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Vehicle theft suspect crashes into Anchorage restaurant - TimesDaily: State

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 33-year-old man is facing new charges after a chase with authorities ended with the suspect vehicle crashing into an ...
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Anchorage store owner disarms woman with gun, knife in robbery attempt | Alaska Dispatch News

An Anchorage cigarette store owner facing her first-ever armed robbery said Friday she stopped feeling fear after disarming the attacker of a gun and then a knife.Young Jun, 39, said her first indication that 33-year-old Tonya Holler wasn’t an ordinary customer was the moment she reached into her purse and pulled out a pistol.“I asked if the gun is real and she said, ‘Yes, yes!’” Jun said, mimicking the weapon being pointed in her face.According to police spokeswoman Renee Oistad, Holler has bee..
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Rare hummingbird spotted in Anchorage | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

Estimated read time1m 8sRare hummingbird spotted in AnchorageByHeather Hintze2:45 PM November 13, 2015ANCHORAGE –People in a Turnagain neighborhood are keeping an eye on a Costa’s hummingbird that showed up a few weeks ago. It’s a female bird weighing only a tenth of an ounce.W. Keys, the commander in chief for the Anchorage Audubon Society, said it’s an extremely rare sighting. There are only four reports of Costa’s hummingbirds ever seen in Anchorage.Keys said that species of bird is native to..
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Paris attacks: How will France respond?

(CNN) -President Francois Hollande has called the worst violence witnessed in France since World War II "an act of war" planned outside the country "with inside complicity.""When the terrorists are capable of doing such acts," he said, "they must know that they will face a France very determined."A string of nearly simultaneous terror attacks on six sites Friday night in Paris left at least 129 people dead, including a massacre at a concert hall, where at least 80 people were killed.The bloodshe..
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Alaska's high health care costs

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— In 2007, Marcy Merrill decided it was finally time to get some help. She was obese, but wouldn't truly admit it.Then one day, "I looked up and saw myself in the mirror . really saw myself," Merrill said. At that moment, she knew she needed a medical intervention.Merrill, who was living in Nome at the time, began researching the costs of lap band bariatric surgery, a procedure that causes weight loss by restricting the amount of food a person's stomach can hold.Her insurance di..
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Recall targets mayor in family spending controversy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Residents are working to recall the mayor whose staff spent public money on purchases from and for her family members.Eighteen residents who applied for the recall petition against North Slope Mayor Charlotte Brower began collecting signatures last week. They have until Jan. 8 to gather 492 signatures to force a new election, KTVA-TV reported (http://bit.ly/1MtjZN7).In a statement, Brower said she is disappointed by the recall effort but that she respects the political process..
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Mormons leave church over same-sex policy

(CNN) -Hundreds of Mormons plan to resign from the church in protest Sunday over a new policy that labels same-sex couples apostates, despite an attempt by the Church of Latter-day Saints to clarify its new decree.The policy bars children of parents in same-sex relationships from being baptized.A call for mass resignations started about a week ago, when the LDS church released new guidelines for lay leaders known as "Handbook1."One policy prohibits the "natural or adopted" children of parents in..
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Alan Arkin has 'mini stroke'

LOS ANGELES -Actor Alan Arkin spent a day in the hospital this week after suffering a minor stroke, a publicist said.Melody Korenbrot said the 81-year-old Oscar winner was taken to a hospital after being stricken Monday and released the following day, The Associated Press reported. She said despite the "mini stroke" Arkin was back home reading a script for a possible new movie on Friday, the news service reported.Arkin won a best supporting actor Oscar for 2006's "Little Miss Sunshine" and 2009'..
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Witness inside the Bataclan: 'A bloodbath'

(CNN) -Police told Denis Plaud not to look around when he emerged from hiding in a small room of the Bataclan theater Friday night.He looked."There was blood everywhere. Even people alive were covered with blood," he told reporters. "There was especially on the ground floor a lot of dead bodies and blood, and some people had been alive and had to stay for several hours among dead corpse[s] and they went out covered with blood."Plaud and about 15 others hid for three hours in a small room upstair..
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Paris attacks likely to dominate Dem debate

(CNN) -Three Democratic presidential candidates will gather in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday night for a debate that has been jolted by the terrorist attacks across Paris that killed more than 100 people and that the French President has declared an "act of war."The gunfire and explosions in Paris will likely move national security issues to center stage in a Democratic primary that has so far largely focused on progressive issues such as income inequality and controversies like Hillary Clinton'..
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