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“Above zero? Time to put the parka away.”
The weather.Today will be sunny with temperatures above zero.
High today ..............23Low tonight ..............0
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Power restored to Eielson Air Force Base homes affected by last weekend’s outage. » A4Inside Today
RED LIGHTArizona governor vetoes bill that would provide legal protection to business owners who refuse service to gays.
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Aurora forecast.Auroral activity will be active. Weather permit-ting, active displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Anchorage and Juneau.
This information is provid-ed by aurora forecasters at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more infor-mation about the aurora, visit http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
GAMES RAMP UPArctic Winter Games reaches fundraising goal on schedule.
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Police: Shooting likely was drug robberyBy Sam [email protected]
Fairbanks police believe a Tues-day morning apartment shooting likely was a drug-inspired rob-bery, according to the detective assigned to the case.
Two people were taken to Fair-banks Memorial Hospital on Tues-day with gunshot wounds follow-ing the shootout at a Wedgewood Resort apartment.
“This does not appear to be like a drug deal gone bad. These guys weren’t there to buy drugs and got ripped off,” Detective Peyton Merideth said in an interview Wednesday afternoon. “This was a robbery, burglary.”
Two armed people approached the apartment, and someone inside the apartment fired. The shooting started about 2:10 a.m., and during the next few minutes, at least 10 shots were fired, he said.
The two men who were shot and hospitalized are in stable con-dition. Police are not releasing the names of anyone involved, or even saying whether the injured men were the apartment’s occu-pants or the attackers because the information could jeopardize the investigation, Merideth said. Police previously stated that one of the injured was a 30-year-old man and another was a 21-year-old man.
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Assembly asked to buy bus stop shelters By Amanda BohmanFOR THE NEWS-MINER
A request to buy about 15 new bus stop shelters comes before the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly tonight.
If approved, the $800,000 in federal-and-state grant money would pay for shelters to be erect-ed this summer in Fairbanks and North Pole. Another $300,000 is available for the project from an appropriation the assembly made in 2012.
The first five bus shelters would go up along Geist Road, Cushman Street, at the Noel Wien Public
Bills take on wrongful convictionsBy Matt [email protected]
JUNEAU — A local lawmaker intro-duced a pair of bills this week aimed at preventing wrongful convictions and providing compensation for those who are sent to prison but later proved innocent.
Rep. Scott Kawasaki, R-Fairbanks,
introduced bills that deal with eye-witness testimony and provide mon-etary compensation for each year a person is wrongfully incarcerated.
He said the push comes as over-turned wrongful convictions hit a nationwide high this year of 87 individuals. There’s also an high-profile effort in Alaska to exon-erate four young Native men who
were convicted, on what support-ers say was questionable evidence, of the 1997 Fairbanks murder of John Hartman. Kawasaki said the so-called Fairbanks Four case high-lights the problems with the legal system but wasn’t the main driver for his legislation.
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Bound for AfghanistanBy Sam [email protected]
More than 400 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright held their deploy-ment ceremony Wednesday for a nine-month tour of duty in western and southern Afghanistan.
It’s the largest Fort Wainwright deployment since more than 4,000 soldiers of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division deployed for Afghanistan in spring 2011.
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment prepare to case the colors at a deployment ceremony Wednesday at the Fort Wainwright Physical Fitness Center. More than 400 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment begin deploying this month for a nine-month deployment to southern and western Afghanistan. SAM FRIEDMAN/NEWS-MINER
A soldier holds a company flag at the deployment ceremony. SAM FRIEDMAN/NEWS-MINER
More than 400 soldiers deploy
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment stand at attention. SAM FRIEDMAN/NEWS-MINER
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