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• Newscast – Tuesday, July 11, 2017

  11-07-2017 23:25 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/20170711-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully intercepts a test intermediate-range ballistic missile with a weapon system in Kodiak,
  the Catholic Diocese of Juneau announces its new bishop,
  state transportation officials say the retired ferry Taku has an interested buyer, and
  Facebook cracks down on posts about legal marijuana sales in Alaska.
  
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• Deep-release puts the pressure on rockfish survival

  11-07-2017 23:17 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Take your pick: Whether homemade or a commercial design, every sport fishing boat in Southeast Alaska must have a deep-release mechanism on board beginning August 1. (Photo by Robert Woolsey/KCAW)
  For sport anglers in Southeast Alaska having a slow day trying for salmon or halibut this August there will be no “plan B” for bottom-dwelling rockfish.
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing all sportfishing for nonpelagic rockfish in outside waters from Yakutat to Ketchikan for
  
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• Alaska hiker recovering after bison attack in North Dakota

  11-07-2017 23:07
  
  WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – A Juneau man is recovering after being attacked by a bison while hiking in western North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
  Park official Eileen Andes said in a statement that 65-year-old Michael Turk encountered the large animal after taking photos of a sunset. The man tried to walk around the bison but didn’t provide a wide enough berth.
  Andes says the bison apparently threw Turk into a bush, knocking him unconscious. He also suffered a leg l
  
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• Travel Tuesday: The hidden gems of Anchorage

  11-07-2017 22:43
  
   
  Looking for some unique places in Anchorage to show off to visiting friends and relatives? Anita Nelson with Visit Anchorage says some Alaskans may not be aware of of four local highlights.
  Nelson’s first suggestion is the William Jack Hernandez Sport Fish Hatchery, on Reeve Boulevard by Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. She says in July, people can get a glimpse of Chinook salmon. Nelson added that it is the largest indoor sport fish hatchery in North America with more than 100 fis
  
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• Enstar Natural Gas asks for permission to boost residential rates

  11-07-2017 22:37 via ktoo.org
  
  ENSTAR Natural Gas Company provides natural gas to more than 142,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in and around the Anchorage and Cook Inlet area. (Photo courtesy ENSTAR).
  For three weeks in June, about two dozen attorneys and witnesses crowded into a hearing room at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska’s offices in downtown Anchorage to discuss the minute details of Enstar Natural Gas Company’s request for a rate increase. Southcentral Alaska’s only ga
  
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• Professional basketball player Carlos Boozer to pass on skills in Juneau camp

  11-07-2017 21:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  (Photo provided by the Carlos Boozer Camp)
  Professional basketball player, Carlos Boozer talks with KCAW’s Cameron Clark about his upcoming basketball camp in Juneau.
  It will be from July 31 to August 4, at  Juneau-Douglas High School, Boozer’s alma mater. All skill levels are welcome.https://kcaw-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170707_Boozer.mp3Along with coaches and staff, Boozer will be helping players, ages 5-18, hone their skills with various drills and
  
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• Bethel scientist returns home to study climate change

  11-07-2017 21:22 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Jasmine Gil, originally from Bethel, is studying the effects of wildfires on permafrost with the Polaris Project, 50 miles north of the Yukon-Kuskokwim hub. (Photo by Katie Basile/KYUK)
  What happens after fire scorches the tundra, and what follows when carbon that’s been locked away for millennia gets released?
  Currently, a group of scientists is camping 50 miles north of Bethel are attempting to answer these questions.
  For one scientist the research is personal because it means coming hom
  
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• Anchorage ordinance would ban sale of 2 invasive plants

  11-07-2017 21:03
  
  Bird Cherry trees often draw people in the moment the spring bloom hits, but Anchorage plant experts say they’re getting problematic.
  “They rapidly take over and they crowd out everything else,” Tim Stallard, who serves as an invasive plant program coordinator with the Anchorage Park Foundation, said. “They’ve formed what’s called a mono-culture, kind of just a single species growing there.”
  Stallard said the Bird Cherry trees, commonly known as May Day
  
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• Emails show Trump Jr. knew Russia was working to support Trump campaign

  11-07-2017 20:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET
  Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday tweeted an email exchange that seemed to show the president’s son entertained an offer of Russian government help for his father to be elected president in 2016.
  “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” said the text that Trump Jr. posted on Twitter.
  In the messages, an intermediary for Russian business allies of the Trumps offer what
  
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• Murkowski speaks with constituents about health care during Senate recess

