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• New Perseverance satire wrestles with style, substance and identity

  12-09-2017 23:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A satirical play with a megalomaniac title character who talks about himself in the third person opens this Friday at Perseverance Theatre.
  While “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” takes place in a professional wrestling ring, the men in tiny tight outfits explore ethnic politics, celebrity and American culture.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/12DEITY.mp3A professional wrestling ring may not be where one expects to find fine art that deals with issues like these.
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017

  12-09-2017 22:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20170912newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The trial date is set for a Juneau murder defendant representing himself in court,
  Juneau’s Housing First grand opening gets delayed another week at least,
  a state wildlife trooper kills a brown bear raiding a chicken coop near Tee Harbor, and
  a federal bankruptcy judge OKs the sale of the Alaska Dispatch News.
  
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• Tesla remotely expanded car batteries near Irma’s path, and questions linger

  12-09-2017 22:34 via ktoo.org
  Tesla owners who were in Hurricane Irma’s path in the Southeast recently got an unexpected boost to help them, after the carmaker remotely upgraded vehicle batteries to their highest capacity.
  The boost gave customers’ cars an extra 30 to 40 miles, but it’s also temporary: The batteries will lose their extra juice this weekend.
  The move came at the request of a customer who was worried about traffic and the range between charging stations during a massive evacuation that saw mi
  
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• Christopher Strawn will defend himself in next month’s retrial

  12-09-2017 22:16 via ktoo.org
  The retrial for a man accused of murdering another man in the Mendenhall Valley is still on schedule for next month.
  Defendant Christopher Strawn listens to his defense attorney Eve Soutiere during jury selection in his homicide trial in Juneau in February 2017. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Christopher Strawn will stand trial October 2 for the death of Brandon Cook at the Kodzoff Acres Trailer Park nearly two years ago. The previous jury trial ended in a mistrial in February.
  Strawn fired his pre
  
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• Can an Anchorage start-up lure renewable energy investors to rural Alaska?

  12-09-2017 22:12 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Patrick Boonstra of Intelligent Energy Systems, and Kwigillingok wind tech Benny Daniel check a turbine after a blizzard the night before. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/APRN)
  In recent years, communities across rural Alaska have pushed to add renewable energy and reduce the use of expensive diesel to power their communities.
  The majority of those projects have been funded with state and federal grants. But as the state budget has contracted, those grants have dried up.
  Now, a start-up company in Anc
  
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• Two boaters and three dogs rescued in Prince William Sound

  12-09-2017 22:09 via ktoo.org
  Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur rescue a dog from a 34-foot vessel that was taking on water near Montague Island. (Photo courtesy Coast Guard)
  Coast Guard helicopter and cutter crews rescued two people and three dogs Friday near Montague Island in Prince William Sound.
  The Coast Guard dispatched a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and the Cutter Chandeleur after a mayday call came in over VHF radio.
  Two boaters reported that their 34-foot vessel was taking on water before kayaking to M
  
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• Brown bear raiding chicken coop killed by Juneau-based wildlife trooper

  12-09-2017 21:59 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game recommends homeowners secure livestock pens so they don’t attract bears.
  An Alaska Wildlife Trooper shot and killed a brown bear Monday night near Tee Harbor. Authorities say it broke into a chicken coop.
  “This particular case, it sounds like a younger brown bear that was getting into a chicken coop that was not protected by an electric fence,” Alaska Fish and Game wildlife biologist Stephanie Sell said Tuesday.
  Troopers received a report
  
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• Troopers say man attempted to smuggle heroin to Bethel

  12-09-2017 21:39 via ktoo.org
  Alaska State Troopers say a man arrested in Anchorage with heroin that was headed for Bethel. Troopers report that the man was attempting to smuggle the drugs by hiding them inside his body.
  According to court documents, troopers approached William “Billy” Aloysius, 33, at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on August 31 as he was waiting for his flight home to Bethel.
  Troopers already were investigating Aloysius after receiving tips that he could be distributin
  
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• As demand for opioid remedy skyrockets, police train for overdose treatment with Naloxone

  12-09-2017 21:03 via ktoo.org
  Alaska State Troopers Lt. Steve Adams shows how to use Narcan at a training Aug. 18 in Anchorage. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  In the ongoing effort to curb overdose deaths from opioids like heroin, police across Alaska are getting trained to use a new tool.
  Naloxone — a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose — has long been used by emergency medics, but now it’s being deployed to police departments and non-profits at the front lin
  
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• Most University of Alaska campuses see lower enrollment

  12-09-2017 19:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Fall enrollment is down at most University of Alaska campuses. Early numbers show the university headcount off 4.5 percent, or over 1,000 students, from last fall.
  The highest declines are at Southeast and Fairbanks campuses.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170911-05.mp3UAF’s Institutional Research Director Ian Olson said enrollment is dropping at the Fairbanks campus as student retention and graduation rates rise.
  ”We’re graduating fairly large classes and we’r
  
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• Judge approves sale of Alaska Dispatch News to Binkley family

  12-09-2017 19:27 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Ryan Binkley speaks with reporters following the court hearing on the sale of the Alaska Dispatch News (Photo By Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  A bankruptcy court judge approved Monday the sale of Alaska Dispatch News, the state’s largest newspaper from Alice Rogoff to the Binkley family of Fairbanks.
  The judge still needs to sign the official paperwork on the deal, which is set to close Friday.
  After no other bidders stepped forward Monday, the Binkleys will get the newspaper for $1 mi
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-12-17

  12-09-2017 18:38 via ktoo.org
  Today on A Juneau Afternoon:
   
  We’ll talk with author Alexander Dolitsky about his new book, Old Russia in Modern America;
   
  Carolyn Brown will be here with a preview of Thursday’s League of Women Voters Municipal Candidate Forum;
   
  Malibu’s First Poet Laureate Ricardo Means Ybarra will be here with a sample of his Tuesday night reading from his book, Beyond the Reef, at the Valley Library at 6:30 p.m.
   
  Jen LaRoe, Arts Education director for the Juneau Arts
  
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• Juneau’s Housing First ribbon cutting postponed

  12-09-2017 02:09 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Housing First Project under construction on November 17, 2016. (Photo by David Purdy/KTOO)
  Juneau’s Housing First grand opening – slated for this week – has been delayed again.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/170911HOUSING.mp3The housing complex designed for Juneau’s most vulnerable residents was originally scheduled to open in May.
  Project officials didn’t immediately offer an explanation for the delay, though it was confirmed that this week&rsqu
  
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• Fish and Game relocates two nuisance bears from Petersburg

  12-09-2017 01:55 via ktoo.org
  A black bear was captured near early this month and moved to Farragut Bay on the mainland north of Petersburg. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has trapped and moved two black bears that have been looking for an easy lunch and getting into garbage cans in Petersburg this summer.
  Petersburg Police Department has been fielding calls about nuisance bears around town.
  The borough is asking residents to make sure household trash is secure u
  
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• Supreme Court backs broad enforcement of travel ban — for now

  12-09-2017 00:46 via ktoo.org
  The U.S. Supreme Court will temporarily allow the Trump administration to block many refugees from six mostly Muslim countries without direct familial ties in the United States from entering this country.
  In a brief order issued Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy delayed implementation of a ruling issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week that would have allowed entry to refugees with formal ties to resettlement agencies here.
  Kennedy put that ruling on hold until lawyers opposing the tr
  
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