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• Newscast – Wednesday, May 31, 2017

  31-05-2017 22:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Stories include a reported shooting of a brown bear on Douglas Island, death of a Washington state fisherman near Cordova, and early notification of potential state employee layoffs in the event of a state government shutdown.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/noon053117.mp3
  
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• First confirmed brown bear on Douglas Island in decades killed

  31-05-2017 21:38 via ktoo.org
  
  The first confirmed brown bear on Douglas Island in decades was killed last week in what state officials say was reported as a shooting in defense of life or property.
  Tom Schumacher, a Douglas-based Fish and Game management coordinator, said the adult boar was killed at a residence near Mile 5 of the North Douglas Highway, across Gastineau Channel from Juneau. The homeowner, a commercial fisherman, had come home Wednesday night and was later awakened by “a bear tearing up things behi
  
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• Brown bear shot on Douglas Island — the first documented kill in decades

  31-05-2017 21:38 via ktoo.org
  
  Update | 12:36 p.m. Wednesday
  A homeowner shot and killed a brown bear on Douglas Island last week. It’s the first brown bear documented on the island in more than 40 years.
  Sightings of brown bears are often reported but there’s been no proof – until now, said Ryan Scott, regional conservation supervisor for Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
  An adult brown bear weighing at least 700 pounds was shot and killed by a homeowner near North Douglas
  
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• Police investigate death of California man found on Mount Roberts

  31-05-2017 21:18 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau police are investigating the death of a California man found near the tramway station on Mount Roberts.
  The 57-year-old was unresponsive to CPR at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday when Capital City Fire/Rescue arrived on the scene on the trail system behind the station, according to a Juneau Police Department news release.
  He was declared dead at the scene. Family was present.
  His body was sent to Anchorage for an autopsy.
  
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• State grant to help Ketchikan agencies reduce recidivism

  31-05-2017 20:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Ketchikan Correctional Center. (Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Corrections)
  A coalition of Ketchikan agencies is gathering to explore how to help people getting out of jail stay out of jail with the help of a state grant.
  Akeela Gateway and Ketchikan Indian Community were awarded the grant through the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services Division of Behavioral Health.
  The organizations plan to pull together representatives from state and local law enforcement, and s
  
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• Kabul car bombing kills at least 80 people, injures hundreds more

  31-05-2017 19:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Updated at 7 a.m. ET
  A huge car bomb explosion early Wednesday killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 350 others in Kabul’s diplomatic zone, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health says. The attack struck the busy neighborhood in the capital city just before 8:30 a.m. local time, during Kabul’s morning commute.
  The bomb was detonated near Zanbaq Square outside the “Green Zone,” according to the NATO-led Resolute Support mission, which adds that Afghan secur
  
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• Former Murkowski campign manager selected for Interior job

  31-05-2017 19:03 via ktoo.org
  
  
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s former campaign manager has a new job in the Trump administration.
  Steve Wackowski will be the new senior adviser for Alaska Affairs in the Interior Department.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170530-04.mp3Wackowski will advise Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke who announced the appointment Tuesday in Anchorage.
  Wackowski is from Anchorage and that’s where his position will be based.
  He worked as an aide to the late Sen. Ted Stevens and ran Murkowski&rsquo
  
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• Body of commercial fisherman recovered near Cordova

  31-05-2017 18:53
  
  CORDOVA, Alaska (AP) – The body of a Washington state commercial fisherman was recovered from waters off Cordova, Alaska, after his boat was spotted driving in circles.
  Alaska State Troopers say the body of 69-year-old Clifford Johns of Bothell was recovered Thursday night.
  The Coast Guard at 9 p.m. Thursday took a report that Johns’ fishing boat, Dances With Clams, was driving in circles with no one on board in the Copper River Flats.
  Two wildlife troopers went to the scene, and wit
  
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• ‘Covfefe’ kerfuffle: Trump’s typo sparks a search for meaning, and humor

