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NOTN- After social media posts have circulated claiming 7 ICE agents checked into hotels in downtown Juneau, Mayor Beth Weldon joined KINY to discuss some of those rumors.
“So far, we haven’t been able to substantiate any of those rumors,” She said, “so, no presence or activity that we are aware of, however, maybe this is where the rumors are coming from, TSA is in town, and they will have a visual intermodal Presence Prevention and Response Team present.”
TSA will be conducting high visibility patrols on cruise ship docks, and they’ll be doing that all this week.
“So if you see lots of uniforms down there, that’s what’s happening.” Said Mayor Weldon “it’s no concern. It’s an annual activity. CBJ is not involved, and we’ve been doing this since 2021.”
While ICE agents may not be in the Capital, recently, the Alaska Department of Corrections has been holding dozens of immigration detainees in Anchorage under conditions that violate federal standards for humane treatment, according to Alaska Public Media, three immigration lawyers said the men were denied phone access to their attorneys and consulates, held in lockdown for long periods and, in one incident, subjected to pepper spray.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is playing a key role in the Trump administration’s plans to crack down on illegal immigration.
ICE teams are continuing to carry out enforcement operations. And officials have said targeting criminals is a priority, but a key issue to watch is how the term “criminal” is defined. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the administration sees all undocumented immigrants as criminals.
AP- Alaska Airlines has resumed operations after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its flights for approximately three hours, but the effects will linger into Monday, the company announced.
The carrier issued a system-wide ground stop for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights around 8 p.m. Pacific time Sunday. The stop was lifted at 11 p.m., the Seattle-based company said in a social media post. More than 150 flights have been canceled since Sunday evening, including 64 Monday.
The airline said “a critical piece of multi-redundant hardware at our data centers, manufactured by a third-party, experienced an unexpected failure.” That affected several of the airlines key systems, but hacking was not involved, and the airline said the incident was not related to any other events like the attack involving Microsoft’s servers over the weekend or the recent cybersecurity event at its Hawaiian Airlines subsidiary in June.
“We appreciate the patience of our guests whose travel plans have been disrupted. We’re working to get them to their destinations as quickly as we can,” the airline said in a statement.
The airline also said it is working with its vendor to replace the hardware at the data center.
Alaska Airlines led all airlines in cancellations Monday, according to the FlightAware website. Many of the cancellations were at the airline’s major hub of Seattle, but it also canceled flights at airports all over the country.
The Federal Aviation Administration website had confirmed a ground stop for all Alaska Airlines mainline and Horizon aircraft, referring to an Alaska Airlines subsidiary. But the FAA referred all questions to the airline Monday.
The National Transportation Board last month credited the crew of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 with the survival of passengers when a door plug panel flew off the plane shortly after takeoff on Jan. 5, 2024, leaving a hole that sucked objects out of the cabin.
In September, Alaska Airlines said it grounded its flights in Seattle briefly due to “significant disruptions” from an unspecified technology problem that was resolved within hours.
NOTN- Scientists in Sitka Sound observed a Bowhead whale, a first for Southeast Alaska, and only the second documented sighting in the eastern North Pacific.
Bowhead whales are one of the few whale species that reside almost exclusively in Arctic and subarctic waters experiencing seasonal sea ice coverage,.
Of all large whales, the bowhead is the most adapted to life in icy water. Adaptations to this environment include an insulating layer of blubber that can be up to 1.6 feet thick.
according to a scientific paper released by NOAA, the crew was using a 25-foot motorboat in Sitka Sound to photograph and identify humpback whales that had been observed bubble-net feeding in the area. Humpback whales are often present in large numbers in Sitka Sound in March, feeding on pre-spawn herring.
They also spotted gray whales, likely feeding on herring eggs near shore. After identifying several humpback whales in smaller groups, the crew was heading back to Sitka when they spotted another whale.
The vessel slowed to photograph this whale, but it didn’t appear to be a humpback. The whale was small, visible only by its head and jaw, which had a distinct arch. The crew took two photos before the whale submerged.
according to NOAA, the whale, identified by experts through photographs, exhibited unusual behavior. It was only observed with its head and jaw visible as it surfaced to breathe. Over the next month, additional sightings of the whale were reported. No feeding or social behaviors were noted, and on only one occasion was the back—which lacked a dorsal fin—visible.
“This sighting is important because it is a first for a pretty big region,” said Ellen Chenoweth, lead author on the study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “This is the first documented sighting of a bowhead whale in Southeast Alaska. It’s not the furthest south they have been seen, but it’s very notable because of how far it is from its typical range. It raises a lot of questions about what was going on with this animal that we can’t answer.”
