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• Island-wide Ketchikan power outage

  08-05-2017 23:47
  
  The Ketchikan Public Utilities company announced shortly before 1:45 p.m., Monday that power is out across the island.
  Few details were immediately available, but in a brief Facebook post the company wrote that crews are responding. The company didn’t state a source of the outage, and said they don’t know when it will be restored.
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• A mountaineering first: Climbing Mt. Huntington’s south ridge

  08-05-2017 23:35
  
  In mid-April two climbers made mountaineering history by being the first to ascend the south ridge of Mount Huntington, which is located roughly eight miles south-southeast of Denali. It took them seven days, though they had only prepared for five.
  Clint Helander, one of the two climbers, said the ridge isn’t as tall as Denali, but there’s no easy way up the summit. Helander mentioned Mount Huntington is a little over two miles long as the crow flies, but there’s 8500 feet of e
  
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• UAA Commencement Speaker Nina Lee’s journey to become a college graduate

  08-05-2017 23:33
  
  By the time she was 23, University of Alaska Anchorage graduate Nina Lee had dropped out of college multiple times before she received her degree on May 7, 2017. Not only did she don the cap and gown, she was chosen to be UAA’s Commencement Speaker.
  Lee enrolled in college right out of high school because she thought that’s what people did. Lee said it was hard for her to focus on one degree. This is why she thinks it was so hard for her to attend classes. Lee started working, and as
  
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• Newscast – Monday, May 8, 2017

  08-05-2017 23:16 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/May-8-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Eaglecrest Ski Area announced it hired a new general manager, David Scanlan a former Alaskan living in Maine.
  A Sitka man with Juneau ties was arrested on Saturday for killing his girlfriend.
  
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• Lawmaker silent amid apology demands for abortion remarks

  08-05-2017 23:10
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska legislative leaders say they’re unsure what steps, if any, may be taken after being met with silence in their demands that a state representative apologize for comments on abortion that they said were offensive.
  On Friday, one House member suggested that the chamber should consider censuring Rep. David Eastman. But House Speaker Bryce Edgmon said Monday that nothing had been determined.
  Eastman infuriated fellow lawmakers with comments he made last week a
  
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• Officer Reishus honored, remembered by JPD and CCFR

  08-05-2017 22:51 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Dave Stott says Juneau Police Officer Karl Reishus died saving his life.
  In what was probably the darkest day for both the Juneau police and fire departments, Reishus was killed, and firefighters Stott and Pat Peterson were severely injured during an accident a quarter century ago at the Hagevig Regional Fire Training Center.
  All three men fell from the top of the four-story structure.
  “The whole process took 3 seconds. It’s 2-and-a-half seconds, 3 seconds from the time you started
  
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• Eaglecrest Ski Area names new general manager

  08-05-2017 22:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/170508_Eaglecrest.mp3David Scanlan will take the helm of Eaglecrest this summer. He comes to Juneau from Greenwood, Maine where he’s managed a ski area since 2013. (Photo courtesy of City and Borough of Juneau)
  The Eaglecrest Ski Area has a new general manager. The board of directors announced Monday that David Scanlan would come on board June 26.
  Scanlan will relocate from Greenwood, Maine, where he’s been the general manager of the Mt.
  
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• Fairbanks police looking for possibly ‘armed’ murder suspect

  08-05-2017 22:30
  
  The Fairbanks Police Department (FPD) is searching for the suspect in a murder case, who the agency said is “considered armed and dangerous.”Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Vance Arabie is a suspect in the slaying of Carlos Zuniga, 47.
  According to police, they responded to a report of shots fired on College Road, near Creamer’s Field, around 11:30 p.m., Thursday. Responding officers found Zuniga critically injured, and attempted first aid, before first responders pr
  
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• Teacher of the Week: Kathy Campbell

  08-05-2017 22:29
  
  Kathy Campbell has worked in active war zones and debriefed a four-star general in the United States Army, but she feels it’s in the classroom where she is making the most difference.
  “I feel like I’m making a difference in the world. I’m helping really truly to make citizens that every day I can see growth,” Campbell said. “I feel like I make more of a difference here than in anything else I’ve ever done.”
  Campbell is a retired Army colo
  
