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• Newscast – Thursday, June 15, 2017

  15-06-2017 22:45 via ktoo.org
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/06/newscast62017.mp3In this newscast
  Coast Guard cutter commissioned.
  Burglary in Mendenhall Valley, suspect caught quickly.
  Bear attack near Anchorage.
  
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• Judge delivers blow to Trump administration in Dakota Access fight

  15-06-2017 22:05 via ktoo.org
  
  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration failed to follow proper environmental procedures when it granted approval to the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project.
  It’s a legal victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and environmentalists, who protested for months against the pipeline. Oil started flowing through it earlier this month. The tribe fears that the pipeline, which crosses the Missouri River just upstream of its reservation, could
  
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• Telling Tales – 6-13-17

  15-06-2017 21:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  “Lizard Boy” by Peter Andrews
  –Friendship, gotta take the good & bad and a little crazy.
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• Fun things to do in Southcentral Alaska this weekend

  15-06-2017 21:48
  
  Code Breaker
  When: June 16, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
  Location: Mountain View Library
  Price: Free
  Family event
  Anchorage Mayor’s Marathon & Half Marathon
  When: June 17
  Location: Various start locations
  Price: Up to $190
  Marathon, half marathon, 5k run and relays
  Marathon results can be used to qualify for the Boston Marathon
  Online registration is closed, click here for information about last chance registration
  Downtown Summer Solstice Festival
  When: June 17, noon to 6 p.m.
  Location: Dow
  
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• Blimp catches fire, crashes at U.S. Open

  15-06-2017 21:45
  
  The Washington County Sheriff’s Office responded to a crash at the U.S. Open, where a blimp crashed to the ground after apparently catching fire.
  At least one person is injured, officials said.
  Witnesses reported seeing the blimp catch fire and crew members parachuting out.
  Jeff Alstadter, a spokesman for the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) tells CBS News officials were still gathering information about the crash.
  The post Blimp catches fire, crashes at U.S. Open appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Alaska Aces are moving to Portland

  15-06-2017 21:02
  
  Three Kelly Cup Championships, plenty of memories. That’s all fans have left at professional hockey in Alaska has ended. The ECHL announced Thursday morning the Alaska Aces will move to Portland, Maine. The league approved the sale of the team to Philadelphia-based Comcast Spectacor, which owns the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers.
  The team will begin play in the ECHL in October 2018 at the Cross Insurance Arena, with a new name and mascot.
  Portland has been without a te
  
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• Southeast tribal organization says it will support the Paris Climate Accord

  15-06-2017 20:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Central Council president Richard Peterson. (Photo courtesy CCTHITA)
  The largest tribe in Alaska is sticking by the Paris Climate Change Accord.Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska says it will continue to support the agreement, which aims to reduce the world’s carbon emissions and slow climate change.
  Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would be pulling out of the accord, joining countries like Nicaragua and Syria.
  Central Council
  
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• Missing teen girl sought by police

  15-06-2017 19:09
  
  Thyleah Maddox-Livengood. (Credit: APD)
  Anchorage Police are searching for a young teenage girl who is missing.
  Thyleah Maddox-Livengood, 13, was last seen in the area of Debarr Road and Boniface Parkway around 4:30 Wednesday afternoon.
  Thyleah is described as a black female standing 5-foot-8 and weighing about 160 pounds; she was last seen wearing pigtails, a black sweatsuit, white Adidas tennis shoes with black stripes and a backpack.
  If you have any information on her whereabouts, you&rs
  
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• Treasurer for Alaska movie industry union charged in theft of nearly $200K

  15-06-2017 19:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The former treasurer of an entertainment industry union that raked in money during Alaska’s film-making boom is charged with stealing nearly $200,000 from the union.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170614-05.mp3Anchorage resident Ann Reddig, 62, was formally charged in federal court Friday with embezzlement and forgery.
  Reddig has a court date set for June 26, and the court has issued her a summons, but she is not in custody.
  Prosecutors refuse to comment on whether they know where to
  
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• Alaska warrant issued for Florida airport shooter

  15-06-2017 18:50 via ktoo.org
  
  The man accused of killing five people at a Florida airport faces more legal trouble in Alaska.
  An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for Esteban Santiago, 27, for failing to appear at a sentencing hearing on an earlier domestic violence charge in Anchorage.
  The judge issued the warrant after court workers could not reach him on the phone to participate in the hearing from Florida.
  This essentially puts the Alaska case in limbo as the Santiago faces federal charges in the Jan. 6 deadly shooting
  
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• Cosby jury deadlocks; judge orders further deliberations

