An NHL career continues: Anchorage's Carle signs with Nashville and other top stories.

• An NHL career continues: Anchorage's Carle signs with Nashville

  

  Alaska remains hockey heaven -- the Alaska Aces are the 2014 ECHL champions, the UAA Seawolves play in NCAA Division I, Alaskans dot the NHL landscape, and Alaska-connected players grind it out in both North American leagues and circuits abroad. Doyle Woody, aka Jaromir Blagr, who has covered the game here for 31 years, keeps you up to date and tak

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• A man charged with using a hammer to attack a registered sex ...

  

  According to a recent bail memorandum, Jason Vukovich, a self-styled "avenging angel" according to one of the victims, carried a notebook with a list of names, including Charles Albee, Andres Barbosa and Wesley Demarest. Over five days in June, he entered the homes of the three men, uninvited, and hit them, sometimes with his fists and sometimes with a hammer. He also stole from them, said the bail memorandum signed by assistant district attorney Patrick McKay.

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• Anchorage economic report: Pain ahead, but not devastation

  

  Anchorage Economic Development Corp. CEO Bill Popp addresses the crowd at the group's annual economic forecast luncheon on Wednesday, July 27. (Photo ...

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• Anchorage economic report: Pain ahead, but not devastation

  

  Anchorage Economic Development Corporation CEO Bill Popp addresses the crowd at the group’s annual economic forecast luncheon on Wednesday, July 27. (Photo by Graelyn Brashear, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage) The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation’s annual forecast for the local economy is usually pretty sunny, but the steep drop in oil prices last year means Anchorage and Alaska are in the midst of the first economic downturn in nearly three decades. Still, the overall message at the ..

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• War Birds take to the skies over Anchorage ahead of Arctic Thunder

  

  The Arctic Thunder Air Show and Open House is this weekend at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, but it’s not all about the latest and greatest airplanes. World War II-era planes knows as War Birds are also part of the air show. The War Birds are part of the Wings of Freedom Commemorative Air Force, a group dedicated to preserving and showing off planes used in war time. World War II veteran Tom Godfrey took to the sky Wednesday in a T6 Texan, although he said it’s a little smaller ..

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• Anchorage police investigate shooting of teenage driver

  Anchorage television station KTVA reports the 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest early Monday. Police spokeswoman Anita Shell said he was taken to a ...

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Anchorage Assembly cracks down on empty, boarded-up buildings .	2 dead, 17 hurt in shooting at teen party in Florida nightclub .
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