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• A Pulse Nightclub Responder Confronts A New Crisis: PTSD

  12-06-2017 22:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Gerry Realin, left, and his wife, Jessica, are working to get first responders workers’ compensation benefits in Florida. (Photo by Abe Aboraya/WMFE)
  Gerry Realin wishes he had never become a police officer.
  Realin, 37, was part of the hazmat team that responded to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 12, 2016.
  He spent four hours taking care of the dead inside the club.
  Now, triggers like a Sharpie marker or a white sheet yank him out of the moment and back to the nightclu
  
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• UPDATE: Police name victim in deadly downtown stabbing

  12-06-2017 22:26
  
  (Kyle Rea - Courtesy: Facebook) (Kyle Rea - Courtesy: Facebook)
  Anchorage police have identified the victim in last Thursday’s deadly stabbing on East Third Avenue.
  Police say 24-year-old Kyle A. Rea was killed in the stabbing that occurred near the Brother Francis Shelter and Beans Cafe.
  Police say Rea was stabbed on the sidewalk. He then walked to Bean’s Cafe for help, where staff started first aid and called 911.
  He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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• Cordova hosts U.S. Senate field hearing on microgrids

  12-06-2017 22:01 via ktoo.org
  
  Gwen Holdmann of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, left, and Meera Kohler of the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, testified before U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Maria Cantwell on June 10, 2017 in Cordova. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  When it comes to emerging energy technologies, many remote Alaska communities are on the cutting edge. That was the message from Cordova this weekend, where U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski held a field hearing of the Senate Ene
  
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• Golfer hits Anchorage links as part of dream trip

  12-06-2017 21:57
  
  And you think you have a golf story?
  Soren Jacobsen turns 50 this year. He liked to golf and travel — lots of enthusiasts combine them, but, not like this.
  On Wednesday night, Jacobsen flew into Ted Stevens International Airport. Nothing special there. He was leaving the airport and heading straight for the Anchorage golf course. It was already around 10 p.m. Strange enough though, there’s still light this time of year. But, an evening round just began it.
  This was his forty-ninth ro
  
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• Flags at half-staff for former Alaska attorney general

  12-06-2017 21:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Flags are at half-staff in honor of former Alaska attorney general and lifelong University of Alaska advocate, Grace Schaible of Fairbanks.
  Schaible died Saturday at the age of 91.
  Schaible grew up in Juneau, graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, George Washington University and Yale Law School. Returning to Alaska, she practiced law in Fairbanks, and in 1987 became Alaska’s first woman attorney general under former Governor Steve Cowper.
  In a news release announcing Scha
  
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• Story Time w/ Aunt Phil: Bogoslof Volcano

  12-06-2017 21:34
  
   
  Forty of the world’s 800 active volcanoes are here in Alaska – and most of them are along the Aleutian Arc, extending from central Alaska along the Alaska Peninsula and down the Aleutian Islands toward eastern Russia.
  This also is known as the northern portion of the Ring of Fire, where the Pacific plates meet other plates and have a lot of earthquakes and volcanic activity.
  One of those volcanoes, Bogoslof, has been sporadically erupting since mid-December, and a few weeks ag
  
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• Another federal appeals court says Trump’s travel ban should remain on hold

  12-06-2017 19:41 via ktoo.org
  
  The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s travel ban should remain in effect, at least for now.
  The decision centers on an executive order from the president to temporarily suspend the admission of refugees and limit travel from some majority-Muslim countries. It’s Trump’s second attempt to impose such a policy; it has been blocked by lawsuits and never gone into effect.
  There are multiple cases pending against the
  
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• Alaskans rally in midtown against government shutdown

  12-06-2017 19:14
  
  State workers, educators and others rallied in midtown Sunday afternoon, upset about the looming government shut down.
  Thousands of state employees have received pink slips warning they could be laid off July 1.
  Speakers at the rally said if there is a government shut down, not one legislative seat will be safe in Alaska. Every seat will be challenged at the polls.
  KTVA reached out to several lawmakers in the house and senate Sunday. House minority leader, Representative Charisse Millett respond
  