  15-06-2017 18:40 via ktoo.org
  
  After more than 30 hours of jury deliberations, there is still no conclusion to the sexual assault trial of comedian Bill Cosby.
  The members of the jury say they are deadlocked and “cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of these counts.” The judge has ordered jurors to return to deliberations and try — again — to reach a decision.
  Cosby has been charged with multiple felony counts of aggravated indecent assault, over allegations that he drugged and molested Andrea C
  
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• U.S. Senate committee advances bill to make Native tribes eligible for Amber Alert grants

  15-06-2017 16:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Tuesday approved a bill, S.722, that would make Native tribes eligible for Amber Alert grants.
  Amber Alerts are emergency broadcasts in the event of a child abduction.
  The bill would also create a permanent program that provides tribes with Amber Alert training.
  According to a draft resolution from the National Congress of American Indians, more than 7,000 American Indian children are listed as missing in the U.S.
  Amber Alerts were first i
  
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• USCGC Bailey Barco commissioned in Juneau, begins service in Southeast Alaska

  15-06-2017 10:00 via ktoo.org
  
  USCGC Bailey Barco’s original crew at commissioning, called plank owners, await the start of the commissioning ceremony in Juneau on June 14, 2017. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  The U.S. Coast Guard’s newest vessel for Alaska entered service on Wednesday with a commissioning ceremony on the downtown Juneau waterfront.
  The 154-foot USCGC Bailey Barco will be homeported in Ketchikan, but it is expected to patrol most of Southeast Alaska.
  “For the President of the United States, I h
  
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• Senate bill confusion in infant manslaughter plea deal

  15-06-2017 08:09
  
  A woman accused of abandoning her baby in 2013 was set to make a plea deal in court Wednesday on a manslaughter charge, but, that didn’t happen.
  Ashley Ard was an Anchorage-based soldier when police say she gave birth to a child at home, then left the infant in an Eagle River park, who later died.
  Wednesday she planned to change her plea of not guilty, but, there was confusion between attorneys about the range of punishment. The defense attorney said Ard wanted to change her plea, based on
  
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• Study rates only 2 of 37 midsize SUVs headlights ‘good’

  15-06-2017 07:36
  
  A new study out Tuesday morning shows many midsize SUV’s struggle to light up the roads at night.
  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety looked at headlights on 37 different models.
  Only two got good reviews and eleven models received poor grades.
  While all the headlights on every SUV in the study do meet federal standards, those given a poor grade by the IIHS — like the Dodge Journey — may keep drivers from seeing obstacles in the road with enough time to properly react, r
  
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• Could a drone help save a life faster than an ambulance?

  15-06-2017 07:26
  
  YouTube videos, Amazon delivery, military operations, farming – you name it, drones are being used for everything from aerial photography and delivering packages to conducting surveillance and tending crops. Now the medical world is exploring new ways to use drones, too.
  A study by Swedish researchers looked at how drones compare to ambulances at delivering lifesaving defibrillator devices to patients suffering from cardiac arrest and found drones are faster. But the technology has pr
  
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• Sunken tugboat pulled out of Starrigavan Bay

  15-06-2017 07:17
  
  (The Powhatan secured onboard the KP‐2 deck barge. Photo credit: Samson Tug & Barge, June 12, 2017.) (The crane on board the barge Salvation lifting the tug Powhatan, with the Alaskan Salvor and the Maia H. standing by. Photo credit: Samson Tug & Barge, June 12, 2017.)
  A tugboat that sank near Sitka in April and was pulled out of Starrigavan Bay on Monday.
  According to a release from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the tug Powhatan sank at the Samsun Tug and B
  
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• ACLU and DOC teams up to lower use of solitary confinement

  15-06-2017 06:34
  
  The ACLU of Alaska and the Alaska Department of Corrections is working together to reduce solitary confinement in state jails and prisons.
  Joining this effort are solitary confinement experts from New York University who are touring Anchorage Correctional Complex, Spring Creek Correctional Center and Goose Creek Correctional Center this week.
  “Our instances of segregation are trickling down, but, we want more,” Bruce Busby, director of institutions with Alaska DOC, said during Wednes
  
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• Shareholders consider shrinking Sealaska board

  15-06-2017 05:54 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Sealaska corporate headquarters is in Juneau. The Southeast regional Native corporation will hold its annual meeting June 24 in Hydaburg. (Photo by Casey Kelly/KTOO)
  Should Southeast’s regional Native corporation shrink its governing board? That’s a question before Sealaska’s more than 22,000 shareholders. Management opposes the change.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/06/14Ballot-L.mp3Juneau-headquartered Sealaska has 13 members on its board of directors.
  Shareholder
  
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• Birth certificates, opioid response potentially impacted by looming government shutdown

  15-06-2017 04:58
  
  The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is working to determine the impact of a potential government shutdown if the legislature doesn’t pass a budget before July 1.
  Commissioner Valerie Davidson said programs that will stay open are those that “affect life, health and safety,” and ones that are “constitutional mandates under the Alaska Constitution and federal requirements.”
  Those facilities include the Pioneer Homes, Juvenile Justice Facility, a
  