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• Kristine Nick and Susan Charles: 2017 Kuskokwim Ice Classic and Second Chance Contest winners

  08-05-2017 21:31
  
  2:51 a.m., Saturday, May 6. That’s the official time of breakup on the Kuskokwim this year, when the thawing river carried the Ice Classic Tripod downstream, stopping the clock and marking the start of spring, according to a KYUK Public Media report.
  Kristine Nick guessed the closest time to break up and received the call Saturday afternoon that she’d won the $12,500 jackpot.
  “I honestly was just in shock, and I was shaking. I couldn’t believe it. I just wanted to cry.&r
  
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• New study sheds light on risks of teen dating abuse

  08-05-2017 21:18
  
  Girls who go through puberty earlier than their peers may be more vulnerable to abuse from a boyfriend, new research suggests.
  These girls were more likely to say a boyfriend had verbally or physically abused them: 32 percent did, versus 28 percent of their peers who went through puberty “on time.”
  It’s a small difference, said senior researcher Sara Jaffee, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
  Clearly, Jaffee pointed out, not all girls w
  
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• Community minded team wears teal jerseys for annual soccer match

  08-05-2017 21:02
  
  Teal is for real at Service High School.
  For a fifth straight year, the Service High School girls’ soccer program played “The Teal Game,” on a bright and sunny Friday afternoon. As the Cougars took to the pitch with South High School, money raised would go to help promote awareness of gynecological cancers while helping support women already in the battle.
  Mary Rita Ely, a teacher at Service and an ovarian cancer survivor, helped start the support group, “Let Every Woman
  
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• Public restrooms become ground zero in the opioid epidemic

  08-05-2017 20:50 via ktoo.org
  
  A public restroom on the platform of the Central Square MBTA station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which people have used as a place for getting high. (Photo by Jesse Costa/WBUR)
  A man named Eddie threads through the mid-afternoon crowd in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He’s headed for a sandwich shop, the first stop on a tour of public bathrooms.
  “I know all the bathrooms that I can and can’t get high in,” says Eddie, 39, pausing in front of the shop’s plate glass window
  
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• Sitka man with Juneau ties charged with murder

  08-05-2017 20:49 via ktoo.org
  
  A Sitka man formerly of Juneau was charged with first degree murder Saturday, after telling police he killed his girlfriend during an argument.
  Reuben Yerkes. (Photo courtesy Sitka Police Department)
  Reuben Yerkes, age 39, is being held in custody at the Sitka Jail on $500,000 bail. He was arraigned on the murder charge during a teleconference at noon Friday . On-call weekend magistrate Elaine Jack of Angoon presided over the phone.
  Sitka police found Yerkes in the lobby at 3:02 a.m., stati
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 5-8-17

  08-05-2017 18:43 via ktoo.org
  
  MONDAY, May 8, 2017
   
  Host:   Scott Burton
   
  We’ll talk with Zuill Bailey and William Ransom about their upcoming Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival concert;
   
  Pam Leary will be here to highlight the Arctic winter Games and Team Alaska;
   
  We’ll talk with Erin Walker-Torres and Joni Pico about the Hospice & Home Care of Juneau’s Good Grief Walk;
   
  And Lauren Anderson will be here to update us on activities at the Treadwell Ice Arena.
   
  
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• Los Angeles, Paris await Olympic inspectors in 2024 race

  08-05-2017 17:46
  
  GENEVA (AP) – Los Angeles and Paris, both already seen as winning options for the 2024 Games, await their Olympic inspectors this week.
  The cities will host three-day visits by an International Olympic Committee panel, whose chairman has no doubt about their hosting credentials.
  “I think today at least you can already say, either way, we will have fantastic Olympic Games,” IOC evaluation commission chairman Patrick Baumann told The Associated Press.
  IOC President Thomas Bach se
  
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• Driver dies in car collision with moose east of Fairbanks

