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• Alaskans rally ahead of U.S. Senate health care vote

  24-06-2017 23:15
  
  Dozens of Alaskans took to the Delaney Park Strip Friday with signs in hand to demanding their U.S. senators take a stand against the Senate’s proposed plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. T
  The bill, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act, includes significant cuts to Medicaid and defunds Planned Parenthood for a year while giving tax breaks to the wealthy.
  Both Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have avoided taking an official stance on the bill so far. Sulli
  
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• Bernie and Jane Sanders under FBI investigation

  24-06-2017 23:07
  
  Courtesy Bernie Sanders campaign website
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife, Jane Sanders have hired prominent defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane Sanders obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News confirms.
  Politico Magazine first reported the Sanders had hired lawyers to defend them in the probe. Sanders’ top adviser Jeff Weaver told CBS News the couple has sought legal protection over federal agents’ allegations from
  
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• ANSEP aims to excite students about STEM

  24-06-2017 04:31
  
  Anchorage students put their designs to the test Friday.
  They hooked a suspended box onto bridges they designed and built out of balsa wood and glue. They then put metal balls into the boxes until the bridges snapped.
  “This is a very good opportunity to learn,” Jason Kyle, a student at the academy, said. “I learned lots of stuff about bridges today, like how triangles are very powerful because they lean in on each other.”
  The 54 students learned about the strength to weig
  
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• Man accused in 7-car hit-and-run charged with DWI

  24-06-2017 03:20
  
  One man has a laundry list of charges after a hit-and-run on June 9 near the inbound intersection of the Glenn Highway and Airport Heights Drive.
  Jake Sundog Rotzler-Martus, 31, is charged with first- and third-degree assault, DWI, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, according to charging documents.
  On June 9, a driver of a Suburban is accused of rear-ending a semi-tractor trailer and leaving the scene with a flat tire, the documents said. The driver of the car was later iden
  
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• Alaska lawmakers headed home, but session isn’t over yet

  24-06-2017 02:50
  
  Many lawmakers are headed home after passing a budget late Thursday night to prevent a government shutdown next week. But the final gavel hasn’t fallen yet.
  If lawmakers felt a sense of accomplishment after finally passing a budget, the satisfaction was short-lived. Less than two hours later, Gov. Bill Walker added a new issue to their plate: a bill to revamp the state’s oil tax system, House Bill 111.
  The 30th Legislature is quickly approaching one of the longest stretches of consec
  
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• After passing budget, Alaska Legislature takes break

  24-06-2017 02:49 via ktoo.org
  
  House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, center, was among the lawmakers who gathered after the House passed the operating budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. The move avoided a state government shutdown, but left other major items unresolved. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)
  The Legislature avoided a state government shutdown by passing an operating budget Thursday, eight days before the deadline, but it hasn’t addressed the capital budget, or other important issues fa
  
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• Budget cuts threaten rollout of earthquake early warning system

  24-06-2017 02:32
  
  (Via CBSNews)
  In an earthquake, having the latest information could be key to survival.
  At the “quake cottage” in Burbank, California, scientists are working to warn people before earthquakes hit.
  The facility is home to a state-of-the-art quake simulator where you know exactly when the shaking is going to start.
  But what if you could get a warning before the real thing? Well, it does exist. It’s called ShakeAlert, reports CBS News’ Carter Evans.
  Its rollout had been set
  
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• F-16 Thunderbird crashes, flips over at Dayton International Airport

  24-06-2017 02:29
  
  A Thunderbird jet flipped over after taxi at Dayton International Airport on Friday, June 23, 2017. TY GREENLEES/WHIO
  DAYTON, Ohio — A military plane that was practicing for an air show in heavy fog has crashed at an airport in Ohio, officials said Friday.
  CBS affiliate WHIO-TV reports an F-16 Thunderbird crashed and overturned shortly before 1 p.m. at the end of a runway at Dayton International Airport.
  The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds confirmed crew members were “conducting a famili
  
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• Was Russian hacking of Ukraine’s power grid a test run for U.S. attack?

