Archives for April 4, 2014

The group Great Alaska Schools took to the steps of the Capitol on Friday to demand an increase in the state’s education funding formula.

Monday at 3 on KTOO-FM on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts. We’ll talk with Jill Ramiel about the Downtown Business Association; Lauree Morton, the Executive Director of the Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, will be here with the details about Sexual Assault Awareness Month; We’ll get a preview of the Alaska Folk…

New opinion about Lorraine Morin’s injuries unfairly introduced during Robert Kowalski’s homicide trial

The official death toll from last month’s landslide in Washington state has risen to 30, according to local officials, with more than a dozen still listed as missing.

A Senate panel voted on Thursday to declassify a controversial report on the interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the presidency of George W. Bush.

On April 13, Eaglecrest Ski Patrol and other skiers will take a memorial run for longtime ski patrol members Bob Janes and Ron Dippold, who have died.

Ukraine’s interim government on Thursday issued a report that accuses ousted President Viktor Yanukovych of ordering police snipers to fire on protesters during anti-government demonstrations, a day after the former leader denied the charge.

“A veteran Associated Press photographer was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan,” the wire service reports.

The funding of a social media platform designed to undermine the Cuban government was not a covert American operation, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during his regular press briefing on Thursday.

Stories are emerging about the harrowing minutes on the post Wednesday and what are being described as the heroic actions of the military police officer who confronted the gunman.