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Armed robbery at Valley apartment under investigation
Police are searching for two suspects involved in an armed robbery at an apartment complex in the Mendenhall Valley this morning.
(Monday)
Sergeant Ed Mercer says they were notified just before nine a.m.
Officers found a 26 year old man and a 24 year old woman at the residence. They told police that two men entered their apartment without permission.
An altercation resulted and during the fight one of the suspects displayed a gun and one or both demanded money and other items. They fled the scene shortly after the altercation.
Police searched the area but were not able to locate the suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 586-0600. That's 586-0600.
Police are releasing descriptive information or saying what the suspects made off
Troopers searching for woman
A search is on for a 46 year old woman in the Juneau area.
State Troopers and SEADOGS are searching for Rebecca Mass (Moss) at the end of the North Douglas Highway.
The woman's car was located at about 5 p.m. Sunday.
She was last seen when she dropped her son off at a friends house
at about four Saturday afternoon.
Mass failed to return at the predetermined time to pick her son up and a few hours later was reported missing.
Bruce Bowler of SEADOGS says its their belief that the woman is still lost, but there's a chance she may have made it back to town with another party.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact State Troopers at 465-4000.
Juneau hit by storm packing heavy snow
A heavy snow warning is in effect for the Juneau area.
There was anywhere from ten to 16 inches yesterday, according to Meteorologist Bob Shontz in the Juneau Forecast Office.
He says another six inches is forecast today and a like amount overnight. Another front coming from the south will dump another six inches on the area Tuesday.
Shontz says the storm will bring between 24 and 36 inches by Tuesday evening.
We asked about the conditions in Haines and Skagway.
A winter storm watch and a high wind warning with gusts to 60 miles per hour are in effect for Haines and Skagway.
Gusts to 60 are also forecast in Gustavus. A heavy snow watch for Gustavus and Hoonah is in effect for Tuesday with a total accumulation of 30 inches.
There's a snow advisory in effect for Angoon today with an accumulation of up to four inches.
Crews out removing snow
from roads
Road crews were clearing the major arteries of snow this morning, according
to Juneau Police.
Sergeant Ed Mercer, who is the shift supervisor today, told us before eight
this morning that a lot of the side streets were still poor condition.
He recommended that residents stay in doors, if there's not a need to drive.
But if people must drive, the sergeant recommended doing so with caution and
keep on the look out for road crews.
There were no major traffic accident reports prior to eight a.m.
All lifts operating at
Eaglecrest
Its looking good at Eaglecrest today.
The ski area received over a foot of new snow since yesterday.
There's an 85 inch base at the top of the mountain and 24 inches at the
bottom.
All the lifts, including Ptarmigan, Hooter and Platter, are operating today.
The Ptarmigan lift may open later since there was avalanche control work
going on. Hiker were warned not to hike up to that area this morning.
The tubing hill will be open from Noon to 4 p.m.
Coast Guard searching for 17 year old boy near Ketchikan
The Coast Guard is conducting a search today
for a kayaker in the Ketchikan area.
Lieutenant Susan Parrish in the Juneau Command Center says the object of the search is 17 year-old
Gerard Fudge who is the class president at Ketchikan High School.
She says
his kayak was found, Monday, pulled above the high tide mark near Gravina
Point. Some of his personal items were found in a nearby cabin but the
young man has not been located.
The Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue
Service ground team with a dog searched Monday.
A Coast Guard helicopter from
Air Station Sitka, two boats from Station Ketchikan, ground searchers along
with several good Samaritan vessels are participating in the search.
The search will continue at
first light Tuesday.
Search continues for
missing crew members
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Authorities have released the name of one of the
crewmen who died when a crab boat sank in the Bering Sea -- and a search
continues for three others still missing.
Alaska State Troopers say one of two crewmen found dead after the Big Valley
sank Saturday was Carlos Rivero of Uruguay. No hometown was given.
Another crewman from Belgium also was found dead, but troopers have not been
able to locate relatives and have not released his name. A third crew member
pulled from the water is recovering.
The Coast Guard continues to search for three others on board the 92-foot
boat -- including the skipper Gary Edwards -- who went down with the boat.
The Coast Guard, meanwhile, called off its search for a crewman washed
overboard from another crab boat Saturday.
The crewman has been identified as 33-year-old Manu Lagai of Spokane,
Washington. He was washed off the Sultan 150 miles northwest of Saint Paul
Island and was not wearing a survival suit.
Changes coming for crab fishery in Bering
Sea
ANCHORAGE (AP) - There are changes ahead for Bering Sea crab fisheries this year.
Federal fishery managers plan to eliminate open derbies and implement a new quota system in an effort to create a safer industry.
The new system would assign individual catch quotas for each boat, doing away with a highly competitive system.
Many in the industry say that quotas may save lives by eliminating some of the frenzy in crabbing.
Fishery managers still must finish regulatory paperwork to launch the new management plan by an October target date.
Search continues for missing snowmachiner
ANCHORAGE (AP) - The search continues for a missing
snowmachiner.
Alaska State Troopers say 30-year-old Bill Smith of Napakiak in western Alaska left Kasigluk early Friday morning.
He was headed to Napakiak, but never arrived. The trip should have taken just an hour.