  24-06-2017 02:27
  
  In its July cover story, Wired magazine takes an in-depth look at a years-long string of cyberattacks in Ukraine that could have global implications. It has undermined every sector including the media, military, politics and even people’s homes.
  Andy Greenberg, who reported the story, and Wired editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson joined “CBS This Morning” to discuss the findings and what the implications could be for the United States.
  The Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power
  
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• White St. Louis police officer shoots off-duty black officer

  24-06-2017 02:24
  
  A black off-duty St. Louis police officer was shot by a white on-duty police officer from the same department who apparently mistook him for a fleeing suspect, according to a statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
  At about 10 p.m. Wednesday evening, St. Louis police received a report that a stolen vehicle had been spotted. Officers laid down spike strips and turned on their lights, but the occupants of the vehicle allegedly opened fire on police. Officers followed the car u
  
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• Teen’s molester moves in next door upon prison release

  24-06-2017 02:19
  
  Danyelle Dyer (Credit: KWTV)
  CREEK COUNTY, Oklahoma – An Oklahoma family wants to change the state law that allowed the man who molested their daughter years ago to move in next door after getting out of prison, reports CBS affiliate KWTV.
  “I don’t like feel like I can come home,” says Danyelle Dyer, who is now speaking out about the case. “This is my safe zone and it’s not really my safe zone anymore.”
  State laws say sex offenders cannot live near schoo
  
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• Hydaburg boater goes missing, prompting search effort

  24-06-2017 02:14 via ktoo.org
  
  Search-and-rescue efforts were under way Friday for a 21-year-old Hydaburg man whose empty boat was found floating off Prince of Wales Island on Thursday evening.
  According to the online Alaska State Troopers dispatch, an empty boat operated by Francis Charles was found about 5.5 nautical miles southeast of Hydaburg.
  The U.S. Coast Guard is in charge of the search.
  Coast Guard Public Information Officer Meredith Manning said Fridaythat Charles left Hydaburg on Thursday afternoon for a fish camp
  
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• Washington state lawmakers could be close to agreement on spending, taxes

  24-06-2017 02:09 via ktoo.org
  
  After weeks of deadlock, Washington lawmakers could be close to reaching an agreement in principle on a state budget, House and Senate budget writers said Friday.
  “Yeah, I think we can get it sorted out by the end of the day,” Democrat Timm Ormby, House budget chair, said of an agreement being negotiated on how much the state budget will spend over the next two years and where the money will come from — though the details are still to be worked out.
  Republican John Br
  
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• Gardentalk – Deadheading and division

  24-06-2017 02:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Close up view of daffodils in a North Douglas yard that disparately need to be deadheaded. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Flowers and blooms from this spring’s annuals and bulbs are probably looking pretty pitiful by now. Beside just aesthetics, it’s also a good idea to start deadheading or cutting off the seed pods and wilted blooms of some plants.
  As Master Gardener Ed Buyarski explained in the latest edition of Gardentalk, deadheading allows bulbs and plants like fuschias or rhododen
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 6-26-17

  24-06-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Today on A Juneau Afternoon, Ben Brown hostsWe’ll talk with Marian Call about her album release party on Wednesday at the Amalga Distillery;And Mercedes Munoz will be here to highlight activities at the CANVAS;
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTPP, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on-demand via ktoo.org
  
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• Juneau makes collection of property mapping data easier to access online

  24-06-2017 01:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/06/23GIS.mp3It’s been about a year since the City & Borough of Juneau made reams land, property and mapping data readily available to the public through a web-based application.
  In the past year, conservationists, landscape architects and second-grade teachers are using the city’s Parcel Viewer system.
  Each second-grade student painted their own section of the map. The project was to help them learn about mapping, Tlingit history a
  
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• 3 common iPhone battery problems and how to fix them

  24-06-2017 01:40
  
  Is your iPhone slowing down with age? Or, in the case of its battery life, speeding up? One of the first signs of age on an iPhone is the battery not holding a charge as long as it once did. Of course, you might also experience odd battery behavior on a relatively new iPhone, where the battery conks out before the meter hits zero.
  Here are three common battery problems — short battery life, shutting off unexpectedly, getting warm while charging — and how to fix them.
  My battery dies
  
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