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• 2 boaters missing in Western Alaska

  12-06-2017 19:11
  
  Two people are missing after heading into the water on a wooden rowboat in Wales.
  The Coast Guard is helping the community search for a 23-year-old man and 14-year-old boy who left Wales early Sunday morning.
  Villagers said about a half hour later they could be heard from shore shouting for help.
  The Coast Guard said neither had a life jacket or survival gear.
  A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew arrived on scene Sunday afternoon and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew is en route.
  This is a
  
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• New Coast Guard Cutter to be commissioned in Alaska

  12-06-2017 19:09
  
  A new Coast Guard Cutter will be commissioned in Juneau this week.
  The fast response Coast Guard Cutter, Bailey Barco, is the second of its class to be commissioned in Alaska, according to the Juneau Empire.
  The crew is traveling 6,200 miles from Key West, Florida, to bring it to its new home port of Ketchikan.
  The ceremony will take place June 14 in Juneau.
  The post New Coast Guard Cutter to be commissioned in Alaska appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Haines recall petitions certified; special election set for Aug. 15

  12-06-2017 18:50 via ktoo.org
  
  Haines will have a special recall election on August 15.
  Borough Clerk Julie Cozzi announced Friday evening that petitions to recall three Haines Borough Assembly members had been certified. That means each petition had signatures from at least 258 registered borough voters.
  The recall is aimed at ousting Assembly members Heather Lende, Tom Morphet and Tresham Gregg. All three are accused of violating open meetings laws. Lende and Morphet are also accused of coercing a subordinate for personal o
  
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• SWAT training planned for West Anchorage Monday

  12-06-2017 17:50
  
  The Anchorage Police Department will be conducting SWAT training in West Anchorage Monday.
  A Nixle alert was sent out early Monday morning alerting the public of SWAT training being conducted in an old building near the intersection of Spenard Road and McKinley Avenue from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  Police vehicles and loud booms can be expected sporadically throughout the day.
  If you have any questions, comments or concerns contact APD at (907) 786-8900.
  The post SWAT training planned for West
  
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• New Coast Guard cutter to be commissioned Wednesday in Juneau

  12-06-2017 16:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Coast Guard Cutter Bailey Barco pulls into its homeport of Ketchikan on May 12, 2017. The vessel and its crew completed a journey of 7,130 miles to reach Alaska from Key West, Florida. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)
  The U.S Coast Guard will honor the legacy of a man it says performed heroically near the turn of the 20th century.
  The Alaska-based Bailey Barco fast-response cutter will be commissioned Wednesday in a closed ceremony at the AJ Dock off Thane Road in Juneau.
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• Alaska woman sentenced to probation for animal cruelty

  12-06-2017 07:59 via ktoo.org
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska officials say a woman who was accused of letting her injured and pregnant dog suffer was sentenced Thursday to one year of probation and one year of suspended time.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports 49-year-old April Gutierrez will not be allowed to any animals or be around them without supervision following the incident two years ago.
  Charging documents say Gutierrez did not seek help for her dog after it was hit by a car until the animal began to chew
  
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• Coast Guard report: Fatal boating wrecks double in Alaska

  12-06-2017 07:58 via ktoo.org
  
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A report by the U.S. Coast Guard shows that fatal recreational-boating accidents in Alaska have doubled over the last year.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports there were 14 fatal boating wrecks that killed 19 people in 2016. That’s seven more boating accidents and 12 more fatalities than in 2015.
  The Alaska Public Information Office says four of the fatal 2016 accidents took place in southeast Alaska.
  According to the Coast Guard, the number of recreational-boa
  
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• Nineteen new wildfires appear in western Alaska within a day

  12-06-2017 07:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Since yesterday, nineteen new fires have started west of the Yukon River in the Galena zone, an area of about 93 million acres. These latest blazes raise the current number of active wildfires in Alaska to about 50.
  Beth Ipsen is the spokesperson for Bureau of Land Management’s Alaska Fire Service. Ipsen says these fires extend from Southwestern Alaska to the North Slope.
  “Many of these fires were discovered along the Western coast from Unalakleet to Point Romanof. When Galena s
  
