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• Grim search for missing resumes after flood in Colombia kills at least 200

  02-04-2017 22:17
  
  A grim search for the missing resumed at dawn Sunday in southern Colombia after surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through a small city, killing at least 200 people and leaving many more injured and homeless.
  People pried through piles of rocks and wooden planks that entombed homes. Streets were covered in thick sand, mud and tree limbs from the rivers and rainforest that surround the city. There was little drinking water and no power, which forced authorities to sus
  
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• Troopers seek Stebbins man accused of beating dog with a hammer

  02-04-2017 21:42
  
  Alaska State Troopers say they are looking for a Stebbins man accused of repeatedly hitting a dog with a hammer.
  Troopers received a report of the alleged crime on March 19, according to an online dispatch. Troopers responded to Stebbins, located in the Norton Sound region in western Alaska, to investigate the report.
  Their investigation revealed that 30-year-old Vincent Matthias had “injured a small dog by striking it multiple times with a hammer” the same morning they were not
  
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• Girl buried, injured by snow sliding off roof in Alaska

  02-04-2017 21:12
  
  Authorities say a 4-year-old girl was buried by 5 feet of snow in an Alaska town after snow slid off a roof, seriously injuring the child.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that emergency workers went to the home in the Fairbanks suburb of North Pole after a woman said Saturday afternoon that she could not find her granddaughter after snow slid off the roof.
  State troopers told the newspaper that the girl was found buried under the snow on the back porch of the home.
  The child had no pulse
  
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• Kicking off April with mild temperatures

  02-04-2017 20:31
  
  The high temperature in Anchorage on Saturday, April 1, was 43 degrees. That was the warmest Anchorage had been since Feb. 14.
  Despite the rapidly melting snow around town, the official snow depth near the Airport is still at 26 inches. That is the second-highest snow depth ever recorded in April. The highest was 30 inches in 2004.
  An active weather pattern will keep temperatures slightly above average and will bring in several chances for precipitation this week. High temperatures will climb to
  
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• Hilcorp reports another leak in Cook Inlet; this time it’s oil

  02-04-2017 20:29 via ktoo.org
  
   
  Glacial erratics protrude from the water near Bruce Platform, near Granite Point in Cook Inlet. (Creative Commons photo courtesy Ground Truth Trekking)
  The dominant oil and gas producer in Cook Inlet has shut down production at two of its platforms after discovering an oil spill. 
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says Hilcorp Alaska reported the spill at noon on Saturday, after employees on the company’s Anna Platform felt an impact.  When they looked ov
  
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• Next steps: Hilcorp considers repair, cleanup plans for Cook Inlet crude oil leak

  02-04-2017 12:03
  
  Last updated at 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, April 2
  Several large oil sheens were discovered Saturday near Hilcorp Alaska’s Anna Platform in Cook Inlet. By Sunday afternoon, efforts were underway to stop a leak under the supervision of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
  Crews first noticed a sheen, as well as bubbling from underwater, shortly after 11:20 a.m., according to a statement from the DEC. The DEC was contacted by 12:05 p.m. the same day. The U.S. Coast
  
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• Hilcorp discovers oil leak from underwater pipe in Cook Inlet

  02-04-2017 12:03
  
  Several large oil sheens were discovered Saturday near Hilcorp Alaska’s Anna Platform in Cook Inlet.
  Crews first noticed a sheen, as well as bubbling from underwater, shortly after 11 a.m., according to a situation report from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
  It is unknown when the leak occurred. Workers on the Anna Platform reported an “impact” on the platform shortly before the oil sheen was discovered.
  The leak appears to be coming from&nb
  
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• Hilcorp, DEC work together to repair underwater oil pipeline leak in Cook Inlet, begin cleanup efforts

  02-04-2017 12:03
  
  Last updated at 2:13 p.m. on Sunday, April 2
  Several large oil sheens were discovered Saturday near Hilcorp Alaska’s Anna Platform in Cook Inlet. By Sunday afternoon, efforts were underway to stop the leak under the supervision of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
  Crews first noticed a sheen, as well as bubbling from underwater, shortly after 11 a.m., according to a situation report from the DEC.
  It is unknown when the leak occurred. Workers on the Anna Platfo
  
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• Alaska, US leaders proclaim April as sexual assault awareness month

  02-04-2017 03:07
  
  This April is sexual assault awareness month, proclaimed as such by Alaska and U.S. leaders, including President Donald Trump. The proclamations are part of a nation-wide effort to combat sexual and domestic violence through prevention.
  “This is a resolution I bring forward every year in order to bring attention to the problem of sexual violence in Alaska,” said Sen. Kevin Meyer, the sponsor of one of those proclamations, Alaska Senate Resolution 2. “Sexual violence is preventa
  
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• Save Our Seas Act: Alaska’s senators join others to combat marine debris ‘epidemic’

  02-04-2017 00:50
  
  A new bipartisan federal measure would, if passed, combat the marine debris problem facing Alaska. Sen. Dan Sullivan and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker introduced the Save Our Seas Act this week.
  Senate Bill 756 allows the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to declare severe marine debris events and help fund cleanup and response efforts. It also reauthorizes NOAA’s Marine Debris Program through 2022. Cosponsors of the bill include U.S. Senato
  
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• Police say Ketchikan doctor’s death ‘suspicious’

  02-04-2017 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Ketchikan Police Department’s headquarters. (Photo by KRBD)
  The death of Ketchikan doctor Eric Garcia earlier this week is now considered suspicious after police learned the friend who reported Garcia missing on March 27 allegedly stole money and valuable items from Garcia’s home.https://www.krbd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/31GarciaDeath.mp3Garcia was found dead in the upstairs living room area of his home on Summit Avenue on March 27 after his friend, 31-year-old Jordan Jopli
  
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