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• As permafrost thaws, village cemeteries sink into swamp

  02-10-2017 23:37 via ktoo.org
  
  
  As the permafrost thaws, Kongiganak’s cemetery is turning into swampland. Community members are now laying their loved ones to rest on raised platforms above ground. (Photo Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)
  On a crisp day in September, the village of Kongiganak, or Kong, filed into a little white church and laid Maggie Mary Otto to rest.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kyuk/audio/2017/10/170928_kong_graveyard_pkg_final.mp3The service was crowded. An elder and de facto marriage counselor, Otto was beloved.
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• Jury selection begins in homicide retrial

  02-10-2017 23:06 via ktoo.org
  The retrial for a man accused of murdering another man in the Mendenhall Valley two years ago is now underway.
  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 faces charges related to the 2015 death of Brandon Cook at the Kodzoff Acres Trailer Park.
  The previous jury trial ended in a mistrial last February.
  Prospective jurors in Juneau Superior Court on
  
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• Newscast – Monday, Oct. 2, 2017

  02-10-2017 23:02 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/10/20171002newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  A former Juneau resident who now lives in Las Vegas gives his take on the mass shooting,
  jury selection is underway in the Christopher Strawn murder retrial,
  Anchorage Rep. Chris Birch requests this month special session be held in Anchorage instead of Juneau, and
  new public art is installed on Juneau’s downtown waterfront.
  
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• Former Juneau resident praises Las Vegas’ emergency preparedness in wake of shooting

  02-10-2017 21:36 via ktoo.org
  The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Creative Commons photo by Rebell18190)
  A former Juneau resident is praising Las Vegas police for their quick response to a public mass shooting.
  Chase Shumway was born and raised in Las Vegas. In the mid-‘90s he moved with his family to Juneau, where he lived for about 10 years. After he graduated high school he moved back to Las Vegas.
  He said the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been practicing their emergency prepared
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10-3-17

  02-10-2017 21:00 via ktoo.org
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon, Sheli DeLaney will be your host:
   
  We’ll get an update on library activities;
   
  We’ll learn about heat pumps with guest, Danielle Redmond;
   
  We’ll discuss End of Life issues with Dr. Jessica Zitter and Hal Geiger;
   
  And we’ll talk with Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Assistant Principal Kristy Germain.
   
   
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6, it’s Alaska News Nightly.
   
  
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• Ombudsman: Officers who made inmates strip acted wrongly

  02-10-2017 17:36 via ktoo.org
  KENAI — An investigation by the Alaska Ombudsman’s office found that the Alaska Department of Corrections acted wrongly when officers forced a group of male inmates in Seward to strip naked in 2013 and then left them in cells that way.
  The Peninsula Clarion reported Sunday that an inmate submitted a complaint on Aug. 23, 2013, claiming that in retaliation to inmates acting up, correctional officers took him and 11 other inmates out of their cells “for no reason,” sha
  
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• More than 50 people are dead after a mass shooting on Las Vegas Strip

  02-10-2017 15:36 via ktoo.org
  Update | 6:33 p.m. AKST
  President Donald Trump is speaking at 10:30 a.m. ET from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. Trump had been briefed earlier in the morning on the country music festival attack and tweeted, “My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!”Updated at 9 a.m. ET
  A gunman who fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las
  
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• Juneau police use Taser, bean bag round to detain suspect

  02-10-2017 04:51 via ktoo.org
  It took a Taser, a bean bag round and a chase before Juneau police managed to apprehend a suspect who resisted arrest Saturday night.
  Police responded to a call that 27-year-old Zachary Pratt was causing a disturbance inside a business on Hospital Drive shortly before 9:30 p.m., according to a release from the Juneau Police Department.
  Upon arrival, officers served Pratt with a warrant for his arrest on the grounds that he had violated his probation. At that point, according to the release, Prat
  
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• Rep. Birch asks governor to move special session to Anchorage

  02-10-2017 02:45 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Rep. Chris Birch, R-Anchorage, argues over the debut of an oil tax credit bill, during a floor session of the state House in February.  He wants the Legislature’s October special session to be held in Anchorage. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  An Anchorage lawmaker is requesting the Legislature’s October special session be held in Anchorage instead of Juneau.
  In a letter to Gov. Bill Walker, Republican Rep. Chris Birch argued it would save money and increa
  
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