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• ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’: Ringling Brothers circus to end after 146 years

  15-01-2017 22:57
  
  The owners of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Saturday that they will close the 146-year-old show in May.
  Kenneth Feld, the chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus, said declining attendance combined with high operating costs are among the reasons for closing.
  “There isn’t any one thing,” Feld told CBS News in an interview. “This has been a very difficult decision for me and for the entire family.”The company’s two
  
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• Guests at Dimond Center Hotel details late-night shooting

  15-01-2017 22:11
  
  Dimond Center Hotel
  Last updated at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15
  ANCHORAGE — Multiple shots were fired outside the Dimond Center Hotel Saturday night, striking the north side of the building and breaking at least one window.
  Anchorage police issued a dispatch about the shooting at 11:25 p.m., saying they had responded to the scene of the shooting and found multiple stray bullets had hit the hotel.
  Inside the hotel, Homer resident Jordin Keintz was in a third-floor room with his wife and t
  
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• Guests at Dimond Center Hotel detail late-night shooting

  15-01-2017 22:11
  
  Dimond Center Hotel
  Last updated at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15
  ANCHORAGE — Multiple shots were fired outside the Dimond Center Hotel Saturday night, striking the north side of the building and breaking at least one window.
  Anchorage police issued a dispatch about the shooting at 11:25 p.m., saying they had responded to the scene of the shooting and found multiple stray bullets had hit the hotel.
  Inside the hotel, Homer resident Jordin Keintz was in a third-floor room with his wife and t
  
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• Guest at Dimond Center Hotel details late-night shooting

  15-01-2017 22:11
  
  Dimond Center Hotel
  ANCHORAGE — Multiple shots were fired outside the Dimond Center Hotel Saturday night, striking the north side of the building and breaking at least one window.
  Anchorage police issued a dispatch about the shooting at 11:25 p.m., saying they had responded to the scene of the shooting and found multiple stray bullets had hit the hotel.
  Inside the hotel, Homer resident Jordin Keintz was in a third-floor room with his wife and two daughters when they heard the shots.
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• Alaska legislators see urgency in budget work but face rifts

  15-01-2017 21:39
  
  Alaska legislators agree on the need to address the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
  But rifts remain over how best to do that, with divisions forming over taxes, how much to keep cutting spending and whether the state needs to tinker with Alaskans’ beloved yearly oil wealth check.
  A new 90-day legislative session begins Tuesday. Many lawmakers cite a sense of urgency amid the continued drawdown of state savings. Last year’s sessions were snarled by gridlock ahead of
  
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• Feds award Anchorage coalition $1.5 million to help homeless teens

  15-01-2017 08:59
  
  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (ACEH) $1.5 million as part of a national grant competition.
  Anchorage was one of roughly 150 communities to apply for the grant, also known as the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project. Competition was stiff; only 10 cities were awarded the money.
  ACEH includes 39 local organizations, many of which work directly with homeless populations. One of them, Covenant House, is a lead agenc
  
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• ConocoPhillips announces oil discovery

  15-01-2017 08:20
  
  ConocoPhillips has announced an oil discovery where production could start as early as 2023.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the site in the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve could yield as much as 100,000 barrels of oil per day.
  ConocoPhillips Alaska president Joe Marushack said the discovery could lead to thousands of construction jobs as well as revenue for federal, state and local governments.
  Anadarko Petroleum has 22 percent working interest in the discovery while ConocoPhillips car
  
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• Police chief to give update on local crime

  15-01-2017 06:38 via ktoo.org
  
  Local crime and crime prevention are the subjects of a meeting city officials are hosting for the public Tuesday night.
  At the meeting, Juneau Police Chief Bryce Johnson will discuss some of the driving forces behind crime in the community, and how the police are responding.
  Residents and business owners will also get advice on how to protect their property.
  The meeting is at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Assembly Chambers at City Hall. Contact the City Manager’s Office at 586-5240 for more informatio
  
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• The Latest: Alaska Air says de-icer sickened attendants

  15-01-2017 06:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Airlines confirms that a nontoxic de-icer caused attendants to fall ill, triggering a hazardous material response when the flight landed in San Jose, California.
  The airline says two flight attendants on a plane that landed before 7 p.m. Thursday reported feeling ill after a white powder fell from an air vent in the galley in the front of the plane.
  One attendant was taken to a hospital to be evaluated. The airline says she has been released and reports feeling fine Friday.
  The airline sa
  
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• Southeast land exchange bill reintroduced in Congress

  15-01-2017 05:44 via ktoo.org
  
  A springtime view of Deer Mountain. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  With a new U.S. Congress convening, Alaska’s Congressional Delegation has reintroduced a bill that would trade federal land for land owned by Alaska Mental Health Trust – including Ketchikan’s Deer Mountain.
  A joint statement Thursday from Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young announced that companion bills to accelerate the exchange have been filed.
  The House and Senate bills are pre
  
