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UAA selects Stockton Thunder coach to lead Seawolves hockey

Stockton Thunder's head coach Matt Thomas watches his team against Alaska Aces' in the first period at Stockton Arena, 3/4/12.

Matt Thomas, who guided the Stockton Thunder to their first appearance in the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals this spring, has been named the fifth hockey head coach in UAA history. 2 hours ago

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ANCHORAGE

Ice dam break suspected as cause of Rabbit Creek flooding

Rabbit Creek jumped its banks Friday morning on the Anchorage Hillside, washing over a bridge and prompting police to knock on doors asking people inside to evacuate.
STATE NEWS

Bus driver hauling cruise ship passengers arrested for DUI

The driver of a bus transferring cruise ship passengers between Seward and Anchorage was arrested Friday after numerous passengers called to report he was highly intoxicated and driving erratically, state troopers said.
STATE NEWS

Katie John, who sued state, US over Native subsistence rights, dies

Athabascan elder Katie John of Mentasta Lake, the lead plaintiff in a well-known 1985 lawsuit that strengthened Native subsistence fishing rights in Alaska, died early Friday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
STATE NEWS

National Guard rescue plane lands in Galena as flooding continues

A National Guard HC-130 plane was able to land at the Galena airport at about 4 p.m., where the landing strip is “high and dry” despite major flooding in the village, state officials say.
CRIME

Man charged with killing elderly couple, assaulting toddler in random attack

Police say a registered sex offender entered a Mountain View apartment through an unlocked window, killed an elderly couple and sexually assaulted their 2-year-old great-granddaughter in an apparently random attack Saturday.
CRIME

Trooper shoots, kills Sutton man in standoff over restraining order

An Alaska State Trooper shot and killed Theodule LeJeune, 58, who fired a gun at troopers Thursday after refusing for two days to abide by a restraining order that said he had to leave his home, troopers said in a written statement Friday.
ENTERTAINMENT UPDATE

Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports

Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February.
STATE NEWS

Ex-Pennsylvania judge hired in Alaska charged with stealing cocaine from criminal evidence

A western Pennsylvania judge who abruptly resigned last year and was hired by the state of Alaska was charged Thursday with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases before him.
ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY

City rejects a proposed referendum that would repeal just-passed labor law

The city has rejected a proposed referendum petition to repeal AO 37, the ordinance passed in March that rewrites city labor law.
STATE NEWS

9-year-old lost in hole and feared dead after snowmachining near Arctic Man

The body of a 9-year-old Fairbanks boy has been recovered from a glacier crevasse. He was snowmachining with relatives near the Arctic Man event Saturday afternoon fell into a hole estimated to be 150 feet deep, Alaska State Troopers said.