Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Anchorage Business Owners Unsure About Future and other top stories.

  • Anchorage Business Owners Unsure About Future

    Anchorage Business Owners Unsure About Future
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  • Woman struck, killed by school district snowplow at East Anchorage ...

    Woman struck, killed by school district snowplow at East Anchorage ...
    An Anchorage School District employee driving a snowplow at a middle school struck and killed a woman Tuesday night, Anchorage police wrote in a press release Wednesday. Just before 10:30 p.m., police say 57-year-old Anica Sofron was walking her dog in the Nicholas J. Begich Middle School parking lot when she was struck by the snowplow. Sofron was wearing dark clothing, police say. The school district employee called for help, remained on the scene and was co-operative with police. Sofron was t..
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  • State seeks hold on booze license for Anchorage strip club, cites ...

    State seeks hold on booze license for Anchorage strip club, cites ...
    State labor officials are seeking to freeze the renewal of a liquor license of an Anchorage strip club, Fantasies on 5th Avenue, while investigating accusations of minimum wage violations.  In a Jan. 19 letter to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, an investigator with the state Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Administration, which investigates minimum wage and overtime violations, asked for a hold to be placed on a license renewal application for the strip club while conducting an investi..
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  • Anchorage police K-9 nabs alleged Subaru thief

    Anchorage police K-9 nabs alleged Subaru thief
    A 25-year-old car thief was chased down by a police K-9 Tuesday morning after authorities cornered a stolen Subaru downtown, according to the Anchorage Police Department.Faofua Afasene, 25, struck a police vehicle and a building in his attempt to flee during the incident, police said. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of "minor injuries sustained during the arrest," police said. After being cleared at the hospital, he'll be taken to the Anchorage jail to await trial on numerous coun..
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  • Rash of car thefts unnerves Anchorage

    Rash of car thefts unnerves Anchorage Seventeen cars were stolen in a single 24-hour period in Anchorage, starting yesterday (Jan. 25) and running through this morning (Jan. 26). Download Audio “Majority of them were cases or scenarios where the motorist had left their key in the ignition running so that it could warm up.” Jennifer Castro is a spokesperson for the Anchorage Police Department. She says 17 stolen cars is an exceptionally high spike, but part of a phenomenon the department is us..
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  • Anchorage lawmaker introduces bill to repay PFD money to those ...

    Anchorage lawmaker introduces bill to repay PFD money to those ...
    Estimated read time 1m 37s Anchorage lawmaker introduces bill to repay PFD money to those wrongly convicted By Liz Raines 8:48 PM January 26, 2016 JUNEAU – Anchorage Rep. Bob Lynn introduced a bill in the House State Affairs committee Tuesday that would ensure an Alaskan with an overturned conviction could collect Permanent Fund dividend money missed while in prison. “The budget, as we know, is at the top of the things we have to look at this session, very, very important obviously, ..
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  • Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson

    Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson
    (CNN) - With all the controversy over #OscarsSoWhite, now may not have been the best time to announce that a white actor has been cast as African-American pop star Michael Jackson. According to The Guardian, Joseph Fiennes will play the late superstar in a made-for-TV drama to appear on the British channel Sky Arts. The TV movie centers around a fabled road trip in which Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando tried to get home to Los Angeles from New York after the September 11 terrorist..
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  • Unlocked, keys inside: Thieves take advantage of unwary drivers

    Unlocked, keys inside: Thieves take advantage of unwary drivers
    ANCHORAGE – Anchorage thieves have stolen 16 cars since Monday morning. The Anchorage Police Department says they’re not sure if the thefts are related, but they normally see only one of two cars stolen every other day. Most of the cars were stolen from residential areas, and most of them were “easy pickings,” like one KTVA found in Spenard: doors unlocked with the engine running with the keys inside. Neighbor Harlen Adkinson said it’s something he sees all the time and it’s not a risk he’s go..
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  • Apple's Safari browser crashed worldwide

    Apple's Safari browser crashed worldwide
    LONDON (CNNMoney) - Apple's Safari browser was unavailable for some users around the world on Wednesday. IPhone, iPad and Mac customers experienced problems when launching Apple's built-in internet browser. The glitch lasted at least seven hours. Apple support forums online pointed to Safari's search suggestions box as the source of the glitch. Typing anything into the box appeared to crash the app.Disabling the feature in the settings menu seems to be a temporary fix to the problem, which s..
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  • Malheur refuge occupation arrests: What's next?

    Malheur refuge occupation arrests: What's next?
    (CNN) - For 26 days, armed occupiers have been holed up in a lonely federal wildlife refuge headquarters in rural Oregon. Dismissing the exhortations of the governor, ignoring the inconveniences of the residents, the occupiers stood their ground, saying they were protesting federal land policies.The government waited patiently for an opportunity to end the situation peacefully. A break came Tuesday night when Ammon Bundy, the group's leader, was arrested along with six others. An eighth pers..
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Quake surprises researchers with extreme differences across ... .Alaska earthquake felt in Anchorage gets whole town talking .
Magnitude-6.8 earthquake in Alaska knocks items off shelves, jolts ... .Charges: Anchorage police set up drug deals with alleged Spice ... .

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