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• Haines School enrollment down, while Skagway keeps growing

  15-01-2017 05:44 via ktoo.org
  
  Enrollment at Skagway School surpassed 100 in 2015 and kept growing this year. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  After an unexpected boost in enrollment last year, student numbers at the Haines School have dropped to some of the lowest the district has ever seen. That’s in stark contrast to Skagway, where the school continues to see growth in the student population.
  There was good news for the two schools last year, when Skagway and Haines both saw increases in enrollment.
  Skagway had nearl
  
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• With His Choice Of Inauguration Prayer Leaders, Trump Shows His Values

  15-01-2017 04:43 via ktoo.org
  
  The six faith leaders President-elect Donald Trump has invited to pray at his inauguration come from diverse backgrounds, but they have something in common: All have personal ties to Trump or his family or have in some way signaled their approval of him, his politics or his wealth.
  The group includes an African-American megachurch leader from Detroit, a Florida woman known for her lavish lifestyle and preaching on “abundancy,” a rabbi from Los Angeles, and a Hispanic evangelical &mda
  
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• White Nationalists’ Enthusiasm For Trump Cools

  15-01-2017 04:43 via ktoo.org
  
  Jared Taylor promotes the idea that race is central to innate abilities and national success. He is working to build a United States explicitly for white people.
  Ariel Zambelich/NPR
  Next week, white nationalists like Jared Taylor will celebrate a moment they’ve been waiting decades to see, when Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Members of the white nationalist movement were among the first to embrace Trump’s candidacy, and they celebrated after h
  
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• Hungarian Camerawoman Caught Kicking Migrants Is Sentenced To Probation

  15-01-2017 04:43 via ktoo.org
  
  A Hungarian camerawoman who was caught on film kicking migrants running from police near the border with Serbia was sentenced to three years of probation.
  A judge said Petra Laszlo’s behavior “ran counter to societal norms” and rejected Laszlo’s claim that she acted in self-defense.
  Laszlo was not charged with a racially motivated hate crime; instead, she was charged with “breach of peace.” Her conviction carried a maximum two-year jail sentence, The Independ
  
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• DOJ: ‘Severely Deficient Training’ Has Led To Pattern Of Abuse By Chicago Police

  15-01-2017 04:43 via ktoo.org
  
  The Justice Department says an investigation has found Chicago police are systematically violating the civil rights of people in the city through excessive use of force, poor oversight and inadequate training of officers.
  U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the investigation’s findings on Friday, saying the DOJ had concluded there was ample evidence the Chicago Police Department “engages in a pattern or practice of the use of excessive force,” in violation of the Four
  
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• Takata to pay $1 billion and plead guilty in exploding air bag case

  15-01-2017 02:50
  
  Automotive supplier Takata pleaded guilty Friday to criminal charges for falsifying data about its defective air bags, which led to 16 deaths. The Japanese company will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution, federal officials said in announcing the plea agreement.
  The company will pay a $25 million criminal fine, $125 million to people injured by the devices and $850 million to automakers that purchased them, said Barbara L. McQuade, the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. The
  
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• Polish gov’t welcomes U.S. troops; defense chief says ‘we waited for decades’

  15-01-2017 02:36
  
  American soldiers in PolandPhoto. szer. Natalia Wawrzyniak/11DKPanc
  Polish leaders welcomed U.S. troops to their country Saturday, with the defense minister expressing gratitude for their arrival and calling it the fulfillment of a dream Poles have had for decades.
  The ceremony in the western Polish town of Zagan comes some 23 years after the last Soviet troops left Poland. It marks a new historic moment — the first time Western forces are being deployed on a continuous basis to NATO
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 1-16-17

  15-01-2017 02:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Mudrooms from January 2016
  
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• With fresh snowfall, Anchorage fire officials warn of health risks for shoveling snow

  15-01-2017 01:52
  
  Members of NAACP Youth Council & Alaska Sierra Club clear sidewalks in Mt. View
  The Anchorage Fire Department issued a warning Saturday about potential health hazards facing those thinking about shoveling their walkways and driveways after a few inches of fresh snow fell overnight.
  Citing research from Ohio’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital in a Nixle alert Saturday, AFD officials wrote that between 1990 and 2006, around 11,500 injuries and medical emergencies related to sno
  
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• Grocery store shelves emptier in Quinhagak after route change leads to long delays

  15-01-2017 01:29
  
  Quinhagak Airport. Photo: IceCreamForEveryone
  BETHEL — The village of Quinhagak has not had a shipment of food in more than two weeks due to a damaged runway, bad weather and a change in air carriers, according to a report published by KYUK Public Media. While deliveries have been less than reliable over the last two years, people say that this is the worst it’s been.Walk into the village store in Quinhagak and you’ll see empty shelves where food should be.&ldquo
  
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