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• University system agrees to resolve issues in federal review

  20-02-2017 23:41
  
  The University of Alaska system has agreed to resolve issues stemming from a federal review of its handling of campus sexual assault and sexual harassment cases.
  The agreement, signed by system President Jim Johnsen on Friday and released Monday, outlines steps the system will need to take over the next several years. It follows a review by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR).
  The system must reassess 23 cases to see if there were failings in the university resp
  
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• Getting ready for Fur Rondy 2017

  20-02-2017 21:55
  
  Fur Rendezvous starts this Friday, Feb. 25. According to the executive director, Beth Helgeson there’s one big change from previous years.
  “We have got winter for our winter festival,” she said. Helgeson added that all the snow and perfect temperatures will be great for the sled dog races, which has a six figure purse this year. There will also be Facebook live coverage of the event, a first for Fur Rondy. Those races start at noon Friday.
  There are also a plethora of other eve
  
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• 1 dead, 7 hospitalized from carbon monoxide at south Anchorage home

  20-02-2017 20:59
  
  Officials are investigating a carbon monoxide incident after one person was found deceased at a south Anchorage home Monday. Shannon Ballard / KTVA
  The source of carbon monoxide exposure in a south Anchorage home, where one person was found dead, is under investigation, according to Anchorage Fire Department deputy chief Jodi Hettrick.
  Few details were immediately available, but Hettrick said someone in the house woke up, realized another person wasn’t breathing, and called poli
  
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• Teacher of the Week: Joanne Christian

  20-02-2017 20:53
  
  Tudor Elementary Kindergarten teacher Joanne Christian is starting her students off with the basics — sounding and spelling three letter words and putting together sentences.
  “They come in not knowing how to write their name, read their name,” Christian said.
  She loves being there for the start of a child’s education.
  “I just love that they come in, they may not know anything, they come in as they are. They grow and learn so much in such a short amount of
  
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• 20 years later: Anniversary of Bethel school shooting still emotional

  20-02-2017 18:54
  
  Feb. 19, 1997. If you lived in Bethel on that day, you would remember exactly where you were and what you were doing, even though it was 20 years ago.
  That’s the day Evan Ramsey took a 12-gauge shotgun to school and opened fire in the lobby just before class started.
  The shooting rampage at Bethel Regional High School lasted only 15 minutes. The principal, Ron Edwards, and a student, Josh Palacios, were carried out on stretchers, but did not survive their wounds.
  Evan Ramsey was 16 years o
  
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• Deadline looms for Dakota Access pipeline protest camp

  20-02-2017 16:46
  
  CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) – State and federal authorities have told Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters at an encampment in North Dakota to leave. But many in the camp say they’re not going.
  The deadline is Wednesday. It comes amid concerns that spring flooding could wash tons of trash into nearby rivers. State officials are warning of an environmental disaster if the camp isn’t cleaned up and closed.
  Some in the camp say the flood fears are overblown. They plan to seek higher g
  
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• Grassroots effort asks for help after being overwhelmed with donations for fire victims

  20-02-2017 06:33
  
  Since two people were killed and dozens were displaced by the Royal Suite Lodge fire, clothes, children’s toys and other donations have poured into McClain’s Car Doctor in South Anchorage. The garage has become a distribution point for a donation effort that originated on social media.
  The garage’s former owner, Dan McClain, is the former father-in-law of Katie McClain-Engelking, who was seriously injured while trying to escape from the fire. He said there are so many donations
  
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• Bethel council agrees to deliver water to homeless shelter

  20-02-2017 05:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Bethel’s homeless shelter will get free water deliveries from the city this winter.
  KYUK-AM reports Bethel Winter House Director Eva Malvich told councilmembers that the facility ran through its water supply several times and couldn’t afford to refill it.
  The council decided to deliver water to the shelter until it closes in March for the season.
  Members also discussed options for future support.
  
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• 2nd Alaska fire victim identified

  20-02-2017 05:46 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage police have identified a second person who died in an apartment complex fire.
  Police say 63-year-old Vivian Hall died in the early Wednesday fire at the Royal Suite Lodge apartment complex.
  Police are asking for the public’s help to find Hall’s family members. Police say they haven’t been able to find any next of kin for the woman.
  The other person who died has been identified as 38-year-old Teuaililo Nua.
  Another 16 people were injured in the fire.
  The American Red C
  
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• Fire truck damaged in Glenn Highway collision

  20-02-2017 05:38
  
  The damaged fire truck Courtesy Virginia McMichael The damaged SUV involved in the crashCourtesy Virginia McMichael Courtesy Virginia McMichael Courtesy Virginia McMichael Courtesy Virginia McMichael
  Traffic was delayed for hours on the Glenn Highway Sunday as weather conditions led to a number of collisions, including a crash between a Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue vehicle and an SUV.
  Assistant chief of operations Virginia McMichael said a large SUV slid and hit the left side of the f
  
