Photos: Firefighters extinguish East Anchorage apartment blaze and other top stories.

• Photos: Firefighters extinguish East Anchorage apartment blaze

  Firefighters continue to work to extinguish an apartment fire at 1580 Russian Jack Drive in East Anchorage early Monday, April 11, 2016.

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• 3 years after child's death, Anchorage woman thanks family for ...

  

  Malinda Proud knew six months into her pregnancy that the baby she was carrying had a rare condition called hydranencephaly. It basically meant that most of the baby’s brain would be missing. Medical professionals urged Proud, then a teenager, to end the pregnancy. She refused. After her son was born, social workers at Alaska Native Medical Center encouraged her to place the baby, named AJ, for adoption.Proud refused. “I knew he was supposed to be a part of my life, she said.Given a month to l..

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• Anchorage to host national high school academic decathlon ...

  

  High school students from around the world will be in Anchorage at the end of this month for the 35th annual United States Academic Decathlon National Competition. The decathlon tests competitors in a range of subjects including science, social studies, math and music. Students compete in school teams and as individuals in divisions determined by school size and previous academic achievement, with several prizes and scholarships awarded to the top finishers.Curtis Clifton, USAD’s Alaska state di..

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• Kepler spacecraft stable after cosmic scare

  

  (CNN) - After three days in emergency mode, NASA's Kepler spacecraft is stable again -- prompting sighs of relief 75 million miles away. Kepler, a telescope that searches for habitable planets, showed signs of distress and went into emergency mode Thursday."Emergency mode is the lowest operational mode and is fuel intensive," NASA said.It's still not clear what went wrong. But on Sunday, the spacecraft reached a stable state with the communication antenna pointed toward Earth, NASA said. "Th..

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• Man missing after breaking through Kuskokwim River ice

  Man missing after breaking through Kuskokwim River ice By Associated Press 4:05 PM April 11, 2016 TULUKSAK, Alaska (AP) – A 26-year-old man who broke through ice on the Kuskokwim River is missing. Alaska State Troopers say three people Sunday were on a snowmobile that broke through bad ice on the river near the Tuluksak River. Two people were pulled out of the hole by a witness. The missing man is from Tuluksak, a village 35 miles northeast of Bethel. The man’s name was not immediately..

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• Source: Attackers sought to target Euro 2016

  

  (CNN) - The cell that carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks sought to target the Euro 2016 soccer championships in France, ISIS terror suspect Mohamed Abrini has told interrogators, according to a source close to the investigation. Investigators are working to verify Abrini's claims, the source told CNN. Also, a computer used by Brussels attackers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui and found in a garbage bin outside the group's bomb factory contained a file of research indicating La Defense..

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