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• Girl missing since Monday in East Anchorage has been found ...

  

  Anchorage Girl missing since Monday in East Anchorage has been found, police say Author: Chris Klint Updated: 15 hours ago Published 16 hours ago Anchorage police say missing 12-year-old Tyleesha Inkster, last seen Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 in East Anchorage, was found safe Wednesday. (From APD)

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• DNA leads to Anchorage cabbie's conviction in 2014 sexual assault

  

  "She said she wanted to talk about last night and he said, 'Oh yeah, from the bar,' " Olson said. "She said, 'You hurt me, you forced me;' he said, 'Oh, no' — she said, 'You're saying we didn't have sex?' and he hung up on her."

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• Royal Suite fire deemed arson and homicide; police seek person of ...

  

  Vivian Hall, 63, Teuaililo Nua, 38, and Laura Kramer, 70, died of injuries from the fire or the evacuation of the building. More than a dozen others were hurt, and the Red Cross assisted more than 30 displaced tenants.

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• Fire at Mad Myrna's bar quickly extinguished

  

  Anchorage Fire at Mad Myrna's bar quickly extinguished Author: Chris Klint Updated: 10 hours ago Published 17 hours ago Anchorage firefighters brought a fire on the second floor of Mad Myrna’s bar, on Fifth Avenue, under control in about 20 minutes on Wednesday. (Rugile Kaladyte / Alaska Dispatch News)

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• Biologists ask Alaska residents to count moose

  

  Is there a moose on the loose? Count it. That’s what residents of Anchorage, Alaska are being told in an effort to figure out how many of the antlered animals are roaming around the city. On Sunday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game asked the public to call, text, or email each time they saw a member of the four-legged species so that state biologists could get an official moose count. Moose are a regular site for those living in Anchorage. They could often be seen strolling through parks,..

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• Anchorage Assembly talks health care cost transparency, ride ...

  

  Estimated read time 1m 21s Anchorage Assembly talks health care cost transparency, ride-sharing companies, drones By Daniella Rivera 10:58 AM March 1, 2017 ANCHORAGE – After Tuesday night’s Anchorage Assembly meeting, Anchorage residents should have better access to information about how much health care services will cost. The Assembly passed an ordinance that requires health care practitioners and facilities to give patients an estimate of the amount they anticipate will be billed...

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• Anchorage lawmaker pushes first education tax in Alaska since 1980

  

  JUNEAU – If Alaskans are to pay an income tax, would knowing that the money is going straight to education ease the pain on their wallets? Anchorage Democratic Rep. Matt Claman thinks so.  “People generally like that,” he said. “People can see it’s going to the schools, it’s not going to somewhere else.”  Claman rolled out House Bill 146 last week as an alternative to an income tax under consideration in the Alaska House of Representatives, House Bill 115. His measure would tax Alaskans betwee..

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• Anchorage Credit Union 1 Teller Sentenced for Embezzlement

  

  Anchorage Credit Union 1 Teller Sentenced for Embezzlement U.S Attorney Karen Loeffler of the Justice Department, announced today that a former employee of Credit Union 1, was sentenced to one year in jail for embezzling on Tuesday. According to the release issued on Wednesday, 23-year-old Shanice Mano, of Anchorage, accessed a customer’s account and transferred $100,000 from their account into another account that she had control over while she worked as a teller at the bank. Af..

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• Undeclared: Schooled

  

  Veteran educator and School Board candidate Andy Holleman on the new Secretary of Education and possible repercussions for Anchorage schoolsIn the most dramatic of President Donald Trump’s cabinet confirmation votes, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, broke with her party (as did Senator Susan Collins of Maine), voting against confirming Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, and causing Vice President Mike Pence to cast a historic tie-breaking vote to ensure DeVos’s ascension to the ..

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• Long-awaited cellphone tower rises up in Anchorage's Kincaid Park ...

  

  Anchorage Long-awaited cellphone tower rises up in Anchorage's Kincaid Park, disguised as a tree Author: Devin Kelly Updated: 7 hours ago Published 7 hours ago Steelhead Communications workers install treelike branches to cover a cellphone tower at Kincaid Park on March 1, 2017. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)

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