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• Newscast – Monday, May 15, 2017

  15-05-2017 23:12 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/newscast2.mp3In this newscast:
  The Alaska Legislature is approaching its constitutional deadline without a decision to fix the budget deficit.
  Two University of Alaska Southeast researchers will study how whale watching tours affect humpback whales.
  Juneau gets a third option for air ambulance service.
  
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• Body found on Knik River Road, investigation ongoing

  15-05-2017 22:52
  
  Alaska State Troopers have opened a death investigation after an unidentified male was found near mile 4.8 of Knik River Road.
  In a dispatch, troopers said that the Alaska Bureau of Investigation responded and is investigating. The body was taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage for an autopsy.
  No other information was immediately available.
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• Ride AWAIC: Raising funds and awareness for sexual assault and domestic abuse

  15-05-2017 22:45
  
  The Diamond Girls Motorcycle Club and the Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis (AWAIC) are riding to raise funds and awareness for domestic abuse and sexual assault. This will be the second Ride AWAIC event.
  Events like this fall within the Diamond Girls mission statement, according to its president Shaina Palmer. She says the club is about female empowerment and getting involved in the community. Palmer added they partnered with AWAIC because there is a high rate of sexual assault and domestic ab
  
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• Alaskans love the outdoors, but some find their fun in the pool

  15-05-2017 22:21
  
  The recent Alaska Junior Olympics swimming event at Bartlett High School was proof of the strides the sport is making in the state.
  “This is the largest championship meet of the year,” said Jodi McLaughlin, the event’s coordinator. “We have 480 swimmers from all over the state — 25 teams.”
  That number is where it should be. Between 450 and 500 swimmers generally show up.
  Alaska is considered as an outdoor state. While that may be true, more residents are disco
  
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• Teacher of the Week: Amy Habberstad

  15-05-2017 22:06
  
  When South Anchorage High School opened in 2004, English teacher Amy Habberstad was one of the original staff members. Thirteen years later, she is still working to make sure her students don’t take their classes for granted.
  “Everyone writes on the job, and kids don’t think that,” explained Habberstad. “They think of English as sort of poetry and reading Shakespeare, but there’s a lot more to it and I want them to appreciate the language skills that they need
  
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• Big issues unresolved as Alaska legislative deadline looms

  15-05-2017 21:44
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska legislators face a looming constitutional deadline for completing their work, but they remain at odds over how best to address a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit.
  Lawmakers have been grappling with that issue since failing to come up with a long-term solution last year.
  This year, there’s general agreement about using earnings from Alaska’s oil-wealth fund to fill much of the deficit but differences over what else should be done.
  The constit
  
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• US accuses Syria of mass executions and burning the bodies

  15-05-2017 18:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration is accusing the Syrian government of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital.
  The State Department says about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya (Said-nay-ah) military prison, about 45 minutes from Damascus. It says the crematorium is being used to hide evidence of the extent of the killings.
  The department is releasing newly declassified photographs showin
  
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• Troopers: Wasilla man charged after axe threatening incident

  15-05-2017 18:32
  
  Sunday night, Alaska State Troopers say they responded to a Willow home for a report that a man was threatening citizens with an axe.
  According to an online dispatch, troopers contacted Joseph Clark, a 33-year-old from Wasilla.
  He was arrested for two counts of third-degree assault, first-degree criminal trespassing, fifth-degree criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct. He was transported to the Mat-Su Pre-trial facility, in Palmer, and held on $5,000 bail.
   
   
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• Poll: Most know little about charter schools

  15-05-2017 17:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – A new poll finds that most Americans say they know little about charter schools or private school voucher programs.
  The poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 58 percent of respondents say they know little or nothing at all about charter schools. And 66 percent report the same lack of knowledge about private school voucher programs.
  Charter schools are funded by taxpayers, but they operate independently of school district
  
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• Alaska professor, student to study impact of whale watching

  15-05-2017 17:42
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A University of Alaska professor and graduate student are planning to study the impact whale watching has on humpback whales.
  The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/2qnp07a ) this summer professor Heidi Pearson and one of her students will see how many whale-watching boats are in an area at once, and how close those boats are getting to the whales.
  Some people in the Alaska whale-watching industry say an increasing number of tourist vessels have become a problem, wh
  
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• Bethel to decide on lease for state air quality monitoring

