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• Warm Anchorage weather on Black Friday makes 'opting outside' a challenge | Alaska Dispatch News

  Normally, the exhortation by outdoor gear companyREItospend time outside on Black Fridayrather than shop would be an easy sell in Southcentral Alaska.A solid snowpack on the vast network of trails in and around Anchorage usually draws cross-country skiers, snowshoers and fat-bikers. Frozen ponds and lakes attract ice skaters -- and skiers, too, if there's enough snow cover.But relatively warm weather this week turned many winter sports enthusiasts like Mike Miller, a board member for the Nordic ..

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• Drexel falls to D-II Alaska Anchorage at Great Alaska Shootout | Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia

  

  Sophomore guard Sammy Mojica scored a career-high 20 points in Drexel's loss to Division II Alaska Anchorage. (USA Today Images) ...

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• Annual ceremony lights up downtown Anchorage | Local News - KTUU

  

  ( KTUU - TV ) It's an annual tradition that ignites the community's Christmas spirit. The 2015 Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony lit up the Black Friday in Anchorage.

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• Locally-owned Anchorage stores brace for ‘Small Business Saturday’ | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

  

  ANCHORAGE –Although Black Friday had a low turnout in Anchorage this year, many local businesses say they’re banking on Saturday sales.“‘Small Business Saturday’ is always the big push, people come out in full force which is awesome, we appreciate that, completely,” said Annie Ciszak Pazar, owner of Bella Boutique in Spenard. “You know they call it Black Friday because it puts businesses in the black. Well small businesses, this time of year we need that as well. So all of this anti-holiday back..

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• Police: Black Friday shoplifter pulls gun at Anchorage Lowe's | Local News - KTUU

  

  An attempted shoplifter pulled a gun when confronted by employees just before noon today at a Midtown Lowe's, Anchorage police say. The man escaped.

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• Artist and volunteers plan to rebuild Anchorage art display damaged by wind, tides | Alaska Dispatch News

  Creators of a public art installation damaged by tides and high winds on the Anchorage waterfront plan to rebuild the statue-filled exhibit by the original opening date.Lead project artist Sarah Davies said Friday that participants at Point Woronzof have recovered 82 of 85 of the sculptures made of straw, cement, plaster and burlap. She said the official opening is still scheduled for Dec. 5.Most of the figures were toppled by the elements this week, just days after they were installed.Participa..

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• Planned Parenthood gunman named, motive unknown

  

  (CNN) -The nightmare at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic is over. Now comes the time to sort through the sad, sordid, alarming aftermath.Three people were shot dead Friday, including university police Officer Garrett Swasey, whose body was escorted out early Saturday morning by his fellow officers. Five officers and four civilians are hospitalized in good condition, according to city police Lt. Catherine Buckley, after the assault.And then there's the challenge of making sense of all..

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• Tracy Morgan: 'I went to the other side'

  

  (CNN) -Tracy Morgan says his life will never be the same after a near-fatal car crash in June 2014 -- and that's not necessarily a bad thing.In an interview with Complex, the "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" funnyman opened up on life after the collision, which killed longtime friend and comedian James McNair and left Morgan in a coma for two weeks."You're never going to be normal after you go through something like that. You don't die for a few weeks and then come back to normal, trust me," ..

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• Prominent pro-Kurdish lawyer killed in Turkey

  

  (CNN) -Pro-Kurdish lawyer Tahir Elci, president of the Diyarbakir Bar Association in southeastern Turkey and a leading human rights defender, was killed while making a press statement Saturday.The statement in the Sur district of the predominantly Kurdish Diyarbakir province was intended to call attention to damage done to the 1,500-year-old Four Legged Minaret Mosque by recent clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers' Party militants.Elci was a lead attorney in many cases d..

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• Simplified CPR: Firefighters teach livesaving chest compressions

  

  ANCHORAGE -The difference between surviving a cardiac arrest and dying from it can sometimes be a matter of mere seconds.The Anchorage Fire Department said their patients have a survival rate twice the national average thanks to a hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation method, and they want the community to be aware of how it helps.In an effort to increase the chances of a cardiac patient's survial, AFD and the Anchorage Firefighters Union recently launched theAnchorage Survivors Campaignto cr..

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