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• Juneteenth celebration back in Anchorage

  18-06-2017 23:55
  
  The Fairview Lions Park hosted Juneteenth in Anchorage Saturday.
  The name and date recognize when slaves in Texas discovered they were free in June of 1865, a month after the Civil War ended and more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
  Event organizer Jasmin Smith said she remembers attending Juneteenth in Anchorage as a child and happy it’s back now that she’s an adult.
  “We’ve always done Juneteenth in Alaska,” Smith said. &ld
  
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• Don Young supports Puerto Rico statehood

  18-06-2017 23:41
  
  Alaska Congressman Don Young is supporting the addition of a new State of the Union.
  Alaska’s representative observed a statehood vote on Puerto Rico last week. Approximately 97 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of Puerto Rico becoming a state.
  It’s currently a U.S. territory whose congressional representative can’t vote on issues.
  Young says the arguments against statehood are familiar.
  “We were the 49th state, and I heard the same arguments then,” Young said
  
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• Anchorage golfer has fond memories of U.S. Open course

  18-06-2017 22:03
  
  Rolling hills, gorgeous views — those are among the things you notice at Wisconsin’s Erin Hills Golf Course. Some of the reasons it’s hosting the U.S. Open for the first time. Tom Farris is the head professional at the Anchorage Golf Course. He spent a good part of his life near Erin Hills, and also played it.
  “It’s an amazing experience, there’s no golf carts there, it’s all caddies,” Farris told KTVA Sports.
  The golf course stretches more than 8,
  
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• Why you should replace coconut oil with healthier fats

  18-06-2017 20:49
  
  The American Heart Association (AHA) released a report this week aimed at setting the record straight in the long-running debate over the healthiest fats.
  A recent New York Times survey found that 72 percent of Americans think coconut oil is healthy but only 37 percent of nutritionists agree with them.
  The AHA says that replacing saturated fats found in coconut oil or butter with vegetable oils like corn or peanut can lower cardiovascular disease by about 30 percent. That’s almost the same
  
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• Search for 7 missing U.S. Navy sailors called off after bodies found

  18-06-2017 20:24
  
  YOKOSUKA, Japan — The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan was called off Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship’s flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.
  Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, the commander of the Navy’s 7th Fleet, described the damage and flooding as extensive, including a big puncture under the waterline. The crew had to fight to keep the ship afloat, he said, and the ship’s
  
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• Daddy’s home: Millennial fathers amp up parenting

  18-06-2017 20:06
  
  Tony Dokoupil takes a Father’s Day look at a new generation of devoted Dads:
  Don’t let the sport coat fool you — Simon Isaacs is ready for the playground. He’s with his two-year-old daughter Kaia, selling imaginary tacos.
  And while Simon’s afternoon with her may not look like much, certainly no more than what many moms do every day, the 36-year-old entrepreneur sees it as a small act of revolution.
  Dokoupil asked, “When you talk about a social movement, are we
  
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• Man shot while robbing Anchorage hardware store

  18-06-2017 07:47
  
  A man was shot while trying to rob an Anchorage hardware store. Now, he’s in custody and the store owner is crediting a loss prevention officer with saving lives.
  Just after 5:00 p.m. Saturday, police say a man walked into Andy’s Ace Hardware in Muldoon and pulled out a gun.
  He “pointed it at the clerk working the cash register, demanded money from the cash register,” said Sgt. Jeremy Conkling.
  Owner Stephanie Van Ness was in the back of the store at the time and didn&rsq
  
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• Police investigating Eastside shooting

  18-06-2017 03:45
  
  Anchorage police say they are responding to an incident of shots fired at the Ace Hardware store located on the 200 block of Muldoon Road.
  A Nixle alert was sent 5:01 p.m. Saturday.
  No other information has been given at this time.
  This is a developing story; check back for updates.
  The post Police investigating Eastside shooting appeared first on KTVA 11.
  
