Alaska Dispatch News

• New Anchorage school threat, this time on Snapchat, doesn’t specify a facility, ASD says November 19, 2018
  A circulating Snapchat post is “threatening the safety of an unspecified school,” according to a message Monday morning from the Anchorage School District.The Anchorage Police Department is investigating the threat and continuing to work closely with the district, the message says. “We will continue to do everything we can to insure the safety of students […]
• APD: Shooting at Fairview motel leaves woman wounded November 19, 2018
  A woman was shot in the upper body late Sunday in the parking lot of the Black Angus Inn, police say.Dispatchers got a report of shots fired in the 1400 block of Gambell Street just before 11 p.m., according to an Anchorage Police Department update posted Monday morning. Police found evidence of a shooting in […]
• Florida county election supervisor Snipes resigns following chaotic recount November 19, 2018
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- Just hours after finishing a tumultuous election recount, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation, ending a 15-year tenure full of botched elections, legal disputes and blistering criticism."It is true. She did send it," said Burnadette Norris-Weeks, an attorney who works as counsel to the Supervisor of Elections Office.Evelyn […]
• Disowned by her parents for being gay, college athlete can keep running with donations November 19, 2018
  Disowned for being gay, Canisius athlete Emily Scheck will keep running https://t.co/dQCzJilEyh— The Buffalo News (@TheBuffaloNews) November 18, 2018 BUFFALO, New York -- Canisius College sophomore Emily Scheck had just moved back onto campus in August as a cross-country and track athlete when her mother came across photos of Scheck and her girlfriend on a […]
• Anti-vaccination stronghold in North Carolina hit with state’s worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades November 19, 2018
  Chickenpox has taken hold of a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines.Cases of chickenpox have been multiplying at the Asheville Waldorf School, which serves children from nursery school to sixth grade in Asheville, North Carolina. About a dozen infections grew to 28 at the beginning of the month. By […]