  11-07-2017 20:43 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski listens to panelists at a field hearing of the U.S. Senate and Natural Resources Committee in Cordova, Alaska on June 10, 2017. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Wrangell got some national attention on the Fourth of July, but it wasn’t for its parade..
  It was because of a visit from U.S. Senate Lisa Murkowski.
  She was one of just four of the Senate’s 52 Republicans to make a public appearance during the national holiday.
  Longtime Alaska journal
  
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• Vacant bishop position to be filled for Diocese of Juneau

  11-07-2017 19:49 via ktoo.org
  
  A pastor who previously served the Archdiocese of Anchorage has been named to the vacant Catholic Diocese of Juneau bishop position.
  The Rev. Andrew E. Bellisario, 60, will be ordained and installed as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Juneau on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
  The bishop seat has been vacant since Edward J. Burns, who held the position since 2009, was appointed bishop of Dallas in February.
  The Diocese of Juneau is the smallest in the United States, but covers all of
  
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• 4 suspects sought after vehicle-to-vehicle gunfire in Fairview

  11-07-2017 19:06
  
  Anchorage police are asking for the public’s help to find four men who fired on an occupied vehicle Monday evening from a stolen SUV in Fairview.
  The suspects’ vehicle, a stolen dark blue Dodge Durango with license plate DAZ499, drove off after the shots were fired near the 1200 block of 9th Avenue, police said in a message early Tuesday.
  No injuries were reported.
  Police dispatchers said they first heard about the incident at about 10:15 p.m. Monday, with no suspects in custody Tues
  
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• Ballistic missile successfully intercepted in Kodiak defense test

  11-07-2017 19:03
  
  A Kodiak-based defense system successfully intercepted an intermediate-range ballistic missile during a test Monday night, a week after North Korea successfully test-launched a longer-range missile.
  The federal Missile Defense Agency announced its successful test of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system Tuesday morning. THAAD is designed to destroy missiles in their terminal, or final, phase of flight using interceptors that relay on kinetic impact rather than a warhead for their destr
  
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• Ballistic missile launched at Kodiak successfully intercepted in defense test

  11-07-2017 19:03
  
  A Kodiak-based defense system successfully intercepted an intermediate-range ballistic missile during a test Monday night, a week after North Korea successfully test-launched a longer-range missile.
  The federal Missile Defense Agency announced its successful test of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system Tuesday morning. THAAD is designed to destroy missiles in their terminal, or final, phase of flight using interceptors that relay on kinetic impact rather than a warhead for their destru
  
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• Juneau Afternoon 7-11-17

  11-07-2017 18:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll get an update on Library activities;
  We’ll get the scoop on the upcoming Lemon Creek Clean-Up event;
  Hiram Henry will be here to highlight running in Juneau;
  And we’ll learn about the Rotaract Fundraiser, Christmas in July.
   
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6, it’s Alaska News Nightly, Telling Tales at 7, New Letters On the Air at 7:30, followed at 8 by Selected Shorts.
  At 9, Dem
  
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• SUV sails over embankment, burns in Wasilla chase

  11-07-2017 17:16
  
  A Wasilla man was arrested overnight Monday, after Alaska State Troopers said he led them on a vehicle chase through a residential area that ended in a fiery crash.
  Troopers said that they tried to stop a gold Jeep Cherokee, driven by 34-year-old Joseph Marquis, at about 9:45 p.m. Monday in Wasilla’s Cottonwood Loop subdivision. According to an online dispatch, the stop was prompted by troopers “observing the license plates were registered to a different vehicle.”
  “The ve
  
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• 16 dead after military plane crashes in Mississippi

  11-07-2017 16:46
  
  Marine Corps officials say the plane that crashed in Mississippi’s Delta region belonged to a reserve unit.
  Though the KC-130 refueling tanker took off from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, Capt. John Roberts said Tuesday that the plane was under the command of the 4th Marine Air Wing, which is part of the Marine Forces Reserve, headquartered in New Orleans.
  Lt. Col. Tanya Murnock says the names of the 16 people killed in the crash are being withheld while loved one
  
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• Donor heart is gift of a lifetime

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  Becky Turney thought every detail of her Palmer wedding had been planned. That’s why what happened just minutes into the service on Friday took her totally by surprise. Becky’s husband-to-be, Kelly Turney, let go of her hand to make an announcement to the crowd.
  “As you know, we have a seat saved for our son Triston who couldn’t make it, but he’s here for us in spirit,” said Kelly. “But, what a lot of you may not know is that Triston was an organ donor.
  