  08-05-2017 17:42
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – A Fairbanks-area man died when his car struck a moose at high speed.
  Alaska State Troopers say 50-year-old Larry Woods Jr. of Two Rivers died in the crash early Sunday morning.
  Troopers took a call on the crash just before 1:30 a.m.
  Trooper investigators determined that Woods and a passenger, 53-year-old Edith Woods, were driving east at Mile 12 Chena Hot Spring Road when they struck the moose.
  Larry Woods was pronounced dead at the scene.
  (Copyright 2017 The Assoc
  
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• Alaska groups work to ensure shellfish are safe to eat

  08-05-2017 17:17
  
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) – Alaska groups are increasing efforts to make sure shellfish are clean enough to be eaten.
  The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported (http://bit.ly/2pndPsT ) Friday that one-third of the state’s reported cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning come from Kodiak Island.
  Algae blooms can cause shellfish to become contaminated with harmful toxins, which if eaten could cause illness and death.
  There is no state monitoring program for shellfish harvesting despite the risk, so Al
  
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• Tillerson to discuss Syria crisis with Russian counterpart

  08-05-2017 16:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet with his Russian counterpart about the Syria crisis amid a new Russia-led push to create safe zones to lower violence.
  The State Department and Russia’s Foreign Ministry say that Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (SEHR’-gay LAHV’-rahf) will meet in Washington on Wednesday. The following day, both diplomats are scheduled to attend an Arctic Council summit in Alaska.
  The U.S. says Tillerson plan
  
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• Earthquake hits central Alaska, third to hit during weekend

  08-05-2017 08:33
  
  PLEASANT VALLEY, Alaska (AP) – The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit the central part of the state.
  The center says the earthquake had an epicenter 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of Pleasant Valley, a town of about 700 residents at 9:09 p.m. local time Sunday. The earthquake had a depth of 6.8 miles (11 kilometers.)
  The earthquake was the third to hit Alaska over the weekend.
  On Saturday, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck in the Kenai Peninsula region
  
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• Earthquake hits central Alaska, rising weekend count to 4

  08-05-2017 08:33
  
  PLEASANT VALLEY, Alaska (AP) – The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit the central part of the state.
  The center says the earthquake had an epicenter 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of Pleasant Valley, a town of about 700 residents at 9:09 p.m. local time Sunday. The earthquake had a depth of 6.8 miles (11 kilometers.)
  The earthquake was the third to hit Alaska over the weekend.
  On Saturday, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck in the Kenai Peninsula region
  
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• Delores Churchill honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

  08-05-2017 07:29 via ktoo.org
  
  (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska held its 82nd annual meeting last month in Juneau. At the welcoming banquet, Haida master weaver Delores Churchill of Ketchikan received the Lifetime Achievement Award from council president Richard Peterson.
  Ninety-nine delegates from throughout Southeast, Anchorage and the Pacific Northwest attended the three-day event.
  Before the award was presented to Churchill, Dana Ruaro gave an intro
  
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• Recall debate highlights small town dynamics

  08-05-2017 07:04 via ktoo.org
  
  Homer City Hall (Photo courtesy of City of Homer)
  Members of the public spoke both for and against the petitions to recall three Homer City Council members at the regular meeting Monday night. Much of it boiled down to rifts in small town politics.
  Much of the recall debate centers on small town dynamics
  The petitions ask for the recall of Council Members Donna Aderhold, Catriona Reynolds, and David Lewis. They were certified by the city clerk on April 5.
  Many of the comments made during the mos
  
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• Bettors wait for the Kuskokwim Ice Classic Tripod to stop the clock

  08-05-2017 07:04 via ktoo.org
  
  The Kuskokwim Ice Classic tripod fell at 4:40 p.m., Thursday, May 4, 2017. But the clock, counting down to break up and a $12,500 prize, continues to tick. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK)
  Ice Classic Manager Haley Hanson had just driven to the river when it happened.
  “We were just down here, getting stuff ready in the shack, talking about the Breakup Bash, and waiting around, checking out the river, and it just fell over as we were watching it,” she said.
  That was at 4:40 p.m. on
  
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• Secretive nonprofits back governors around the country

