or pay a fine is one of the least popular provisions of the law, and one that Republicans have pledged to eliminate when they repeal and replace Obamacare.
  But take a look at some of the replacement proposals that are floating around and it becomes clear that the “individual mandate,” as it’s called, could still exist, but in another guise.
  First, though, the health law’s mandate doesn’t a
  
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• Nunapitchuk uses grant money to help emergency response

  16-11-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Nunapitchuk recently received a grant for $7,390 from the Rasmuson Foundation.
  Mayor Noah Wise says the village has spent the money on a brand new 500cc Honda ATV for their police and emergency responders to use.
  “We don’t have any roads here in our village, but we have miles and miles of boardwalks here. We need to get around the village, especially the police,” Wise said.
  The vehicle will meet a range of needs from transporting intoxicated people to the public safety cen
  
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