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• From Anchorage, Gov. Walker urges lawmakers back to Juneau

  11-07-2017 04:05
  
  Gov. Bill Walker is urging Alaska legislators to return to work in Juneau and pass a long-term budget plan this year. Walker delivered the message at a press conference Monday afternoon in Anchorage.
  Lawmakers originally aimed to strike a deal on oil tax credits by Monday, but, their timeframe has been pushed back to later this week as the House and Senate struggle to reach an agreement on the legislation, House Bill 111. The measure is the only item on the agenda, as lawmakers creep toward the
  
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• Both boaters missing on June trip out of Wales found dead

  11-07-2017 03:49
  
  The second of two missing occupants from a rowboat reported missing from the Alaska Peninsula village of Wales in the Bering Sea have been found dead.
  The body of 14-year-old Damian Soolook was found Friday on the beach about 13 miles north of Wales, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said Monday in an email.
  Soolook and 21-year-old Timothy Miligrock, both Wales residents, had left the village on June 11. Residents told KTVA that the two were subsequently heard from shore shouting fo
  
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• No injuries in gunfire during Sunday bar break, police say

  11-07-2017 03:48
  
  Anchorage police responded after a gun was discharged at the ground early Sunday as Downtown bars closed, but said nobody was hurt during the incident.
  A group of officers were gathered near 4th Avenue and D Street just before 3 a.m., police spokeswoman Renee Oistad said in an email when they heard multiple rounds being fired in the parking lot of the Sunshine Mall.
  “The officers ran to that location and witnessed several pedestrians and vehicles fleeing the area,” Oistad wrote.
  
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• ‘Items can be replaced; life can’t.’ Plane crash cleanup underway

  11-07-2017 03:44
  
  Courtesy: Nicole Hay
  People who live in the Turnagain neighborhood, which became the crash site of a Cessna 180 plane on floats Sunday, say they’re still in disbelief over how the incident played out.
  “Other than anywhere else in Alaska, I don’t think anyone else in the world understands what it means to have an airplane just kind of land in your neighborhood,” said neighbor Nick Williamson. He added, “‘Land’ is relative, but yeah.”
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• From Anchorage, Walker tells lawmakers to get back to Juneau

  11-07-2017 03:41 via ktoo.org
  
  Reporters hear from Gov. Bill Walker on a variety of issues during a Monday press conference in Anchorage. (Photo by Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media)
  Lawmakers have been meeting in Juneau for nearly half a year, but Gov. Bill Walker told reporters on Monday in Anchorage that he doesn’t think they’re done yet.
  He wants lawmakers to fix the state’s beleaguered budget this year rather than waiting until next session to find new sources of revenue.They barely avoided a state g
  
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• DOT plans more signage for Seward Highway spigot area

  11-07-2017 03:36
  
  The spigot at mile marker 109 of the Seward Highway is a popular spot for people to fill up jugs with fresh mountain runoff.
  The Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT) installed a pullout years ago to make sure people can get safely off the roadway.
  Andrew Cornelius always makes a stop before heading home to Kenai. On a sunny Monday morning, he collected about 40 gallons, which he said will last his family about three weeks.
  Cornelius said he doesn’t mind crossing the road on foot but
  
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• Official: FBI arrests Hawaii-based soldier on terror charges

  11-07-2017 02:50
  
  HONOLULU (AP) – A U.S. official says that an active duty Army soldier has been arrested by the FBI in Hawaii on terrorism charges.
  The official says that the solder was arrested because of connections he had with the Islamic State group.
  He says the soldier was with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu.
  No other details were available.
  The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
  FBI spokesman Arnold Laanui said
  
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• Kodiak Coast Guard makes 8-year-old’s wish come true

  11-07-2017 02:44
  
  Andrew receiving Air Medal for work on rescue mission. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Meredith Manning)
  Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak granted an 8-year-old boy’s wish over the weekend.
  Make-A-Wish of Alaska and Washington teamed up with the Coast Guard Station to designate Andrew Bishop of Woodland, Washington, as an honorary rescue swimmer aboard the MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter.
  After his successful completion of a modified rescue swimmer pool training and basic air crew
  
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• Anchorage Jail inmate stabbed in the eyes by his cellmate, charges say

  11-07-2017 02:38
  
  An Anchorage Jail inmate is facing attempted-murder charges after investigators said he stabbed his cellmate in the eyes with a pencil last week, before being restrained by correctional officers using a Taser and pepper spray.
  Justin Apple, 39, is also accused of first-degree assault in the July 3 incident in the west wing of the Anchorage Correctional Complex, according to court documents.
  Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge didn’t have any additional comment on the ca
  
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• Someone may want to buy the ferry Taku, but they need more time