Smith may have decided to go to the Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race. Someone there says he saw him later Friday in Bethel at the start of the race.
Troopers are asking anyone who has seen Smith to notify troopers in Bethel.
Celebration planned at Centennial Hall in honor of Dr. King
Today is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior national holiday.
Government offices, schools, banks and credit unions are closed.
The Legislature is not in session today and no committee meetings are scheduled.
Juneau's annual celebration sponsored by the Black Awareness Association is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Centennial Hall.
Michelle Monts will be the keynote speaker.
Special music is planned by Sherry Patterson, SaLissa Cooper and the Alaska
Children's Choir.
Young reintroduces ANWR bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - U-S Representative Don Young has resubmitted legislation to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The bill offered by the Alaska Republican is identical to the one he submitted during the 108th Congress, which expired last year.
But the current bill differs from versions passed by the U-S House of Representatives in recent years.
Young's bill suggests no change to the existing federal law that would give 90 percent of the oil royalties to the state of Alaska.
The federal government would retain ten percent.
That split dates back to the Alaska Statehood Act, approved by Congress in 1958. Alaska officially became a state in 1959.
In recent sessions, the U-S House has approved legislation that would split the revenues 50-50 between the state and federal governments.
Such a reduction in the state's share of what could be billions of dollars has been controversial within the state for decades.
Sport fishing guide licenses now available
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Sport fishing guiding licenses are now available from the state for 2005.
The licenses are available from all offices of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
They also are available online through the department's Web site at
www.sf.adfg.state.ak.us
Click on the link called ``Info for Guides and Charters.''
Fish and Game officials say that new regulations require sport fishing charter guides and business owners to have a current state occupational business license from the Division of Occupational Licensing.
Owners also must have liability or marine protection insurance.
Sport fishing guides must have a 2005 sport fishing license and Coast Guard operator's license in operating a motorized vessel on navigable waters.
Fee proposal gets mixed support
JUNEAU - Lawmakers in the Interior say the Alaska Department of Fish and Game should get easy approval for a plan to increase fees for fishing licenses.
Fish and Game wants to increase fishing license prices by five dollars to generate money for a new Fairbanks fish hatchery and renovations to Anchorage hatcheries.
However, the lawmakers say a plan to increase hunting and trapping license fees will likely get more resistance.
Fish and Game announced last year it would ask the Legislature this session for approval to increase the license fees for fishing, hunting and trapping.
Representative Mike Kelly of Fairbanks says he has no problem with the fee increase to benefit the hatcheries. But he says he wants to hear more about what the increase in hunting and trapping fees will be used for.
Late shift relieves crowding at Palmer courthouse
PALMER (AP) - Night court has been added to the Palmer courthouse to deal with an ever increasing workload.
Judges and clerks will work a two to ten p-m shift in a makeshift courtroom.
Judges will hear traffic cases Wednesday and Thursday nights, and a wider array of hearings on Friday nights.
Court officials say the later hearings will benefit people who work during the day, as well as nightshift police officers.
Court administrator Wendy Lyford says the valley's continued growth prompted the addition of night court. She says court filings are up 20 percent this fiscal year compared to last year.
Report says convention
industry is shrinking
A report published today says the convention business is shrinking.
The report by a University of Texas professor says at the same time dozens of cities - including Anchorage - are planning or building larger convention centers.
Professor Heywood Sanders says demand for convention space nationwide has been declining and likely won't be increasing, despite upbeat projections from industry groups.
Anchorage convention center proponents want a 193-thousand-square-foot center on what is now a parking lot between the Conoco Phillips and Atwood buildings downtown.
Voters in April will have to approve raising the city's hotel tax to 12 percent from 8 percent to pay for the center.
Murkowski appoints Schally to Valdez court
JUNEAU (AP) - The governor today appointed Daniel Schally to the Valdez District Court.
Schally has served as an assistant district attorney in Ketchikan since 1998.
Prior to his work in Ketchikan, he served as a law clerk in Kodiak.
Schally received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Minnesota.
He fills the seat left vacant by the appointment of Judge Joel Bolger to the Kodiak Superior Court.
Hakkinen going to his 3rd Olympics
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Jay Hakkinen of Kasilof is going to his 3rd Olympics.
Hakkinen is a biathlete. He finished third yesterday in a World Cup 12-point-five kilometer race to secure a spot on the Olympic team.
Any athlete with two top-15 finishes in the World Cup automatically earns a spot on the Olympic team and can avoid the U-S Olympic Trials.
Earlier this season, Hakkinen finished seventh at another World Cup race in Sweden.
Iditarod winner Mitch Seavey wins Kusko 300
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Mitch Seavey -- last year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race winner -- has won the Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race.
Seavey finished the race in 42 hours, 27 minutes and 29 seconds. It was Seavey's first Kusko win -- and his first race since winning last year's Iditarod.
The Seward musher finished almost 47 minutes faster than second-place finisher Ed Iten (EE-ten) of Kotzebue.
Iditarod champion Martin Buser of Big Lake was third. He crossed the finish line 20 minutes after
Iten.
The total purse for the Kusko was 100-thousand dollars.
For coming in first, Seavey took home 20-thousand dollars.
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