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• Anchorage still needs dozens of new officers for ideal police force ...

  An updated study recommends the Anchorage Police Department expand its ranks of sworn officers to 446, the same number encouraged five years ago by the original report.“The important thing to remember with the report is it’s a set of recommendations, and from these recommendations it tells us we’re on the right track,” said Anchorage police Chief Chris Tolley, referring to a series of police academies in the past year and revamped recruitment efforts.Tolley said a more realistic goal is growing ..

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• Man caught by soldiers in 2014 Anchorage sexual assault found guilty

  

  An Anchorage jury has found a man guilty of sexually assaulting a woman nearly two years ago after prosecutors said he didn’t stop until passing soldiers noticed him and called police.Wednesday’s verdict against Timothy Walunga, 57, convicting him of second-degree attempted sexual assault and third-degree sexual assault, was announced in a Thursday statement by Anchorage District Attorney Clint Campion.Campion said Walunga assaulted the woman near a car lot where the soldiers had been shopping f..

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• Former congressional candidates face off in East Anchorage ...

  

  At least one thing unites the two candidates in the East Anchorage Assembly race: Both have tried, at different times, to unseat long-serving incumbent U.S. Rep. Don Young.One of the candidates, Forrest Dunbar, 31, an officer and attorney in the Alaska National Guard, ran against Young in 2014 as the Democratic nominee. He lost, but posed a serious challenge to Young, boosted by his “Run Forrest Run” slogan and a savvy social media campaign.Since then, as well as working for the Guard on militar..

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• February shatters global heat records

  

  (CNN) - The month of February broke another heat record for the planet -- the latest in a string of broken monthly records that bring the Earth closer to the symbolic 2 degree Celsius temperature hike predicted to spark catastrophic consequences. February smashed the previous record for the warmest February and even became the warmest month ever compared to average, according to NOAA, which released the data Thursday. February temperatures over land and ocean averaged a scorching 2.18 F/1.21 ..

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