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• Feds to gain control over Kuskokwim king salmon management

  27-05-2017 22:55
  
  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) – Starting next month, the management of king salmon on a southwestern Alaska river will transfer from state control to federal.
  KYUK-AM reports that as of June 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin to oversee the salmon living on lower and middle Kuskokwim River. Under federal law, the switch is necessary when there is poor return of king salmon. By taking over the fishery, the service is responsible for ensuring that local people receive subsistence p
  
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• Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band dies at age 69

  27-05-2017 21:53
  
  Gregg Allman (Dena Flows / Flickr Creative Commons)
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – A publicist for rock legend Gregg Allman says the organist and singer for The Allman Brothers Band has died. He was 69.
  Ken Weinstein confirmed Saturday that Allman died at his home in Savannah, Georgia.
  Allman had cancelled some 2016 tour dates for health reasons. In March 2017, he canceled performances for the rest of the year.
  After years of substance abuse, Allman contracted hepatitis C and underwent a 2010 liver
  
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• Oregon man hurling racial slurs kills 2 on Portland train

  27-05-2017 20:35
  
  Jeremy Joseph Christian (Portland Police Department)
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Latest on a stabbing on a Portland, Oregon, train that left two dead (all times local):
  9:45 a.m.
  The 35-year-old Oregon man identified by authorities in the fatal stabbing of two people on a Portland light-rail train has a criminal record that includes stints in prison.
  Court records located by The Associated Press on Saturday show that Jeremy Joseph Christian was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and a weapons
  
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• Man hurling racial slurs kills 2 on Portland train

  27-05-2017 20:35
  
  Jeremy Joseph Christian (Portland Police Department)
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Latest on a stabbing on a Portland, Oregon, train that left two dead (all times local):
  9:45 a.m.
  The 35-year-old Oregon man identified by authorities in the fatal stabbing of two people on a Portland light-rail train has a criminal record that includes stints in prison.
  Court records located by The Associated Press on Saturday show that Jeremy Joseph Christian was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and a weapons
  
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• Juneau officials to consider zoning rules on historic homes

  27-05-2017 20:24
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The city and borough of Juneau is considering relaxing zoning rules on historic homes.
  KTOO-FM reported Friday that Juneau and Douglas homeowners that want to remodel or rebuild historic homes are faced with zoning laws that complicate the process. That’s because many of the rules did not exist when the historic neighborhoods were built.
  According to the report, efforts to adjust zoning laws came after the Planning Commission denied an Alaska couple’s
  
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• 5 new AST K-9 teams hit the streets

  27-05-2017 07:04
  
  (Left) Mocha; (Right) Mak
  Alaska State Troopers are about to have more specially-trained troopers on the job.
  Five teams of K-9 cops and their partners graduated Friday and are certified to better detect drugs.
  The graduations are part of the governor’s “Safer Alaska” initiative.
  Troopers now have six dog teams for drug detection, but, two of them, Mocha and Mak, are different; they’re the first dogs to not be trained to sniff out marijuana. Mocha and Mak were named
  
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• Man guilty of raping woman with Down syndrome

  27-05-2017 06:56
  
  An Anchorage man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman with Down syndrome.
  Police say the assault occurred at a Penland Parkway trailer in June 2013.
  A witness told police that 36-year-old Michael Carl “raped the handicapped girl”.
  Carl will be sentenced in August; he could face up to 15 years in prison.
  The post Man guilty of raping woman with Down syndrome appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Anchorage man found guilty of raping woman with Down syndrome

  27-05-2017 06:56
  
  Last updated at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 27
  An Anchorage man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman with Down syndrome.
  Thursday, an Anchorage jury found 36-year-old Michael Carl guilty of second- and third-degree sexual assault.
  According to the Anchorage Police Department, the assault occurred at the Penland Parkway trailer park in June 2013. Police responded to a report of a “large disturbance” outside a trailer at around 1:30 a.m.
  When officers arrived, one
  
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• Report: Kushner proposed secret communications with Russia

  27-05-2017 06:16
  
  Jared Kushner
  President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, proposed to the Russian envoy that a secret communications channel could be set up between the transition team and the Kremlin, the Washington Post reported Friday.
  This would involve using Russian diplomatic facilities to prevent the monitoring of conversations between top Trump officials and Russia, according to the Post, which cited U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence.
  The report stemmed from information a
  
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• A possible glimmer of hope for America’s ailing honeybees

  27-05-2017 06:12
  
  WASHINGTON — There’s a glimmer of hope for America’s ailing honeybees as winter losses were the lowest in more than a decade, according to a U.S. survey of beekeepers released Thursday.
  Beekeepers lost 21 percent of their colonies over last winter, the annual Bee Informed Partnership survey found. That’s the lowest winter loss level since the survey started in 2006 and an improvement from nearly 27 percent the winter before.
  The U.S. government has set a goal of keeping l
  
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• US plans test of intercontinental-range missile intercept

  27-05-2017 06:04
  
  WASHINGTON — Preparing for North Korea’s growing threat, the Pentagon will try to shoot down an intercontinental-range missile for the first time in a test next week. The goal is to more closely simulate a North Korean ICBM aimed at the U.S. homeland, officials said Friday
  The American interceptor has a spotty track record, succeeding in nine of 17 attempts since 1999. The most recent test, in June 2014, was a success, but that followed three straight failures. The system has evolved
  
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• Inside the Gates: National Guardsman brews success

  27-05-2017 05:58
  
  Like many careers, full-time Alaska National Guardsmen have busy lives. But many members still find time for hobbies, like one who brews award-winning beer.
  Lieutenant Colonel Britt Reed invented the Blackhawk Bock, a traditional German-style beer. Despite a demanding job as commander of the National Guard Blackhawk helicopter unit on Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, he said homebrewing is a fun hobby he can do in his spare time.
  “I’ve been homebrewing since about 1995,” said
  
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• Juneau: The Amsterdam of Alaska?

