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• Juneau police seek person of interest in early morning assault

  19-09-2017 23:45 via ktoo.org
  The Juneau Police Department is looking for a 21-year-old Juneau man in connection with an assault and property damage in Lemon Creek early this morning.
  According to a news release, Wilson “Will” Woodrow Curtis-Collins is a person of interest after a reported disturbance about 12:40 a.m. today near the 1800 block of Northwood Drive.
  Someone called to report their 24-year-old male roommate was being assaulted. The suspect, who was later identified as Curtis-Collins, allegedly punched
  
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• Juneau police cancel help request seeking person of interest

  19-09-2017 23:45 via ktoo.org
  Updated | 11:27 a.m. Wednesday
  Juneau Police Department updated a news release at 9:53 a.m. today canceling a request for help locating Wilson Curtis-Collins.
  According to the news release, Curtis-Collins came to the police department for an interview.
  He was released. The investigation is ongoing.
  — Tripp J Crouse
  Original story | 1:45 p.m. Tuesday
  Juneau police seek person of interest in early morning assault
  The Juneau Police Department is looking for a 21-year-old Juneau man in connect
  
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• Powerful earthquake roils central Mexico

  19-09-2017 23:08 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 5 p.m. ET
  Thirty-two years to the day after an earthquake killed thousands of people in Mexico, a powerful quake rattled the country’s central region Tuesday. Buildings shivered in Mexico City, shattering facades and sending clouds of dust skyward.
  Residents who just hours before had taken part in large simulated earthquake drills to mark the anniversary emptied into the streets when the real quake struck.
  In its preliminary assessment, the U.S. Geological Survey said the magnit
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017

  19-09-2017 23:08 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20170919newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  A local mine executive asks the Juneau Assembly to back off a resolution on transboundary mining and it does,
  a Portland businessman bids $300,000 for the ferry Taku to turn it into a hotel, and
  neighbors of the resident who’s chickens were attacked by a bear that was put down call for tougher chicken keeping rules.
  
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• Dylann Roof asks to fire legal team of ‘biological enemies’

  19-09-2017 20:35 via ktoo.org
  Dylann Roof, on federal death row for gunning down nine people two years ago at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., wants his legal team dismissed because of the lawyers’ ethnicity as he seeks to have his conviction and death sentence overturned.
  “My two currently appointed attorneys, Alexandra Yates and Sapna Mirchandani, are Jewish and Indian respectively,” Roof wrote in a letter filed Monday with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “It is therefore quit
  
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• Tee Harbor neighbors decry brown bear killing

  19-09-2017 20:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Neighbors criticized the  recent killing of a brown bear attacking chickens and urged the Juneau Assembly to pen stronger rules requiring secured chicken coops.
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/170919BEAR.mp3An Alaska Wildlife Trooper fatally shot the 420-pound bear a week ago after the unidentified property owner called police to report the bear killing chickens at a home near Tee Harbor.
  Neighbors claimed the chicken coop wasn’t an enclosure, but a
  
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• Trump to U.N.: North Korea’s ‘Rocket Man’ Kim Jong Un on a suicide mission

  19-09-2017 20:07 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 11:34 a.m. ET
  President Donald Trump delivered a stern warning to North Korea and its outlaw nuclear program as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly today.
  “The United States has great strength and patience,” Trump said. “But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
  Trump took aim at North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, with the same nickname he’d used on Twitter.
  “Ro
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-19-17

  19-09-2017 19:26 via ktoo.org
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon:
   
  We’ll get an update on the Adult dance classes at the Juneau Dance Theatre;
   
  We’ll talk with Katrina Woolford abut a new book by author, Lawrence Millman;
   
  We’ll talk about activities at the Marie Drake Planetarium;
   
  And Suzanne Ainsworth will give us an update on Community School classes.
  
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• After mining exec weighs in, Juneau Assembly holds off on boundary mine resolution

  19-09-2017 10:02 via ktoo.org
  NASA satellite imagery shows Southeast Alaska in true color on Nov. 24, 2001. (Public domain image by Jacques Descloitres/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC)
  A local mine executive urged the Juneau Assembly to reconsider a resolution urging federal action on transboundary mining, and the Assembly did on Monday night.
  The resolution would have urged the federal government to invoke a treaty to enforce protections for Alaska resources from upstream mines in British Columbia. Recently, the b
  
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• PFD announcement fanfare is gone, as dividends are cut in half

  19-09-2017 04:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Alaskans file their Permanent Fund dividend applications in downtown Anchorage in March 2016. (Photo by Rachel Waldholz/Alaska Public Media)https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/18PFDnpr1.mp3If the state budget didn’t lower Alaska Permanent Fund dividends this year, they would have been among the highest in state history at more than $2,300. Instead, they will be $1,100, deposited or mailed on Oct. 5.
  The day that Permanent Fund dividends were announced used to be a celebration.
  
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• Watchdog group scrutinizes rough-weather training for new tanker escorts in Prince William Sound

  19-09-2017 02:57 via ktoo.org
  Crowley Marine Services will be turning over its contract to provide oil tanker escorts and spill response and prevention in Prince William Sound next year to Louisiana-based Edison Chouest. (Photo by Eric Keto/APRN)
  Next year, a whole new fleet of tugboats and barges will arrive in Prince William Sound with a big responsibility: to prevent another oil spill like the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
  But vessels aren’t the only new element arriving next year. At a meeting held last week, the official
  
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• Wildfires pop up near Chisana and Tanana

  19-09-2017 02:49 via ktoo.org
  Red Hill Fire continues to burn Saturday evening. The fire, estimated at 1 acre, is approximately 100 miles northeast of Glennallen and 1.8 miles northeast of Chisana. (Photo courtesy Luke Wassick/National Park Service)
  Recent warm, dry weather in the Interior has resulted in two late season wildfires.
  Alaska Division of Forestry reports sending fire fighters last night to a 1-acre blaze, located about a hundred miles northeast of Glennallen, near Chisana.
  The department said the fire, burning i
  
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• Cruise ship homicide defendant waives right to a speedy trial

  19-09-2017 00:54 via ktoo.org
  The defendant in a federal case of a Utah man charged with killing his wife aboard a cruise ship has waived his right to speedy trial in court Monday. This pushes a potential trial in U.S. District Court back months.
  The United States District Court is located on the ninth floor of the federal building in Juneau. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  Kenneth Ray Manzanares is charged with first-degree murder of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, during a Southeast Alaska cruise. He pleaded not guilty in
  
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