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• Alaska aerospace company wants to launch more satellites

  18-06-2017 02:22 via ktoo.org
  
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska aerospace company wants to increase its launch frequency to at least two or three launches per year.
  The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports representatives from Alaska Aerospace Corporation spoke about their plans earlier this week at a town hall meeting in Kodiak. They told residents the advancement of small-launch vehicles provides an opportunity to send more satellites into space.
  Currently, companies or organizations that need to launch a small nano-satellite o
  
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• Homer recall effort fails, council members retain their seats

  18-06-2017 02:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Update | 11:08 a.m. June 19
  Council Members Tom Stroozas, David Lewis, Mayor Bryan Zak, Heath Smith, Shelly Erickson, Donna Aderhold and Catriona Reynolds. (Photo courtesy City of Homer)
  Three Homer City Council members subject of a highly contentious recall effort will retain their seats. Each council member was voted on individually.
  After the election day Tuesday, each council member obtained little more than 50 percent of the regular vote. Margins widened since the unofficial resul
  
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• All 3 Homer City Council members survive recall election

  18-06-2017 02:21 via ktoo.org
  
  HOMER, Alaska (AP) — The recall election in Homer has failed, and all three members of the city council will keep their seats.
  City officials say council members Donna Aderhold, David Lewis and Catriona Reynolds survived the recall election that was held after some residents were upset after the three sponsored a resolution promoting inclusivity after President Donald Trump’s election. A revised version that the council voted on did not mention Trump, and it failed.
  The count of outs
  
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• The Latest: Senate has a do-over on adjournment

  18-06-2017 02:16 via ktoo.org
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Senate bungled its adjournment from the first special session. But a Department of Law spokeswoman says that has no impact on Gov. Bill Walker’s proclamation calling a new special session.
  The Senate on Friday morning adjourned from the first special session without voting on whether to do so after Senate Minority Leader Berta Gardner objected. The House adjourned late Thursday.
  Walker issued a proclamation calling lawmakers into a new special session
  
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• Climber dies of unknown illness descending Denali

  18-06-2017 02:10 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The National Park Service in Alaska says a climber has died on Denali, North America’s highest mountain.
  The name, gender and nationality of the climber were not immediately released pending notification of the climber’s family.
  Denali’s summit is at 20,310 feet (6,190-meters).
  The park service received a request for help at about 1 a.m. Friday from a party at the 17,500-foot (5,334-meter) level.
  A party of three was descending from Denali Pass wh
  
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• Sitkan shoots bear dead after dog scuffle

  18-06-2017 02:06 via ktoo.org
  
  Cadets from the Public Safety Training Academy learn how to skin a bear that was shot earlier Wednesday morning. (Photo by Cameron Clark/KCAW)
  A Sitka man shot and killed a bear that was threatening his dog early Wednesday morning. Wildlife authorities later located the dead animal in a ravine 100 yards from his residence off of Halibut Point Road.
  Alaska Department of Fish and Game Biologist Stephen Bethune assisted troopers to find the bear.
  “It was probably a 400-pound bear or so, I&rsq
  
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• Audio postcard, slideshow: Coast Guard cutter Bailey Barco commissioning

  18-06-2017 01:33 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Ship’s crew salute during commissioning of U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bailey Barco in Juneau June 14, 2017. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  The brand new U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bailey Barco officially entered service during a commissioning ceremony in Juneau on Wednesday. KTOO captured audio and pictures from the event.Here’s an audio postcard of the sounds and voices from the event:http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/06/16baileybarco.mp3
  Speakers during the event include
  
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• Judge declares mistrial in Bill Cosby sexual assault case

  18-06-2017 01:09 via ktoo.org
  
  Bill Cosby looks on as spokesman Andrew Wyatt triumphantly raises his fist outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Saturday. Cosby’s legal and publicity team treated the mistrial as a victory, though prosecutors immediately said they plan to retry the case. Matt Rourke/AP
  Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET
  The judge in the sexual assault case of comedian Bill Cosby has declared a mistrial. After several days of deliberations, the jury could not come to a unanimous agreement on
  