  08-05-2017 06:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens after securing the GOP nomination in August of 2016. Allies of Greitens are using a nonprofit group to advance his legislative agenda.
  Michael Thomas/AP
  When Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was merely Candidate Eric Greitens, the Republican didn’t have a subtle opinion about secret money in his state’s politics.
  During an appearance on St. Louis Public Radio’s Politically Speaking in 2016, the former Navy SEAL emphasized how proud he was that the state&r
  
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• Emmanuel Macron declared next French president

  08-05-2017 06:35 via ktoo.org
  
  French independent centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron waves as he leaves the polling station after casting his ballot in the presidential election in Le Touquet, France, Sunday. Macron was declared the winner based on early vote counts by the French Interior Ministry.
  Christophe Ena/AP
  France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron — an independent centrist who has never held elected office — has won a resounding victory over far-right, nationalist Marine Le Pen in the most
  
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• As GOP health care push moves to Senate, White House questions value of CBO analysis

  08-05-2017 06:35 via ktoo.org
  
  President Donald Trump celebrates with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the White House Rose Garden Thursday after the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act. Evan Vucci/AP
  After the GOP-controlled House passed a Republican-drafted health care bill Thursday without waiting for an analysis of the bill’s costs and impacts by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the White House is signaling that Washington’s official legislative scorekeeper could be its next political foil.
  
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• University of Alaska Anchorage graduates Class of 2017

  08-05-2017 03:59
  
  The University of Alaska Anchorage is celebrating the class of 2017, a group that includes more than 1,300 students.
  Over 800 of those graduates filed into the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage Sunday to receive their degrees.
  Bruce Schultz, UAA’s vice chancellor of student affairs, said the graduation included students who got the job done in four years, as well as others who took much longer.
  “I met some individuals who were 70 years old and who had been on their path to graduat
  
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• Average US gas price drops 5 cents, as crude cost falls

  08-05-2017 02:21
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) – The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline dropped 5 cents nationally over the past two weeks, to $2.41.
  Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the drop reflected lower costs for crude oil, as well as abundant gas supplies.
  She says the national average is 14 cents a gallon above the price a year ago.
  Gas in San Francisco was the highest in the contiguous United States at an average of $3.02 a gallon. The lowest was in
  
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• Harvesting Alaska: UAF Experiment Farm continues thanks to USDA grant

  08-05-2017 01:56
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks Experiment Farm is a staple of sustainable food production in Alaska. For 100 years, it has provided vital information to gardeners and farmers about how livestock and plants perform in Alaska’s harsh climates. Located on the west end of UAF’s main campus, the farm includes a herd of 60 reindeer, a botanical garden and greenhouses.
  One of the farm’s principal roles is to perform variety trials of a number of edible and inedible plants. Researc
  
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• Netflix renews ’13 Reasons Why’ for second season

  08-05-2017 01:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – Netflix has renewed the watercooler hit “13 Reasons Why” for a second season.
  The streaming service announced Sunday that it has picked up the series revolving around the suicide of a high school girl. Season two will debut on Netflix next year.
  While Netflix doesn’t release ratings information, “13 Reasons Why” has proven a conversation-starting drama.
  Some have criticized the show for glorifying suicide, which led to Netflix adding an additio
  
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• Secret Air Force plane lands after 2 years in space

  08-05-2017 01:08
  
  The Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 landed at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility May 7, 2017. (U.S. Air Force)
  An unpiloted military space plane, launched by an Atlas 5 rocket in May 2015, glided to an unannounced landing on the long shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, closing out a 718-day mission. It was the first Florida landing of a returning spacecraft since Atlantis flew home in the program’s final mission in 2011.The #AirForce #
  
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• Trump praises Macron for ‘big win’ in France’s election

  08-05-2017 00:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is offering praise and congratulations to centrist Emmanuel Macron, who has been elected as France’s youngest president ever.
  Trump describes Macron’s victory over far-right opponent Marine Le Pen in the French presidential runoff as a “big win.”
  In a tweet, Trump says he’s looking forward to working with Macron, but Trump did not immediately extend an invitation for him to visit the White House.
  Trump tweeted: “C
  
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