  15-05-2017 11:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Bethel City Council member, Leif Albertson, visits the site of a proposed Air Quality Monitoring System behind AC on May 10, 2017. Albertson believes the monitoring system could eventually lead to better air quality for Bethel citizens. (Photo by Christine Trudeau/KYUK)
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is looking for a lease agreement with the City of Bethel to set up an air quality monitoring system. The state-funded project is part of an effort to collect better data on what
  
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• Fans watch first Tlingit Miss Alaska reach final 10 in Miss USA contest

  15-05-2017 10:41 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Sierra Flores, left, her mother Serena Hinchman, middle, and Raeanne Holmes holds signs at the Miss USA watch party in the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall in Juneau on Sunday, Hinchman and Holmes work for Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/14London.mp3A few more than a dozen fans of Alyssa London, or Miss Alaska, are groaning in disappointment and one resilient fan screams, “W
  
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• In rural Alaska, a young doctor walks to his patient’s bedside

  15-05-2017 07:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Dr. Adam McMahan has been practicing medicine in rural Alaska for three years. It’s the kind of intimate, full-spectrum family medicine the 34-year-old doctor loves.
  Elissa Nadworny/NPR
  In rural Alaska, providing health care means overcoming a lot of hurdles.
  Fickle weather that can leave patients stranded, for one.
  Also: complicated geography. Many Alaskan villages have no roads connecting them with hospitals or specialists, so people depend on local clinics and a cadre of devoted primary
  
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• Focus on infants during childbirth leaves U.S. moms in danger

  15-05-2017 07:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Photographs of Lauren and Larry in the Bloomstein’s home in New Jersey. Bryan Anselm for ProPublica
  As a neonatal intensive care nurse, Lauren Bloomstein had been taking care of other people’s babies for years. Finally, at 33, she was expecting one of her own. The prospect of becoming a mother made her giddy, her husband Larry recalled recently— “the happiest and most alive I’d ever seen her.”
  When Lauren was 13, her own mother had died of a massive heart atta
  
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• Can’t pay your student loans? The government may come after your house

  15-05-2017 07:39 via ktoo.org
  
  James Yang for NPR
  On Adriene McNally’s 49th birthday in January, she heard a knock on the door of her modest row-home in Northeast Philadelphia.
  She was being served.
  “They actually paid someone to come out and serve me papers on a Saturday afternoon,” she says.
  The papers were from a government lawsuit that represents something more than just an unwelcome birthday gift — it’s an example of a program the federal government has brought to 19 cities around the countr
  
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• Miss District of Columbia wins 2017 Miss USA

  15-05-2017 06:14
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) – The Latest on the 2017 edition of the Miss USA pageant taking place in Las Vegas (all times local):Relive the moment when dreams became reality. #MissUSA pic.twitter.com/O0vU1FRYAB
  — Miss USA (@MissUSA) May 15, 20177 p.m.
  The District of Columbia has won back-to-back Miss USA titles.
  Kara McCullough, a chemist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was crowned Sunday during the event that took place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the Las Vegas
  
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• Anchorage police investigating elderly woman’s death as homicide

  15-05-2017 03:39
  
  APD on location at a Midtown home where an elderly woman was found dead Sunday.The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is investigating the death of an elderly woman at a Midtown residence as a homicide.
  In a release sent early Sunday evening, police said the unnamed woman “was found deceased at a residence on the 1000 block of E. 28th Ave.”
  Someone called 911 around 1:18 p.m. Sunday to report the death.
  “We are convinced it’s a homicide,” APD Sgt. Slav Markiewi
  
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• Anchorage police identify elderly woman killed in homicide

  15-05-2017 03:39
  
  APD on location at a Midtown home where an elderly woman was found dead Sunday.Last updated at 10:39 a.m. on Monday, May 15
  The Anchorage Police Department says 92-year-old Charlotte Marvin died of an apparent gunshot wound.
  No arrests have been made, but police believe they’ve contacted those involved.
  The investigation is ongoing.
  Original story posted on Sunday, May 14
  The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is investigating the death of an elderly woman at a Midtown residence as a
  
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• Graduate, 14, youngest ever at Texas Christian University

  15-05-2017 00:44
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A 14-year-old physics major has become the youngest person ever to graduate from Texas Christian University.
  Carson Huey-You was among more than 2,000 students getting degrees Saturday at the Fort Worth school founded in 1873. He started at TCU in 2013 when he was 11. He also has minors in Chinese and math.
  Huey-You tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram his favorite thing about college has been getting to learn things he never thought about, things he never knew
  
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