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• Anchorage police charge man with killing his caretaker at assisted living home | Alaska Dispatch News

  A 25-year-old man was arrested early Saturday after police said he admitted to killing his caregiver at an Anchorage assisted living facility.Just after midnight Saturday, Gilbert Nashookpuk called 911 and told police that his 57-year-old caregiver, Glenna Wyllie, had "made him so angry he strangled, kicked and punched her to death,” Anchorage police spokeswoman Renee Oistad said in a statement.Nashookpuk told police he hid Wyllie's body behind a basement freezer in the assisted living home and then ran away. He said he had killed her about two hours earlier, Oistad said. About 15 minutes after Nashookpuk called 911, he was arrested at the corner of East 88th Avenue and Swiss Place, about 2 ..

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• 25-year-old Anchorage man arrested in caretaker's death - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Alaska News

  Posted:Saturday, November 7, 2015 5:19 pm25-year-old Anchorage man arrested in caretaker's deathAssociated Press|ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A 25-year-old resident at an Anchorage assisted living facility is accused of killing his caretaker.The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/1Pv4uIV) a statement from Anchorage police says officers responded to a 911 call from the man just after midnight Saturday.Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Please click the button below to manage your account.Or, use yourlinkedaccount:kAm%96 A@=:46 DE2E6>6?E BF@E6D E96 >2? 2D D2J:?8 df\J62C\@=5 42C6E2<6C v=6??2 (J==:6 2?86C65 9:> E@ E96 A@:?E E92E 96 DEC2?8=65[ <..

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• Anchorage police: Man arrested for killing caretaker after she ‘made him angry’ | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

  

  Estimated read time1m 19sAnchorage police: Man arrested for killing caretaker after she ‘made him angry’ByKTVA CBS 11 News5:41 AM November 7, 2015ANCHORAGE –25-year-old Gilbert Nashookpuk at arraignmentThe Anchorage Police Department have arrested a man for killing his caretaker sometime in the overnight hours between Friday and Saturday.Just after midnight on Saturday, police received a call from Gilbert Nashookpuk, “who stated he had killed a woman in an assisted living facility where he has been staying,” according to an APD release.The assisted living facility is located on the 6800 block of Viburnum Drive.“Nashookpuk stated his female caretaker, 57-year-old Glenna Wyllie, had made him a..

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• Anchorage police charge man with killing his caretaker at assisted living home | Alaska Dispatch News

  A 25-year-old man was arrested early Saturday after police said he admitted to killing his caregiver at an Anchorage assisted living facility.Just after midnight Saturday, Gilbert Nashookpuk called 911 and told police that his 57-year-old caregiver, Glenna Wyllie, had "made him so angry he strangled, kicked and punched her to death,” Anchorage police spokeswoman Renee Oistad said in a statement.Nashookpuk told police he hid Wyllie's body behind a basement freezer in the assisted living home and then ran away. He said he had killed her about two hours earlier, Oistad said. About 15 minutes after Nashookpuk called 911, he was arrested at the corner of East 88th Avenue and Swiss Place, about 2 ..

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  Firefighters discovered an elderly man who was not breathing when they responded to a house fire in South Anchorage this morning. He later died, according to ...

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• Zanders leads critical win against Crusaders

  ANCHORAGE -The 11th ranked UAA volleyball team avenged one of its two losses this season with Saturday's four game win over Northwest Nazarene 25-15, 18-25, 25-22, 25-21.  UAA's 7th straight win keeps the team in a first place tie with Western Washington atop the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.  Both schools are 14-2 in league play.  UAA improves to 22-2 for the season.Katelynn Zanders led the win over the Crusaders with 20 kills, while Julia Mackey added 15.  Setter Morgan Hooe came within two assists of a career high, dishing out 53.Head coach Chris Green was complimentary of his team's defensive effort as well. Northwest Nazarene was outhit by UAA in terms of attack percentage, .278..

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• Haotong Li bids to make golf history

  

  (CNN) -Some of the world's top golfers are on show in China this weekend, but it could be the performance of a lesser-known player that sparks interest in one of the game's most lucrative growing markets.Haotong Li is still making his way as a professional, but the 20-year-old is in contention to win one of golf's biggest tournaments.More used to playing in low-key events on development tours, Li was one shot off the lead at the HSBC Champions -- one of four World Golf Championships dates on the elite calendar -- ahead of Sunday's final round .He was tied for second in Shanghai with world No. 8 Dustin Johnson and Scotland's Russell Knox as they chased American leader Kevin Kisner. Knox still..

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• Railroad, sewer utility, trail users clash over path near Fish Creek...

  In a narrow corridor between railroad tracks and a West Anchorage conservation watershed, Anchorage’s water and sewer utility has spent the last two months quietly building a new access road -- and a chain-link fence to prevent anyone from using the road to reach the Coastal Trail.The reason for the dirt-and-gravel road, the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility says, is better access to aging sewer pipes beneath the Fish Creek Estuary.But AWWU engineers also imagined laying the foundation for a long-term connection between Northern Lights Boulevard and the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, a concept they say is reflected in city planning documents. People who live nearby have for years walked an..

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• Group: ISIS releases 37 Assyrian Christians

  

  (CNN) -Nine months after their capture by ISIS, dozens of Assyrian Christians can finally head home.The Islamist extremist group released 37 elderly Assyrians Saturday morning, the Assyrian Human Rights Network announced on its Facebook page, adding that they are all in good health.The freed captives traveled by bus to Tal Tamer, the northeastern Syrian city in the area where they and many others were kidnapped in an ISIS onslaught last February.Militants took 215 civilians captive when they overran some three dozen Assyrian villages and towns, the network's founder, Usama Edward, said at the time. Thousands of families fled, including about 600 who took up refuge in St. Mary's Cathedral in ..

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• POLICE: Man kills caretaker, hides body, calls to confess two hours...

  

  ANCHORAGE -UPDATE 3:00 p.m.: Gilbert Nashookpuk was arraigned in court Saturday in connection with the death of his caretaker Glenna Wyllie.Nashookpuk is being charged with first and second degree murder. He has previously been convicted of criminal mischief, assault, theft, harassment and urinating in public. He is also a registered sex offender.UPDATE 11:00 a.m.A 25-year-old man living in an assisted living home killed his 57-year-old caretaker overnight, Anchorage police wrote in a press release Saturday.Gilbert Nashookpuk called police around 12:05 a.m. to report that he had killed his caretaker, Glenna Wyllie. He told police she "made him angry so he strangled, kicked and punched her to..

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