  31-05-2017 18:50 via ktoo.org
  
  A tweet by President Trump, which has been deleted, caused a stir with its mention of “negative press covfefe.” (Screenshot @realDonaldTrump by NPR)
  What do you do about a problem like “covfefe”? That word from President Donald Trump’s late-night tweet set Twitter ablaze overnight, sparking jokes and quasi-definitions of what seems to have been a typo. The covfefe kerfuffle is a reminder that we’re living in a unique political era: Even the words are bran
  
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• White House official: Trump expected to pull US from Paris deal

  31-05-2017 17:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump and the global climate agreement (all times local):
  10:50 a.m.
  “A stunning abdication of American leadership and a grave threat to our planet’s future.”
  That’s what the top House Democrat is calling President Donald Trump’s expected decision to pull the U.S. from a historic climate agreement.
  California Rep. Nancy Pelosi says Trump is “denying scientific truths, removing safeguards that protect our h
  
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• Pelley out as ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor

  31-05-2017 16:05
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – Scott Pelley is out as “CBS Evening News” anchor, and he’ll be returning to full-time work at the network’s flagship newsmagazine “60 Minutes.”
  Two people familiar with the situation on Wednesday confirmed reports that CBS is expected to announce Pelley’s departure shortly. The CBS show is a distant third to ABC and NBC in the evening news rankings and despite some critical success, has not been able to close the gap.
  Reports of Pel
  
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• Red Carpet Concert: Hannah Yoter Band

  31-05-2017 16:02 via ktoo.org
  
  For our third video, we present The Hannah Yoter Band, performing their song “Something Good.” It’s third video from our eight-part Red Carpet Concert series filmed at the Alaskan Hotel during the Alaska Folk Festival. The six-piece band is fronted by Anchorage songwriter Hannah Yoter. This spring she received an individual artist grant from the Rasmuson Foundation to work on the band’s next album.This video was made in collaboration between with Justin Smith&nb
  
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• Secretary Zinke supports more offshore drilling in Alaska

  31-05-2017 07:48
  
  Ryan Zinke made it clear: it’s no longer business as usual at the U.S. Department of Interior.
  “The new Interior is about being a partner,” said the secretary, who emphasized the role of Alaska Natives.
  “I think they should have a greater voice. We’re all partners, but, I think that voice needs to be heard, and they need a place at the table,” Secretary Zinke said at he addressed reporters at the Cook Inlet Region Office after he met with representatives of se
  
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• Scotty Gomez is back in the game, joins Islanders

  31-05-2017 07:15
  
  The ice calls again. Scotty Gomez knew he couldn’t stay away. Tuesday, the New York Islanders made it official. The Anchorage native will join the club next year as an assistant coach.
  “I think this was my calling,” said Gomez. After speaking with other veterans who’ve gone into coaching after their playing days, he was advised this is the way to stay connected to the game he loves. He officially retired from playing last summer and accepted the job after spending this pa
  
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• Missile Defense Agency conducts successful anti-ICBM test

  31-05-2017 06:30 via ktoo.org
  
  On Tuesday, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced it conducted a successful test of a system designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles. It’s the first test of the system by the U.S. in almost three years. The closely watched exercise came just a day after a North Korean missile test and weeks of a provocative uptick in such launches.
  “Today was clearly good news,” said Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who sits on the Armed Services Committee. “That was t
  
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• Ashland holds candlelight vigil for Good Samaritan killed in Portland hate attack

  31-05-2017 06:17 via ktoo.org
  
  The memorial for Taliesin Nomkai Meche was held in Ashland’s Lithia Park on the evening of Saturday, May 27, 2017. (Photo by Liam Moriarty/Jefferson Public Radio News)
  About 200 people gathered in Ashland on Saturday night to celebrate the life of a hometown boy with Juneau ties who died trying to protect a pair of women from anti-Muslim abuse in Portland.
  As the sun set on a golden spring day, they gathered in Lithia Park, near a fast-running Ashland Creek. Friends, family and community m
  
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• 18K state employees alerted to possible government shutdown

  31-05-2017 05:17
  
  Don’t show up to work on July 1 if lawmakers haven’t passed a budget– those were the instructions sent out Tuesday to thousands of state employees.
  The Department of Administration is preparing to send out 18,000 layoff notices, known as pink slips, Thursday, according to a Grace Jang, a spokesperson for Governor Bill Walker.
  Jang says the department wanted to give state employees a “heads up” Tuesday to check their mailboxes for the notifications later this week.
  T
  
