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• Federal officials tag drug package, make arrests at Fourth Street house

  12-08-2017 23:58 via ktoo.org
  This house is the address the Juneau Empire reported police searched Wednesday after drugs were delivered in a sting operation. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two people in Juneau who handled a drug package after it was spotted in the mailing process and then tagged by federal officials have been arrested.
  The Juneau Empire reports 44-year-old Christian John Peters and 34-year-old Tiffany Jo Spaulding were arraigned on Thursday in U.S. District Court after a mu
  
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• 3 dead after violence linked to white nationalist protest in Virginia

  12-08-2017 23:23 via ktoo.org
  Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
  Update | 5:00 p.m. Saturday
  Three people died and about 35 were
  
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• 1 killed by car plowing into crowd after white nationalist protest in Virginia

  12-08-2017 23:23 via ktoo.org
  Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
  Almost 20 people were injured and one person has died after a c
  
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• GCI lawsuit against ADN seeks back rent, utilities — and eviction

  12-08-2017 04:43 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska Dispatch News is facing multiple lawsuits that threaten its operations. (Photo illustration by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  The state’s largest newspaper is in serious financial trouble.
  According to a lawsuit filed Friday, the Alaska Dispatch News is being brought to court by GCI for $2.9 million, much of it over unpaid bills. And it’s asking the court to evict the newspaper from the warehouse space that houses the printing press, at a time when ADN has nowh
  
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• BlueCrest is latest company to stop work, citing state’s defunct cash-for-credits scheme

  12-08-2017 03:43 via ktoo.org
  BlueCrest Energy Inc.’s operation in southern Cook Inlet. The company announced that it will be putting a temporary hold on drilling new wells while it seeks financing. It says the state owes the company more than $75 million in unpaid tax credits. (Photo Courtesy Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority)
  Last week, BlueCrest Energy Inc. announced that it is going to pause its drilling operation in Cook Inlet. The company blamed Alaska’s controversial cashable tax credit pr
  
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• Southeast fleets adjust to a season without kings

  12-08-2017 02:15 via ktoo.org
  
  
  King salmon at a market in Seattle. (Creative Commons photo by Jill /Blue Moonbeam Studio)
  The realities of the Southeast king salmon closure will hit home as of Thursday, August 10, when no one — whether fishing commercially or recreationally — will be permitted to retain one of Alaska’s most sought-after species.
  Industry groups from both the commercial and sport sectors have been sorting through the limited information available from the state about the closure, and soothing
  
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• Recall election spotlights political division in Haines

  12-08-2017 01:46 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A sign supporting the Haines recall campaign. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  Haines voters will decide Tuesday whether to recall half their borough Assembly.
  Three Assembly members are accused of misconduct in office.
  But the discontent driving the recall is about much more than the official charges. And the recall leaders have repeatedly refused to defend their views on the record.
  http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/11RecallwINTRO.mp3“I’m an obituary writer, and I feel a
  
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• Two injured after single-vehicle crash near Lena Beach

  12-08-2017 01:23 via ktoo.org
  At least two people were injured in a single-vehicle crash Wednesday evening, after the car drove off the road near Lena Beach.
  According to Juneau Police Department spokesman Lt. David Campbell, the vehicle left the road near the 16800 block of Glacier Highway. Campbell said in an email that the driver and one passenger left the scene of the crash before an officer arrived. He did not know if they’d been located. 
  Two other passengers were transport
  
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• Hilcorp reports another spill in Cook Inlet

  12-08-2017 01:19 via ktoo.org
  Hilcorp has reported another spill this week.
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed the spill happened Monday on the Steelhead platform the company operates in the Trading Bay oil field in Cook Inlet.
  DEC spokesperson Candice Bressler said 200 gallons of an oil-based drilling mud was released from the platform, of which, 2 gallons ended up in Cook Inlet.
  The cause of the spill is still under investigation, and Bressler says DEC is working the company to review safety prot
  
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