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• Police work to clean up sidewalk campers not using the shelter

  15-06-2017 04:56
  
  Anchorage Police are still looking for a stabbing suspect who murdered a man on the sidewalk near the Brother Francis Shelter last Thursday. But, in the days since it happened, officers have made a big difference in cleaning up sidewalks in the area.
  Officer Gordon Korell of the Community Action Policing Team (CAP) said the CAP team has been patrolling in the area every day for the last few weeks, asking people to take down tents and move on. On Wednesday afternoon, the result was noticeable.
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• Muni gardeners plant L-Street mystery garden

  15-06-2017 04:52
  
  City gardeners spent Wednesday morning planting an Anchorage landmark.
  The L-Street mystery garden features a new design every year and the subject is top secret until the blooms reveal the new image.
  This summer, the floral mural is made of nearly 900 bright orange marigolds and 3,500 purple alyssums.
  Even when they’re done with their work, muni gardeners still won’t tell you what it’s supposed to be, only that it’s something they’ve been working on for quite some
  
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• Ride-hailing companies to return to Alaska roads Thursday

  15-06-2017 04:48
  
  You may soon see Uber and Lyft on roads across Alaska.
  Governor Bill Walker is expected to sign a bill on Thursday afternoon that opens the door for ride-hailing companies to operate within the state.
  Once signed, the new law will take effect immediately.
  Lyft representatives say they have drivers in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau — Anchorage is ready to go.
  “Studies have shown that Lyft has injected about 750 million dollars into local economies where we operate, so, we are really
  
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• Alaska House votes to restore full PFD funding

  15-06-2017 03:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, speaks on the House floor last year. She proposed an amendment restoring full Permanent Fund dividend funding that the House passed 26-14 on Wednesday. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  The Alaska House voted to restore Permanent Fund dividends to the full projected amount of roughly $2,200 this fall.
  Anchorage Republican Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux said during a floor session that she doesn’t support cutting PFDs without requiring oil companies to pay
  
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• Naknek’s Fishy Fabrications takes on skiff building this spring

  15-06-2017 02:49 via ktoo.org
  
  
  George Wilson puts the finishing touches on the second skiff Fishy Fabrications has built this spring. (Photo by KDLG)
  Bristol Bay has a big fishery but not a big marine services industry, beyond the seasonal shops that show up in the summer.
  This spring a local fabricator in Naknek expanded their business to try building a few set net skiffs from the ground up.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170613-10.mp3Fishy Fabrications, a local business in Naknek, has started building skiffs from the groun
  
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• Two boaters found dead south of Unalakleet after joint search and rescue efforts

  15-06-2017 02:11 via ktoo.org
  
  What started as search-and-rescue efforts turned into a death investigation in Unalakleet.
  Two boaters, Peter Nanouk, 55, and Justin Nanouk, 35, from Unalakleet, were reported overdue Sunday evening, according Alaska State Troopers.
  The two relatives were reportedly heading south towards Klikitarik to fish.
  After searchers from St. Michael did not locate the fishermen on Monday, more volunteers in boats joined the search efforts in the area.
  Peter Nanouk’s boat, an aluminum open-top skiff,
  
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• AST: Palmer man strangled female relative

  15-06-2017 01:01
  
  Alaska State Troopers have arrested a man accused of strangling a female relative.
  Troopers responded to a call in Butte around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday. As they approached the scene, authorities say troopers observed 31-year-old William Olinger strangling a female family member.
  Olinger reportedly threw the woman onto the ground and strangled her until she went unconscious.
  The victim sustained minor injuries before troopers apprehended the suspect. Olinger is charged with one count each of assault in
  
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• Workforce Wednesday: Helmets to Hardhats

  15-06-2017 00:37
  
  Alaska Helmets to Hardhats is a program by Alaska Works Partnership along with Alaska Department of Labor that connects veterans or people exiting the military to free classes and training for careers in construction.
  Rene Eliste, an apprentice with Alcan Electrical and Engineering says it helped him land his career in telecommunications engineering. Helmets to Hardhats isn’t limited to just that career as prospective job seekers can become sheet metal workers, laborers, millwrights and mo
  
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• Alaska House votes to approve $2200 PFD

  15-06-2017 00:20
  
  The Alaska House has added hundreds of millions of dollars to the state capital budget to bump up this year’s permanent fund dividend to around $2,200 a person– a sharp increase from last year’s check of $1,022.
  Across party lines, the House on Wednesday voted 26-14 to add $700 million to allow for full payment of this year’s permanent fund dividend, as calculated by law. Earlier this year, both the House and Senate passed versions of a bill that would have called for sma
  
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