Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Anchorage Assembly's Demboski to host Valley-based talk radio show and other top stories.

  • Anchorage Assembly's Demboski to host Valley-based talk radio show

    Anchorage Assemblywoman Amy Demboski will be hosting her own afternoon talk radio show starting later in April on Wasilla-based KVNT, the station announced Wednesday.The announcement came hours after Demboski, who represents Chugiak-Eagle River, won a second term to the Assembly."The Valley and Anchorage are starving for true conservatives on talk radio in the afternoon," Demboski said in a statement Wednesday morning. "I can peel the curtain back and get down to business in coverage when policy..
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  • With 98 percent of the precincts reporting, here are the leading ...

    With 98 percent of the precincts reporting, here are the leading ...
    UPDATE 11:15 p.m.:With 98 percent of precincts reporting, here are the leaders in the Anchorage Assembly and School Board races:-- Chugiak/Eagle River: Amy Demboski (holding 17 point lead over Nicholas Begich)-- West Anchorage: Eric Croft (holding 12 point lead over Adam Trombley)-- Midtown: Dick Traini (27 point lead over Ron Alleva)-- East Anchorage: Forrest Dunbar (21 point lead over Terre Gales)-- South Anchorage: John Weddleton (3 point lead over Treg Taylor)-- School Board seat A: Bettye ..
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  • Anchorage man sentenced to 10.5 years for armed robbery

    Anchorage man sentenced to 10.5 years for armed robbery
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An Anchorage man convicted of armed robbery with a stolen assault rifle was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 10 years and six months in prison.Twenty-eight-year-old Miguel Batista pleaded guilty Jan. 26 to interference with commerce by robbery and brandishing a gun during a violent crime.Federal prosecutors say Batista in April and May 2015 stole nine assault rifles from the Walmart in Eagle River.On May 20, he carried one in liquor store robbery.Special Assistant U..
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  • Man critically injured in Midtown Anchorage shooting

    Man critically injured in Midtown Anchorage shooting
    A man was in serious condition after being shot multiple times in a Midtown Anchorage parking lot Tuesday evening.The shooting happened in an empty lot on Fairbanks Street between an RV park and an empty business building.The Anchorage Police Department crime scene truck arrived at the scene shortly before 8 p.m. The lot was cordoned off with crime scene tape as officers searched the area.Anchorage police Sgt. Michael Kerle said the RV park residents called when they heard gunshots.The shooting ..
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  • Anchorage voters support tax cap initiative and marijuana taxes

    Anchorage voters support tax cap initiative and marijuana taxes
    With 98 percent of precincts reporting in Tuesday night’s election, Anchorage voters favored a ballot initiative that puts more rigid limits on the growth of the city’s property taxes, and also approved a tax on retail marijuana sales.By 11 p.m., more than 60 percent of voters favored Proposition 8, which will overturn an Assembly decision in October that loosened limits on the growth of the tax cap.Former Mayor Dan Sullivan co-sponsored the initiative and led the effort to place it on the April..
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  • Merle Haggard, country music legend, dies

    Merle Haggard, country music legend, dies
    (CNN) - Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs such as "Okie from Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me" made him a voice for the workingman and the outsider, has died. He was 79. Haggard died Wednesday, his birthday, of complications from pneumonia at his home in Northern California, his agent Lance Roberts told CNN. Haggard recorded more than three dozen No. 1 country hits in a musical career that spanned six decades, from the 1960s into the 2010s. He overcame an early li..
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  • Anchorage high school sees rise in prescription drug abuse among ...

    Anchorage high school sees rise in prescription drug abuse among ...
    ANCHORAGE - South Anchorage High School is seeing a rise in prescription drug abuse among students, according to a recent letter written to parents by school principal Kersten Johnson-Struempler.“In recent weeks, we have seen a rise in the amount of students at SAHS who are either under the influence of prescription drugs and/or are in possession of prescription drugs that are not prescribed to them,” Struempler said in the letter.Struempler goes on to discuss the health risks of taking non-pr..
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  • Davis has strong lead in one Anchorage School Board race, other ...

    Davis has strong lead in one Anchorage School Board race, other ...
    Incumbent Bettye Davis will serve a second term on the Anchorage School Board after a majority of voters Tuesday chose her for Seat A.  Meanwhile, Kay Schuster appeared poised to take the second open spot on the board, with nearly 98 percent of precincts reporting and 379 votes separating her from her competitor for Seat B.Davis, 77, had a decisive victory in this year’s election. She won 56 percent of the votes. Her sole challenger, Brent Hughes, had nearly 43 percent.Davis said Monday that she..
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  • Volunteers see low turnout for Anchorage municipal election

    Volunteers see low turnout for Anchorage municipal election
    ANCHORAGE – Turnout for municipal elections is traditionally lower than state or national elections, especially if the mayor’s office isn’t up for grabs. Tuesday’s election was no exception. KTVA visited several polling places and spoke with volunteers and voters to see how things were going. At St. Anthony’s Church in Mountain View, volunteers said they saw fewer voters than in year’s past. Both of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Anchorage saw low turnout, according to volunteers on site. Things ..
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  • Model has cheeky response to fat-shamer

    Model has cheeky response to fat-shamer
    (CNN) - Watch out, body-shamers. Celebrities are fighting back. British model Iskra Lawrence had a creative, and cheeky, response recently to a commenter who called her a "fat cow" on Instagram.First, she posted a photo of herself wearing lingerie and surrounded by bags of potato chips, a defiant sneer on her face and her left hand buried in a bag as if in mid-snack. Lawrence followed that with a slow-motion Instagram video of her eating a chip and then making an obscene gesture to the camera..
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