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• Lightning network helps confirm volcanic eruption

  31-05-2017 05:10
  
  Bogoslof erupted this weekend for the thirty-ninth time since December.
  Researchers at the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) were able to warn pilots to avoid the area while the eruption was still happening, thanks to an alert of lightning in the area.
  The plume climbed to over 40,000 feet Sunday afternoon and an ash could be seen over 50 miles away. A dangerous situation for any planes in the area.
  “If there’s enough ash it can actually cause the engines to flare out to turn off,&rdq
  
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• Investigators learn new language of fire behavior to find origin, cause

  31-05-2017 05:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Student investigators take pictures of clothing that may provide clues about the cause and origin of a fire during a recent fire investigator’s training exercise at Juneau’s Hagevig Regional Fire Training Center. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  When a fire breaks out, it’s not always obvious how it started. Not only could the entire structure be wiped out, but items that started the fire could be partially destroyed or altered beyond recognition.
  That’s the job of the fire in
  
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• F&G sees uptick in people injured by moose

  31-05-2017 03:44
  
  Mama moose & her calves taking a stroll in Seward
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is warning people to be very careful around moose, especially those with calves.
  Biologist Dave Battle said the Department has seen a higher-than-usual number of people hurt by moose this spring– at least eight so far.
  “We always have a lot of close encounters, and occasionally somebody will get kicked and a moose will make contact,” said Battle, “But, it seems like it’s hap
  
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• ADF&G sees uptick in people injured by moose

  31-05-2017 03:44
  
  Mama moose & her calves taking a stroll in Seward
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is warning people to be very careful around moose, especially those with calves.
  Biologist Dave Battle said the Department has seen a higher-than-usual number of people hurt by moose this spring– at least eight so far.
  “We always have a lot of close encounters, and occasionally somebody will get kicked and a moose will make contact,” said Battle, “But, it seems like it’s hap
  
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• School is out: Keeping kids’ minds, bodies active this summer

  31-05-2017 03:33
  
  With school out for the summer, families are settling into a new routine. Experts say it’s important kids’ minds and bodies are still active outside the classroom.
  Mom of three and former teacher Janette Geasley says summer is a time for fun but the learning doesn’t end just because school is out.
  “There tends to be a huge gap in the summertime when kids are staying at home and they’re not active,” she said.
  That’s why the library becomes a home away fro
  
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• Travel Tuesday: Alaska Airlines Club 49 giving away 250,000 miles

  31-05-2017 02:44
  
  The Alaska Airlines’ Club 49 will be giving away 250,000 airline miles throughout the month of June during its Summer Sweepstakes.
  Scott Habberstad with Alaska Airlines said miles will be given away every week starting May 30. In the first week, 20,000 will be given away, 30,000 in the second, 40,000 in the third and 50,000 in the fourth. One lucky Alaskan will win the grand prize of 110,000 miles. Habberstad says the grand prize winner will be announced live on the radio. The contest ends
  
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• Video shows ‘unruly’ Southwest Airlines passenger pinned to floor

  31-05-2017 02:41
  
  Cellphone video shows an airline employee pinning a man to the floor of the plane at McCarran International Airport around 7:30 p.m. local time on Mon., May 29, 2017. CBS CHICAGO
  CHICAGO — A Southwest Airlines passenger who the airline said appeared to be drunk ran screaming onto a Chicago-bound flight in Las Vegas, after having been kicked off the plane, and he was zip-tied to a seat until police arrived
  Cellphone video of the incident on Flight 3630 shows an airline employee pinning the
  
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• Kathy Griffin releases photo holding a severed Trump head

  31-05-2017 02:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kathy Griffin says she knew her new photo shoot with Tyler Shields would “make noise.”
  Griffin appears in a photo posted online Tuesday holding what looks like President Donald Trump’s bloody, severed head.
  (Screengrab via Twitter)
  Her first tweet, which included the video, read, “1/ I caption this ‘there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his…wherever’ Also @tylershields great Photog/film maker.”
  I was
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 5-31-17