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• Cholera Ravages Yemen

  18-06-2017 01:09 via ktoo.org
  
  War-torn Yemen is now being convulsed by cholera.
  Over the past six weeks, more than 124,000 suspected cholera cases have been reported. To put this in perspective, there were only 172,000 cases reported globally to the World Health Organization for all of 2015. To be fair, many cholera cases go unreported each year, but by any standard the current outbreak in Yemen is huge.
  “And geographically it is expanding,” says Mohamed El Montassir Hussein, the country director for the Internat
  
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• 7 U.S. sailors missing after Navy destroyer’s collision with merchant vessel

  18-06-2017 01:09 via ktoo.org
  
  The guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returns to Yokosuka, Japan, after its collision Saturday. Authorities say the ship’s flooding “has been stabilized,” but seven sailors remain unaccounted for.
  MC1 Peter Burghart/U.S. Navy
  Updated at 9:47 a.m. ET Saturday
  The USS Fitzgerald has reached port in Yokosuka, Japan, after the U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a large Philippine-flagged container ship. Seven sailors are unaccounted for and three more have been evacuated for t
  
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• Just before Father’s Day, dad donates kidney to son

  18-06-2017 00:47
  
  This Father’s Day, David Lipscomb gave his son Gage, 14, the best gift of all — a new kidney. The Texas 14-year-old’s only remaining kidney was failing until his dad stepped up. LIPSCOMB FAMILY
  Father’s Day is normally a time when kids give their dads a gift, but it’s the other way around for the Lipscomb family this year. David Lipscomb, who recently donated his kidney to his teenage son, said he wouldn’t have it any other way.
  In 2005, when Gage was just 2 y
  
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• Smirnoff Vodka ad hits on recent Trump, Russia controversies

  18-06-2017 00:41
  
  As Attorney General Jeff Sessions becomes the latest member of the Trump White House to testify on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Smirnoff Vodka’s newest ad is capitalizing on the recent spate of Congressional hearings and questions about any possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
  Smirnoff’s new advertisement under its new “Made in America” banner features a Moscow Mule cocktail with text that reads, “But we’d be happy to
  
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• U.S. soldiers wounded in ‘insider attack’

  18-06-2017 00:28
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. troops on Sunday, wounding at least seven, the U.S. military said. No U.S. service members or foreign fighters were killed in the attack.
  It was the second such insider attack by an Afghan soldier in the past week.
  Abdul Qahar Araam, spokesman for the 209th Army corps, confirmed that an insider attack took place at a camp in Mazar-e Sharif. Araam said the soldiers returned fire and killed the attacker.
  Gen. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman
  
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• 58 people presumed dead in London fire

  18-06-2017 00:24
  
  LONDON — U.K. police say 58 people who were in Grenfell Tower when a deadly fire broke out are still missing and presumed dead.
  Police Commander Stuart Cundy said Saturday that this number, which was based on reports from the public, may rise. He says it will take weeks or longer to recover and identify all the dead in the public housing block that was devastated by a fire early Wednesday.
  The new figure includes the 30 people previously presumed dead, police said.
  Grenfell Tower, the 24-s
  
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• 7 sailors missing from U.S. destroyer after collision

  18-06-2017 00:20
  
  The USS Fitzgerald U.S. NAVY / FLICKR
  TOKYO — Seven U.S. Navy sailors are missing after the USS Fitzgerald destroyer collided before dawn with a container ship four times its size off the coast of Japan, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
  A spokesman for the 7th Fleet said U.S. and Japanese aircraft continue to search for the missing sailors. The collision occurred at 2:30 a.m. local time about 56 nautical miles off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan, which is home to
  
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• Prosecutors vow Cosby retrial after jury deadlocks

  18-06-2017 00:18
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Prosecutors found themselves back to square one Saturday after the jury in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case declared itself hopelessly deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial for the 79-year-old TV star facing accusations he first drugged then molested a woman more than a decade ago.
  Cosby’s team declared victory, however temporary, as the comedian and actor once known as “America’s Dad” for his TV role as paternal Dr. Cliff Huxtable avoided a co
  
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