Alaska News February 16, 2019

KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Two Kids Fall Through Ice Behind AC Quickstop, But A Young Man Saves Them and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Chris Klint: Troopers make Maine arrest in 25-year-old Fairbanks murder
 
 
 
 
By Sandra Medearis for the Nome Nugget: Bering Straits School District to pay $12.6M in student sex abuse case
Alaska State Troopers took Oxereok, then 43, into custody in September 2016 after a parent filed a complaint on child sex abuse at the Wales school. More victims came forward. Oxereok pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree Sex Abuse of a Minor Under Age 13 in Aug. 2017. He went to prison in February 2018 to begin serving a sentence of 20 years.
 
 
 
 
By KTVA: Man sentenced for theft, damage at marijuana business
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A 40-year-old man who stole or damaged $144,000 in marijuana at an Anchorage cultivation facility has been sentenced to two years in prison.
 
 
 
 
By Chris Klint: Anchorage substance abuse rises after PFD payments, ISER finds
 
 
 
 
By KTUU Digital Staff: Smoked Alaska Seafoods issues recall of Smoked Silver Salmon cans
Containers with the production code AL81111133 on the bottom of the jar may be contaminated or may become contaminated with clostridium botulinum, which can lead to botulism — a rare but potentially deadly bacterial infection.
 
 
 
 
KTOO Public Media: Multi-partisan House majority takes shape; Dunleavy offers Alaska National Guard support to Trump’s emergency declaration; Legislative Finance gets ready to release its version of Dunleavy’s new budget; Fashion faux pas? MLM company LuLaRoe sued in Alaska over sales taxes. More ->
 
 
 
 
By Kristen Durand: Chugiak High band director hopes to bring new life to the program