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• Rep. Young apologizes for his ‘offending words’ on House floor

  10-09-2017 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Alaska’s U.S. Rep. Don Young reverted to form Thursday night.
  He spoke somewhat harshly of another lawmaker on the floor of the U.S. House. Judged against his past statements, it was nothing spectacular.
  But then Young did something unusual: He made nice.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170908-05.mp3The incident happened during a late-night session on a big spending bill. Young was pressing for an amendment to ditch an Obama administration rule that bans certain methods of killing pr
  
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• Uncle names girls killed in Butte fire, says trailer needed repairs

  10-09-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The uncle of five girls who died Thursday in a trailer fire in the Butte community near Palmer said Friday that they were all members of the same family.
  http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170908-04.mp3Armando Astorga identified the fire victims as Jaelynn Flores, 3, Sofia Flores, 6, Lillyanna Flores, 7, Nevaeh Flores, 8, and Alexis Quackenbush, 12.
  Astorga lives in Los Angeles and spoke by phone while in Seattle about to board a plane to Anchorage.
  “They were always together, they were alwa
  
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• Irma blasts through Florida Keys, turning its deadly winds toward mainland

  10-09-2017 19:13 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday
  After leaving a path of destruction through parts of the Caribbean, Hurricane Irma’s eye moved through the lower Florida Keys on Sunday morning. By midday, the National Hurricane Center reported the deadly Category 4 storm had begun to swing away from the Keys — and toward Florida’s mainland.
  Irma was expected to hit the state’s southwest coast or skirt it closely later Sunday, trundling its 130-mph winds toward northern Florida, where the
  
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