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• Joint rescue effort recovers stranded snowmachiners near Shishmaref

  20-02-2017 05:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A snowmachine racing past one of Kwigillingok’s wind turbines. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/APRN)
  A crew of four, with the assistance of Alaska Army National Guard assets, rescued two snowmachiners southeast of Shishmaref over the weekend.
  Late Friday night, Alaska State Troopers received a call from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center about multiple distress beacon requests coming from the area near Quartz Creek airstrip.
  According to a press release from the Department of Military an
  
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• Emperor goose hunt proposed for the first time in decades

  20-02-2017 05:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Emperor geese at Adak Island. (Public Domain photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  A subsistence harvest for Emperor Geese has been proposed this spring for the first time in 30 years. The population declined in the early 1980s. The last subsistence hunt took place in 1987. Jason Schamber, who is a wildlife biologist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says that the decades of conservation have paid off.
  “Over the last 30 years the population has grown slowly at about three p
  
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• Petraeus out of the running for national security adviser

  20-02-2017 04:50
  
  Sources close to retired Gen. David Petraeus say the White House eliminated the former CIA director from consideration for the open national security adviser post after he weighed in on the job during a conference in Germany this week.
  ‎”Whoever it is that would agree to take that position certainly should do so with some very, very significant assurances that he or she would have authorities over the personnel of the organization — that there would be a commitment to a disc
  
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• Bethel city manager plans crack down on city truck drivers

  20-02-2017 04:41 via ktoo.org
  
  Bethel water truck. (Photo by Anna Rose McArthur/KYUK)
  Bethel city water trucks get more than their fair share of abuse, but after an incident that left a brand new water truck tipped on its side, the Bethel City Manager decided to change the accident policy to give city truck drivers who are found to be negligent tickets and drug tests.
  It’s pretty common to hear about water and sewer trucks crashing into things in Bethel. They’re huge vehicles driving on tiny, often slick roads.
  Bu
  
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• Commentary: It’s been a wacky year for Alaska sports

  20-02-2017 03:53
  
  Dave Goldman says these days, Alaska looks more like the Twilight Zone than a highlight zone. 
  Dave’s opinions are his own, and not necessarily those of Denali Media or its employees. The post Commentary: It’s been a wacky year for Alaska sports appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Alaska Weather Forecast – Feb. 19, 2017

  20-02-2017 03:51
  
  As you prepare for your work week, meteorologist Carlos Faura has a look at what weather conditions you can expect.
  Follow KTVA 11’s Weather Team on Facebook and Twitter. Got a weather-related photo or story idea? Email the team at [email protected].
  The post Alaska Weather Forecast – Feb. 19, 2017 appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• 75 years later, Americans still bear scars of internment order

  20-02-2017 02:38 via ktoo.org
  
  This 1945 photo provided by the family shows Shizuko Ina, with her son Kiyoshi (left) and daughter Satsuki in an internment camp in Tule Lake, Calif. This photograph was taken by a family friend who was a soldier at the time, since cameras were considered contraband at the camp. Satsuki was born at the camp.
  Courtesy of the Ina family/AP
  It has been three-quarters of a century since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order, issued just over two months after Japa
  
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• At Florida rally, Trump restates campaign promises

  20-02-2017 02:09 via ktoo.org
  
  President Donald Trump pumps his fist to supporters at the conclusion of a campaign rally Saturday in Melbourne, Fla. (Photo by Chris O’Meara/AP)
  A month into his term, President Donald Trump hit the trail Saturday for what a White House spokeswoman called a “campaign rally for America.” At Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Florida, Trump addressed a hangar packed with supporters in an event organized not by the White House but by Trump’s own campaign committee.
  
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• Iraq opens offensive on western Mosul in new push to reclaim ISIS stronghold

  20-02-2017 02:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Armed Iraqi soldiers take their positions during clashes with militants in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq in June 2014. (Photo uncredited/AP)
  The Iraqi offensive to retake the western half of Mosul has begun, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced Sunday. The long-awaited assault comes just over a month after Iraqi forces largely cleared Islamic State militants from the districts east of the Tigris River in the major Iraqi city.
  “We announce the start of a new phase in the operation, w
  
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• Alaska military personnel honored at ASYMCA banquet

  20-02-2017 01:02
  
  The men and women honored at the ASYMCA Salute to the Military Banquet. Courtesy Lisa Murkowski/Facebook
  A dozen outstanding Alaska military members were honored Saturday night at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center in an annual event.
  The annual Armed Services YMCA Salute to the Military recognizes 12 enlisted service members representing each branch of the military in Alaska, including active duty personnel, the National Guard and the reserves.
  Spc. Vivian Mash
  Among this year&
  
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