  31-05-2017 02:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Sheli Delaney will host.
  We’ll learn about what’s happening with REACH;
  Pat McLear will be here to highlight the Family Promise program;
  Kelsey Johnston, from the Alaskan Brewing Company, will discuss what’s happening at the Depot;
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Wednesday on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-News, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand on-line at ktoo.org
   
  
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• Fisherman’s body recovered from Copper River Flats

  31-05-2017 02:05
  
  Pete Dahl Slough is indicated by the marker. (Credit: Via Google Maps)
  The sole operator of a fishing boat was found dead in the Copper River Flats fishing area last Thursday night.
  According to Alaska State Troopers, the body of 69-year-old Clifford M. Johns, of Bothell, Washington, was recovered from the surf along the Pete Dahl Slough.
  Around 9 p.m., troopers received word of a fishing vessel, “Dances with Clams”, driving in circles with no one on board. Two Alaska Wildlife Troope
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: Will May gloom bring summer doom?

  31-05-2017 01:47 via ktoo.org
  
  A double rainbow forms over Waldron Lake Park in Anchorage on May 24th. (Photo by Brian Brettschneider)
  Does the gloomy May weather in Southcentral Alaska have you down? Climatologist Brian Brettscheider says not to worry — the bad weather pattern isn’t necessarily going to stick around for the rest of the summer.
  And he says the May weather hasn’t been too terrible compared to normal.
  Interview Transcript:
  Brian: It’s really been, kind of at or slightly above normal temp
  
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• Equipment outages force delays at Sea-Tac

  31-05-2017 01:24
  
  Alaska Airlines said in a statement Tuesday that Air Traffic Control equipment outages and low ceilings were contributing factors in a number of delays in and out of Sea-Tac.
  Approximately 90 Alaska Airlines and Virgin America flights scheduled to depart Seattle through noon were delayed up to two hours, affecting roughly 10,000 passengers, according to Alaska Airlines.
  “Guests traveling through Seattle today should check the status of their flights before they leave for the airport,&rdquo
  
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• Bogoslof volcano erupts again; forces aviation alert

  31-05-2017 01:16
  
  An Alaska volcano that has been active for nearly six months has erupted again.
  The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian Islands erupted at 2:16 p.m. Sunday and sent a cloud of ash at least 35,000 feet high. The eruption lasted 55 minutes.
  Ash can harm and stop jet engines. Ash from southwest Alaska volcanos is a threat for airliners operating between North America and Asia when a cloud rises above 20,000 feet.
  This spectacular photo of Bogoslof’s eruption plume
  
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• Portland stabbing suspect: ‘You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism!’

  31-05-2017 00:59 via ktoo.org
  
  4:40 p.m.
  Prosecutors say the man charged with stabbing three men aboard a Portland light-rail train confessed while in the back seat of a patrol car after his arrest.
  Court documents released Tuesday say Jeremy Joseph Christian was captured on video and audio surveillance saying he had stabbed three people in the neck. Two died.
  The probable cause affidavit written by Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Ryan Lufkin says Christian also calls himself a “patriot” and says, &ldquo
  
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• Second deceased passenger in Haines area plane crash identified

  31-05-2017 00:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska State Troopers have identified the second person who died in a weekend plane crash near Haines as Stanley Su Quoc Nguyen.
  Nguyen was 29 years old and from Garden Grove, California. His family has been notified.
  Nguyen and the Juneau pilot David Kunat, 29, died when their Piper PA-30 crashed about 10 miles south of Haines on Saturday morning.
  Juneau resident Chan Valentine, 31, was a passenger in the aircraft who was seriously injured in the crash.
  
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• Locals use backhoe, chain to save Haines plane crash survivor from rising tide

  31-05-2017 00:11
  
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  Watch KTVA 11 News at 5 & 6 p.m. tonight for complete coverage of this story.
  The lone survivor of a plane crash near Haines is recovering in a hospital in Seattle, due to the quick thinking and actions of local residents who saw the plane go down.
  Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Ian McGregor confirmed a twin engine Piper PA-30 crashed “under unknown circumst
  
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