  27-05-2017 05:52
  
  Could Juneau become one of the biggest destinations for pot tourism in the world? The City and marijuana retailers are hopeful.
  More than 10,000 tourists a day will step onto the docks in downtown Juneau this season. Even if just 10 percent of them were interested in consuming cannabis, that’s a thousand people; the City and marijuana retailers say that’s big business.
  The cruise ship that pulled into Juneau’s port Friday morning wore a fitting title: the “Amsterdam&
  
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• Troopers, APD step up patrols for holiday weekend

  27-05-2017 03:42
  
  People headed out of town for the long holiday weekend might notice extra traffic enforcement, as Governor Bill Walker has asked Alaska State Troopers to work together with the Anchorage Police Department to keep the Seward Highway safe over Memorial Day weekend.
  APD will have officers from mile 112 near McHugh Creek to mile 75 by Ingram Creek.
  The Seward Highway is one of Alaska’s most scenic and most dangerous roadways.
  Colonel Hans Brinke with the Alaska State Troopers said that’s
  
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• DA: Anchorage man may have sex trafficked dozens

  27-05-2017 03:27
  
  Deon Daniels. (Credit: Anchorage DA’s Office)
  An Anchorage man charged with multiple sex trafficking crimes appeared before a judge on Friday. So far, three women have spoken out against 31-year-old Deon Daniels.
  He now faces six felony charges for the alleged sex trafficking crimes.
  Daniels sat quietly during his first court appearance and entered a not guilty plea on all charges– five of which claim he used force to get young victims, under 20-years-old, to engage in prostitut
  
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• Northern Lights Blvd. to be closed this weekend

  27-05-2017 02:59
  
  A section of Northern Lights Boulevard will be closed all of Memorial Day weekend as crews conduct work connected to a waterline rehabilitation project.
  Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility says the project will replace aging infrastructure that is corroding and breaking under the high-traffic roadway, as well as upsizing the water main in an effort to promote its efficiency.
  AWWU says Northern Lights Boulevard will be closed from Bragaw Street to Wesleyan Drive from 8 p.m. Friday through 5
  
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• Per diems driving special session costs

  27-05-2017 02:25 via ktoo.org
  
  The cost to taxpayers of going past the 90-day legislative session set by state law is roughly $1 million – and rising. However, lawmakers can legally have a regular session of 120 days — as they did this year — because it is written into the state Constitution.
  (Creative Commons photo by peasap)
  The additional costs are driven by the daily allowances that lawmakers receive for each day of the extra legislative time – known as a “per diem” – and the addi
  
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• Deceased members of WWII Alaska militia honored

  27-05-2017 01:14
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The Latest on a ceremony for deceased members of a World War II militia in Alaska (all times local):
  1:45 p.m.
  Relatives of deceased members of a largely Native Alaskan citizen militia who guarded the U.S. territory during World War II have received Army discharge papers meant as a posthumous honor.
  Gov. Bill Walker was among the officials who presented the documents to family members of 16 volunteers from the Alaska Territorial Guard during a ceremony Friday in An
  
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• Senator releases report on Wounded Warrior Project spending

  27-05-2017 01:09
  
  WASHINGTON — Last year, CBS News met Erick Millette, one of dozens of former employees who shared concerns about Wounded Warrior Project’s spending and programs for veterans.
  “You’re using our injuries, our darkest days, our hardships, to make money. So you can have these big parties,” Millette said in January last year.
  Sen. Chuck Grassley led an inquiry into the allegations.
  “You want to make sure that people that contribute money, that it’s used for w
  
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• Don’t call 911 to report mommy moose on the Glenn

  27-05-2017 00:53
  
  Anchorage Police say they’re being inundated with 911 calls reporting a moose with her newly-born calves off the Glenn Highway– and they want you to stop calling.
  The mommy moose and her twins are on the inbound side of Glenn Highway near the Fort Rich overpass, near where she gave birth several days ago.
  Wildlife officials have checked on their condition, and APD says they are doing just fine.
  Mom and calves will likely stay in the area several days and officials cannot relocate her
  
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• Interior secretary Zinke to visit Alaska this weekend

  27-05-2017 00:16
  
  (Gage Skidmore / Flickr Creative Commons)
  Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will make his first trip to Alaska this weekend since being confirmed to the position.
  The announcement was made Friday in a joint press release from the Alaska Congressional Delegation. Zinke will travel to the 49th state alongside U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other unnamed senators on Saturday.
  His visit, which is part of an almost week-long trip to Arctic locations led by Murkowski, will t
  
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