  11-07-2017 02:33 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Alaska Marine Highway ferry Taku sails into Wrangell Narrows near Petersburg in 2014. It was tied up the following year and is for sale. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/Coastalaska News)
  Someone is interested in buying the retired ferry Taku.
  As a result, the Alaska Marine Highway System is giving interested parties an extra week and a half to submit bids.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/10TakuBidPkg.mp3The 54-year-old ship has been out of service for two years. It’s been pu
  
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• Alleged transit center assault suspect charged with murder

  11-07-2017 02:16 via ktoo.org
  
  David V. Evenson, 51, appears in Juneau District Court on July 10, 2017, on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and second-degree murder. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  A Juneau man arrested for the deadly assault of another man at the Downtown Transit Center remains held in custody.
  His bail has been set at $500,000 cash.
  David V. Evenson, 51, was arrested Friday on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and second-degree murder with extreme indifference to human
  
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• The Egegik fishery employs thousands, but very few live in it’s city

  11-07-2017 02:14 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Paul and Nattie Boskoffsky have lived in Egegik for many years. (Photo by Nick Ciolino/KDLG)
  The city of Egegik lies on the south bank near the mouth of the Egegik River, one of the most productive water sheds for sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay.
  Those who call Egegik home are becoming fewer, but there are still some who can tell of the area’s history, and others moving in to see what the future holds.https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kdlg/audio/2017/07/egegik_7.7_pkg.mp3The Egegik fishing district was
  
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• Kayaker overdue on trip along Chena, Tanana rivers

  11-07-2017 02:06
  
  Alaska State Troopers are asking for information on a Fairbanks man last seen kayaking the Chena River last week who has since been reported overdue.
  Troopers received word shortly before 10 a.m. Monday that 36-year-old Sean Murphy hadn’t returned from his trip. He departed Thursday from a Chena River access point at the end of Chena Small Tracts Road, but his ultimate destination and route weren’t known.
  “[Murphy] is believed to have continued down the Tanana River,” tro
  
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• SUV hits, kills 5-year-old bicyclist in Bethel collision

  11-07-2017 01:58
  
  A 5-year-old boy lost his life Saturday afternoon in Bethel, where police say he was riding his bicycle when he was struck by a sport-utility vehicle.
  The 4 p.m. collision that killed Preston Payne, on the 100 block of Atsaq Street, was responded to by Bethel police as well as Alaska State Troopers, according to a post on the police department’s Facebook page.
  Police said Richard Engebreth was at the wheel of the SUV driving along Atsaq when “two children entered the roadway on bicyc
  
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• The Fattest Guy in the Room and being overweight in America

  11-07-2017 01:57
  
  Mike “Big Mike” Sangiamo calls himself the fattest guy in the room and wrote a book by the same name. In it, he uses humor to outline the 10 reasons why he says being fat sucks and the three why it is not so bad.
  The reason Sangiamo said he wrote the publication in the first place was to spread the message that there’s nothing fat people can’t do, like visiting all 50 states, and people shouldn’t be embarrassed about being overweight. He added writing it was a
  
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• Story Time with Aunt Phil: President Warren G. Harding’s visit to Alaska

  11-07-2017 01:56
  
  This week in 1923, the first U.S. President ever to visit Alaska drove the final spike into an Alaska Railroad track to signify its completion.
  On a hot and sunny July 15 in North Nenana, President Warren G. Harding lifted a maul and struck a specially made golden spike into the rail at the northern end of the Mears Memorial Bridge. It was the last piece of track connecting the new Alaska Railroad between Seward and Fairbanks.
  But there are a couple of mysteries surrounding President Harding an
  
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• Haines residents may vote on new police service area following trooper departure

  11-07-2017 01:39 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Haines Police service area does not include residents who live along the Haines Highway. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  Haines has been without a blue-shirt Alaska State Trooper for more than six months.
  The trooper used to provide protection for areas of the borough outside the townsite, including the Haines Highway.
  Now, the Assembly has a solution in sight to cover the gap left behind by the trooper, but voters will have the final say.
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• Video: Fairbanks pipeline boom

  11-07-2017 01:09 via ktoo.org
  
  The building of the trans-Alaska pipeline drew thousands of young workers from around the country to Alaska. Larry “Hack” Hackenmiller found himself working in Fairbanks bar scene just as the boom was taking off.
  
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• White House defends Trump son’s meeting with Russian attorney during campaign

  11-07-2017 00:55 via ktoo.org
  
  The White House is defending Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting last year with a Kremlin-connected attorney who purported to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton that could have been helpful to President Donald Trump’s campaign.
  “Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Monday.
  “The only thing I see inappropriate about the meeting was the people that leaked the information on the meeting after
  
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