Man charged with assaulting 3 people in Anchorage and other top stories.

• Man charged with assaulting 3 people in Anchorage

  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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• 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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• Anchorage woman charged and arrested for embezzling $100K ...

  

  Around the time she stopped showing up for work altogether, her husband paid off an $11,000 car loan, in cash, at the bank, according to the complaint.

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• Crew members forced to abandon ship in Bering Sea heading to ...

  

  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) Crew members of a factory trawler forced to abandon ship in the Bering Sea after apparent engine trouble appear to be happy and in very good spirits despite their ordeal, according to Adak’s former harbor master. They were preparing to board chartered flights back Anchorage on Wednesday evening. “It’s amazing that everybody abandoned ship, that everyone had survival suits, everyone got in the life rafts and nobody got injured,” said Elaine Smiloff, an Adak resident who worked a..

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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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• Police say missing girl, 13, found safe

  

  ANCHORAGE (KTUU) UPDATE:Anchorage police say missing 13-year-old Brianna Lewis was found safe just after 9 p.m. Tuesday in South Anchorage. ORIGINAL POST:Anchorage police are searching for a teenager who ran away from home Sunday. Brianna Lewis, 13, left around 9 a.m. and her family worries she might try to harm herself, according to Anchorage Police Department. Lewis is 5 feet 3 inches tall and 140 pounds, with dyed black hair and blue eyes. Police say she may be with another girl, a teenage ..

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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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