Monday, February 20, 2017

Fierce storm drops a foot of snow on Anchorage in 24 hours and other top stories.

  • Fierce storm drops a foot of snow on Anchorage in 24 hours

    Weather Fierce storm drops a foot of snow on Anchorage in 24 hours Jesse Busha walks home from work through knee-deep snow along DeBarr Road on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)
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  • Heavy snow collapses sports facility dome in Anchorage

    Heavy snow collapses sports facility dome in Anchorage
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Heavy snow has collapsed the roof of an Anchorage sports complex.The Dome is closed and all events have been postponed until repairs can be made. On Saturday night, the roof started to sag and officials evacuated the building. Pressurized air along with cables and pipes support the dome, but the snow load was too heavy and it collapsed later Saturday night.No one was injured, according to a statement from the facility's management. It's unclear when The Dome will reope..
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  • Anchorage business develops cookie to prevent peanut allergies

    Anchorage business develops cookie to prevent peanut allergies
    ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - For an Anchorage start-up, the business of baby food is much more than smashed peas and carrots. The founder of Bambino’s Baby Food said she’s developed a cookie that could prevent a young child from developing a potentially fatal allergy. “It's designed specifically to help children become desensitized from peanut allergy,” said founder Zoi Maroudas. Maroudas said it was her medical background that inspired her to develop the peanut desensitizing cookie called Peanut Mani. S..
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  • ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Family members have identified the 17-year ...

    ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Family members have identified the 17-year ...
    ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Family members have identified the 17-year-old boy fatally shot in Government Hill early Saturday morning as Jesus “JJ” Oropeza. Jesus "JJ" Oropeza. Photo courtesy Fliza Smith Felicia Smith, Oropeza’s aunt, said the boy left his Government Hill home on foot at around midnight Friday after telling his father he planned to walk to the Tesoro Gas Station. The father, concerned about what his son was doing outside at that hour, decided to follow him. By the time he had put on ..
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  • Shooting of teenager killed on Government Hill captured on ...

    Shooting of teenager killed on Government Hill captured on ...
    Lt. John McKinnon of the Anchorage Police Department's homicide division said on Sunday that surveillance video captured the killing, which happened on a street where small, well-kept houses in one of Anchorage's oldest neighborhoods meet a large park. 
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  • Citizen watchdog group hammers state for not responding to Cook ...

    Citizen watchdog group hammers state for not responding to Cook ...
    Officials with Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council say that the leak, discovered Nov. 19 and initially reported as 69,000 gallons but later revised down to 21,000 gallons, should have prompted the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to quickly send an investigator to the scene.
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  • Accused airport shooter was troubled veteran who slipped through ...

    Accused airport shooter was troubled veteran who slipped through ...
    Life in Alaska — with its vast wilderness, fierce independence and gun culture — was exactly what accused airport killer Esteban Santiago did not need.It enabled an obviously troubled person to move almost invisibly through daily life. He slipped through the social safety nets that were supposed to help him and past the authorities that could have disarmed him and prevented him from landing in Fort Lauderdale with a 9mm pistol in his hand and mayhem on his mind. Despite a November admission to..
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  • Sentencing reset for Alaska strip club owner in dumping case

    Sentencing reset for Alaska strip club owner in dumping case
    ANCHORAGE — A sentencing hearing has been canceled for a second day in a row in the case of an Alaska man who was convicted of illegally dumping human waste into a harbor while operating a floating strip club. Darren Byler is now scheduled for sentencing Monday afternoon. He was set to be sentenced in Anchorage this week but twice was unable to make it after his flights, including one on Friday, from Kodiak Island were canceled. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason rescheduled the sentencing afte..
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  • Anchorage snowboarder Mancari strikes gold in World Cup race

    Anchorage snowboarder Mancari strikes gold in World Cup race
    "My mom is here watching for her first race ever, so it's really awesome," Mancari said in a press release from the U.S. Ski Team. "This is my first race in the U.S. that's a World Cup, so the whole atmosphere and community is amazing. I see 100 people and they all want to give me hugs — it's amazing."
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  • Man Shot, Critically Hurt At Early-Morning House Party In San Leandro

    Man Shot, Critically Hurt At Early-Morning House Party In San Leandro
    SAN LEANDRO (CBS SF) — A shooting early Sunday morning at a house party in San Leandro left one man in critical condition, according to police. At about 1 a.m., officers responded to the 15600 block of Anchorage Court after a resident reported a loud house party, police said. When officers arrived, they found about 50 people at the party, all between ages of 18 and 21. Officers later learned the owners of the home were out of town and their adult son was hosting the party. Officers left the res..
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