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• FAA addresses aircraft noise concerns in Homer

  12-06-2017 07:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Floatplanes on Beluga Lake in Homer. (Photo by Aaron Bolton/KBBI)
  Floatplanes and other aircraft are taking off from Beluga Lake and Homer’s airport several times a day. With more than a handful of flightseeing, bear viewing and air taxi operations in town, some residents are concerned about low flying aircraft and the noise that accompanies them.
  Homer City Council member Donna Aderhold started hearing complaints last year during a meeting about a floatplane access road. She started worki
  
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• Alaska search and rescue K9s train in the Mat-Su Valley

  12-06-2017 03:51
  
  Search and rescue volunteers and K9s from across Alaska participated in a statewide water rescue training in the Mat-Su Valley over the weekend.
  The volunteer groups “MATSARK9” from the Mat-Su, “Seadogs” from Juneau and “Paws” from Fairbanks sent teams to practice detecting drowning victims in lakes and rivers.
  “You’ll see her reaction when she catches a scent,” explained Marty Williams with Paws — as his dog Maya started to work.
  A sou
  
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• “Sweat” playwright: “I felt like I was holding a hammer in my hand”

  12-06-2017 03:14
  
  (“Sweat” / CBS News)
  Sunday’s Tony Awards is Broadway’s biggest night, and while musicals usually get most of the attention, the play “Sweat” is up for three awards and has already won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
  The play captures, and some say predicted, a number of the most important and divisive issues of our time, such as race, class and immigration, reports CBS News’ Jamie Wax.
  Tony Awards 2017: How to watch
  Research, humanity and tremendous talen
  
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• Tony-nominated women playwrights say it’s lonely at the top

  12-06-2017 03:09
  
  Tony-nominated playwrights Paula Vogel and Lynn Nottage say that gender inequality isn’t just a problem in Hollywood — it stretches to Broadway, as well.
  Vogel has won a Pulitzer Prize, but she tells Meg Oliver of CBS News that it took her more than two decades to break through on Broadway with her play “Indecent.”
  Kevin Spacey tight-lipped about Tony Awards plans
  “Theater is no different than any other field,” she explains. “It takes longer, I think, fo
  
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• 3 Juveniles in custody after a girl was shot with pellet gun

  12-06-2017 02:59
  
  Three juveniles were taken into custody after a girl suffered a pellet gun wound to the leg Sunday afternoon.
  Anchorage police say they responded to the 4200 block of Mountain View Drive just before 3 p.m. for a report of shots fired and one person hurt.
  Anchorage Fire Department and medics determined the victim suffered a wound caused by a pellet gun. Her injuries were treated at the scene, police said.
  Police said they were able to make the arrests thanks to some citizens who said they saw whe
  
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• The best and worst places to be a kid

  12-06-2017 02:42 via ktoo.org
  
  A recent report from Save the Children documents what many people have known for a long time — a baby is far better off being born in Europe than in sub-Saharan Africa.
  It’s a point that has been made before. “But it’s important that Save the Children and others keep bringing it up and putting it before the public because it can be forgotten, ignored or passed over amidst the news of the day,” says Robert Black, the director of international programs at the Johns Ho
  
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• Not a random attack: New details emerge from investigation of slain NPR journalists

  12-06-2017 02:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Journalists David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on the road to Marjah, Afghanistan, last year during a reporting trip.
  Isabel Seliger for NPR
  NPR journalists David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna died a year ago this week, ambushed on a remote road in southern Afghanistan while on a reporting assignment traveling with the Afghan National Army.
  Since their deaths, NPR has been investigating what happened, and today we are sharing new information about what we learned. It’s a very
  
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• Puerto Rico overwhelmingly votes on U.S. statehood in non-binding referendum

  12-06-2017 02:37 via ktoo.org
  
  A woman exits the voting booth in San Juan during Puerto Rico’s non-binding referendum Sunday. Puerto Rican voters are weighing whether to ask Congress for statehood. Carlos Giusti/AP
  Updated at 5:52 p.m.
  Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly voted for U.S. statehood for their island in a non-binding referendum on Sunday.
  The Associated Press reports that only partial results are in but a low turnout and boycott by several opposition parties calls into question the validity of the non-binding vote.
  
