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• Newscast — Monday, August 14, 2017

  14-08-2017 23:02 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/newscast2.mp3In this newscast:
  Two candidates have filed to run for the Juneau School Board.
  A longtime Juneau resident and painter passed away in Juneau Pioneer Home.
  
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• Former Thane attraction to be razed for tribal culture park

  14-08-2017 22:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  An architect’s rendering depicts the longhouse and other facilities to be built over the former Thane Ore House restaurant as a culture park. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska hopes to break ground on the $7 million project this year. (Courtesy CCTHITA)
  A former attraction in Thane is slated to be burned to the ground. That’s because the former Thane Ore House property will be the site of a park for Tlingit and Haida culture. A controlled burn will
  
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• Trump Calls Out KKK, White Supremacists After Charlottesville: ‘Racism Is Evil’

  14-08-2017 20:43 via ktoo.org
  Almost 48 hours after racist violence engulfed Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump called out white nationalist groups by name. Trump’s remarks on Monday following criticism that his initial statement about the clash of protesters did not condemn racist groups specifically.
  “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as
  
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• Despite king salmon ban, Golden North derby officials report good numbers

  14-08-2017 09:28 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Johns family watches as Kami Bartness, right, weighs one of their fish on a float in Auke Bay on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/13Derby.mp3No king salmon allowed!
  That Department of Fish and Game announcement doesn’t seem to be hurting boat loads in this year’s Golden North Salmon Derby. Derby officials said contestants are actually catching more fish than last year.
  If you can’t have the biggest king, you might as w
  
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• Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer ‘stood up’ against what she felt was wrong

  14-08-2017 06:17 via ktoo.org
  Heather Heyer, 32, died on Saturday after a car plowed into a crowd of anti-racist protesters following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. (Courtesy of Justin Marks)
  Updated at 6 p.m. ET
  One day after a car plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the victim of that attack has been identified as Heather Heyer. The Charlottesville resident was 32 years old.
  Two state troopers, Pilot Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Ba
  
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• Ohio man charged with murder in fatal car attack on anti-white nationalist march

  14-08-2017 06:11 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 7:52 p.m. ET
  A man who appeared to be protesting Saturday with a group of self-proclaimed fascists is accused of killing a woman and injuring multiple others by driving his car into a crowd of marchers in Charlottesville, Va.
  James Alex Fields Jr., 20, sped his silver Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people who had been protesting the assembly of white nationalists, white supremacists, fascists and others, according to police. Authorities say Charlottesville resident Heather Heyer, 32
  
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• Humanities endowment to partner with Native nonprofit to promote language immersion education

  14-08-2017 04:08 via ktoo.org
  The Barnes Committee Room erupts in applause after an Alaska House committee advanced legislation that would make 20 Alaska Native languages official state languages on on Feb. 18, 2014. (Photo by Kyle Schmitz/360 North)
  A federal humanities advocate and a Native nonprofit are teaming up to promote Native language education programs. They’ll each contribute about $2 million to fund education programs within tribal communities aimed at revitalizing Native American languages.
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• Do you have $130,000 for an air ambulance ride?

  14-08-2017 04:04 via ktoo.org
  
  
  An Airlift Northwest Learjet at the company’s hangar in Juneau on Friday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/07Medevac.mp3On Feb. 5, Lance McVay was soaring at 39,000 feet on a million dollar private jet with multiple bone fractures.
  He spent the night before pinned in his car after he crashed into the woods of Douglas Island.
  “I don’t remember doing anything past crossing the bridge. They think it’s related to sleep apnea and n
  
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