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• Newscast — Monday, July 31

  31-07-2017 23:42 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/newscast2.mp3In this newscast:
  Senator Lisa Murkowski discussed the reasons behind her health care vote.
  Governor Bill Walker said he plans to introduce a tax bill.
  Alaska Representative Shelley Hughes has breast cancer.
   
  
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• Fish and Game kills grizzly that foraged in unlocked dumpsters around deadhorse

  31-07-2017 22:47 via ktoo.org
  A mother grizzly was killed by the state after getting into human food in Deadhorse.
  Young grizzlies like this are attracted to the ready food source presented by unlocked dumpsters at food-service facilities around the oilfield- and pipeline-service community of Deadhorse. The bear’s coat is tinted red by rust inside the large-diameter pipes that the bears sometimes crawl into. (Photo courtesy Alaska Deparmtent of Fish and Game)
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reports shooting the
  
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• Test missile launches from Kodiak

  31-07-2017 21:45 via ktoo.org
  A terminal high altitude area defense, or THAAD, interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 on July 30, 2017. (Photo by Leah Garton/Missile Defense Agency)
  The Alaska Aerospace Corporation just completed its second missile test of the summer as part of its partnership with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
  People in the area at the time report having seen the launch overnight between Saturday and Sunday.
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• Murkowski in Sitka hours after critical health care vote

  31-07-2017 21:32 via ktoo.org
  Less than 24 hours after casting a critical vote on health care, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was back in her home state of Alaska.
  She had choice words about voting her conscience, despite pressure from the GOP and President Donald Trump himself.
  She had planned a fishing trip in Sitka a month ago, but before chasing salmon, she met with city staff, tribal officials and leaders from the local business and non-profit sector of Sitka.
  Murkowski also toured SEARHC’s Mount Edgecumbe Hospital, whe
  
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• No life sentences without parole for juveniles in Alaska

  31-07-2017 21:14 via ktoo.org
  JUNEAU — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating juveniles cannot automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole has not been an issue in Alaska.
  Kaci Schroeder is an assistant attorney general with the Alaska Department of Law, and says the state does not have life without parole for juveniles.
  She says that in talking with senior prosecutors and in her research, she could not find that there was ever such a sentence. She says Alaska appears to have consistently had definite term
  
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• Trump says no ‘chaos’ as he swears in his new chief of staff

  31-07-2017 20:58 via ktoo.org
  President Donald Trump swore in his new chief of staff Monday morning, former Homeland Security Secretary and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, telling reporters he has no doubt Kelly will do a “spectacular job” in his new role.
  Kelly takes over from Reince Priebus, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, who left the position after a little over six months, unable to bring order to a chaotic and at times fractious West Wing.
  The changeover follows one of Trump’s wo
  
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• Competition for airspace between drones and eagles intensifies in Unalaska

  31-07-2017 20:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A bald eagle takes off near Unalaska Bay. (Photo by Berett Wilber/KUCB)
  Before sending a $6,000 drone to record aerial footage in Unalaska, Emmett Fitch warned the pilot he might want to reconsider one thing.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170728-07.mp3“It was black with a white body,” Fitch recalls. “I said, ‘That looks a lot like an eagle. We should maybe paint it a different color.’”
  Fitch, who runs local Wi-Fi provider Optimera, was helping an advertising
  
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• With cut after cut, state food safety inspections stretch years apart

  31-07-2017 15:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The food safety permit for the Timberline Bar and Grill in Juneau hangs on its wall on July 29, 2017. With fewer inspectors conducting fewer inspections, some restaurants go years between inspections. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/07/31foodsafetynpr1.mp3Salmon patties sizzle on a grill at The Salmon Spot, a new addition to Juneau’s many downtown seasonal food stands. Its license hangs just above a box of plastic gloves.
  With food inspectors availab
  
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• Scientists still seek a reliable DUI test for marijuana

  31-07-2017 07:07 via ktoo.org
  This spring, 16 state patrol officers from Colorado and Wyoming took a couple days off their usual work schedule to do something special. They assembled in a hotel conference room in Denver. As instructed, they wore street clothes for their first assignment: going shopping at nearby marijuana dispensaries.
  “It’s a brave new world,” said instructor Chris Halsor, referring to the years since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana.
  There are now more marijuana dispensaries in C
  
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• Whale butchered, meat distributed to villages surrounding Kuskokwim River

  31-07-2017 07:05 via ktoo.org
  Meat and blubber from the whale killed Thursday evening in the Kuskokwim River is currently being distributed to surrounding villages. Six boats dragged the 37-foot long whale to shallow water between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday. A yellow front-end loader then carried the carcass to the Napaskiak shore.
  As of 7:45 p.m. Saturday, about 40 people, including elders, adults, and children, surrounded the whale while several people worked to butcher the meat.
  
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• Summer tips: Save your chickens, stop feeding bears

  31-07-2017 06:36 via ktoo.org
  A chicken eats from a hanging feeder inside Sarah Dolan’s chicken run in the Mendenhall Valley on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  If a bear cornered Sarah Dolan’s chickens inside her chicken run, they would be sitting ducks.
  Six birds are strolling aimlessly around the run surrounded by a mesh fencing called hardware cloth. It looks like chicken wire, but Dolan says it’s more solid.
  “And I have that screwed into the four-by-fours and then in the ground with cem
  
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• Juneau police chief leaves Alaska for Idaho

  31-07-2017 06:34 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Police Chief Bryce Johnson in his office before his last day on July 28, 2017. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Juneau’s outgoing police chief says several major initiatives that got underway during his tenure will continue after his departure.
  Bryce Johnson’s last day as head of the Juneau Police Department was Friday. Ed Mercer, currently deputy chief, will be sworn in as the new chief on Monday.
  “I think he’s going to do really well,” Johnson said. “I&rsq
  
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