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• Researchers find oldest Homo sapien remains yet

  12-06-2017 02:27
  
  A stunning discovery in North Africa is rewriting the story of mankind.
  The oldest known fossils of our species have been unearthed in Morocco, scientists reported on Wednesday.
  At about 300,000 years old, they are 100,000 years older than other Homo sapiens remains. It’s northwestern African location is thousands of miles from eastern Africa, the region of the previous most ancient findings.
  The bones reveal people from an early stage of our species’ evolution.
  “In the Jebel
  
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• Are you skipping that doctor visit or pill you need?

  12-06-2017 02:03
  
  With medical costs continuing to rise along with the uncertainty about the future of health insurance coverage, new research shows more Americans are going without the health care they need.
  A survey released Wednesday from Bankrate.com found that one in four American families have not sought medical care because they couldn’t afford it. Thirteen percent of respondents had no insurance, while the rest had a mix of employer-sponsored, individual and Medicaid coverage. The bulk of uninsured
  
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• Recreational boating deaths in Alaska are up

  12-06-2017 01:37
  
  A report by the U.S. Coast Guard says fatal recreational boating accidents in Alaska have doubled in the past year.
  There were 14 deadly boating wrecks that killed 19 people in 2016. That’s seven more boating accidents and 12 more deaths than in 2015, according to the Ketchikan Daily News.
  The Alaska Public Information Office said four of the fatalities in 2016 came from the Southeast.
  The Coast Guard says the number of recreational boating accidents has increased nationwide over the past
  
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• Alaska woman sentenced for letting her pregnant dog suffer

  12-06-2017 01:12
  
  A woman accused of letting her pregnant dog suffer after being hit by a car was sentenced Thursday.
  According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 49-year-old April Gutierrez will not be allowed around any animals without supervision following the incident two years ago.
  Charging documents say Gutierrez’ dog was hit by a car and she did not seek help until it began to chew off its left hind foot.
  There were maggots on the injured leg and bones and tendons were exposed, said veterinarian staf
  
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• High school insisted student cover U.S. Army uniform at graduation

  12-06-2017 00:30
  
  (Harland Fletcher/CBS San Francisco)
  BRENTWOOD, Calif. — A high school student in California wanted to show off his military pride at his graduation ceremony by wearing his U.S. Army uniform, but school administrators insisted he cover it up, violating military code, CBS San Francisco reports.
  Harland Fletcher, a senior at Liberty High School in Brentwood, California, says the proudest achievement of his life was to wear his military uniform.
  “I talked to my counselor the day before
  
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• Polar bears face new challenge as sea ice becomes speedier, study says

  12-06-2017 00:21
  
  Rapid global warming has sped up the movement of sea ice off Alaska’s coasts, and already at-risk polar bears are paying a price, a new U.S. study says.
  Most sea ice moves throughout the year and the iconic white bears are on a perpetual walk to stay within their preferred habitat, said U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist George Durner, lead author of the study.
  Study: Polar bears could feel bite of climate change by 2025
  He compares it to living on a treadmill that has picked up sp
  
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• Here’s what happens to NBA players who tweet the night before a game

  12-06-2017 00:05
  
  (LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers dunks in the third quarter against the Boston Celtics during Game Five of the 2017 NBA Eastern Conference Finals at TD Garden in Boston, May 25, 2017.
  Elsa / Getty Images)
  New research suggests that pro basketball players who tweet the night away before a game turn in a poorer performance on the court the next day.
  The likely culprit? A lack of sleep, researchers said.
  “Using late-night tweeting activity as a proxy for being up late, we interpre
  
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