NOAA researchers say this rare visit may be linked to ecosystem shifts like sea ice loss, which could push more Arctic species farther south.
“We know of only two previous observations of bowhead whales in the North Pacific,” said Kim Shelden. “In 1969, a subadult male bowhead whale was captured and died in Osaka Bay, Japan. In 2016, a young bowhead whale was photographed skim feeding near British Columbia, Canada. This specific bowhead whale sighting in March 2024 may be an indicator of rapid changes occurring in the Arctic,” said Shelden.
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Very sad news this weekend out of the world of daytime television:
Eileen Fulton, an iconic actress best known for playing the role of Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns for nearly five decades, passed away in her hometown of Asheville, North Carolina on July 14.
She was 91 years old.
According to an obituary from Groce Funeral Home, Fulton died “after a period of declining health.”
Due to her advanced age, we may never learn the exact cause of death.
Fulton was married three times throughout her life.
She originally joined As the World Turns in 1960 as Lisa Grimaldi — in what was originally supposed to be a short-term role for actress Lois Smith.
However, when Smith became unavailable, Fulton was cast instead … and ended up staying on the CBS daytime soap for more than 1,800 episodes over 50 years.
“I had a lot of experience being conniving as a minister’s daughter,” Fulton told NPR in 2010. “I found the people in my daddy’s church fascinating. When I went up for Lisa, [the character] was just a nice girl next door. And just for the summer, for Bob’s interest. I didn’t want to play anything so close to myself. So I decided to just give her a background.”
Fulton went on to joke about being a “classic daytime meanie” who had “four husbands and one phantom fetus,” adding to NPR of viewer reaction:
“They hated her — and I thought it was fabulous.
“Once, she told the outlet, a woman even hit her in the middle of a department store.
“And people looked at me like I was rotten and this woman was a heroine. But I thought, you know what? I’ve reached them.”
By the mid 1960s, Fulton’s career was on fire.
She starred in Broadway’s original production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks at the same time as she was filming As the World Turns.
Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and earned a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
She remained a cast member on As the World Turns until its cancellation in 2010.
Aside from her incredible soap opera run, Fulton had a minor role in the 1960 drama Girl of the Night and also appeared in the short-lived prime time spinoff of As the World Turns, Our Private World.
The actress — whose funeral service will be held on August 9 — is survived by her brother, Charles McLarty (her second brother James died before her) and sister-in-law Chris McLarty and niece.
May she rest in peace.
Eileen Fulton, As the World Turns Legend, Dead at 91 was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Dog the Bounty Hunter is in dire need of your thoughts and prayers.
On Sunday, we learned that the reality star’s stepson, Gregory Zecca, shot and killed his own 13-year old son, Anthony, in an incident that took place at their apartment in Naples, Florida.
TMZ was the first outlet to break this terrible news.
Police confirmed to the celebrity gossip website that they responded to a call about a shooting around 8 p.m. local time on July 19.
Authorities referred to the tragedy an “isolated incident” and said they have not made any arrests. We can’t say for certain at this time if any are forthcoming.
Dog (real name: Duane Chapman) and his wife, Francie Chapman — who is Zecca’s mother — told TMZ, through a representative:
“We are grieving as a family over this incomprehensible, tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the loss of our beloved grandson, Anthony.”
Francie shares Gregory with her late husband.
She got married to Chapman in 2021 after bonding over the grief of losing both of their partners to cancer, as the latter proposed to Francie just 10 months after the death of his fifth spouse, Beth.
“For a living, she’s a rancher and she recently lost her husband to cancer six months before I lost Beth Chapman so we hopped on the phone, started talking to each other, crying and consoling each other and then one thing led to another and it’s just incredible that I’ve been able to meet someone like her,” Dog shared on TMZ Live in May 2020.
“With Francie, I’m allowed to speak about Beth, we speak about her husband. We cry. We hold each other.”
Zecca, meanwhile, works with Dog on his bounty hunting team alongside Duane’s daughter, Lyssa.
Chapman is a father to 13 children total.
He shares son Christopher with Debbie White; sons Duane Lee II and Leeland with ex-wife Fonda Sue Darnell; and sons Wesley, James Robert and the late Zebadiah with ex-wife Anne Tegnell.
He is also a dad to Tucker, Lyssa and the late Barbara with ex-wife Lyssa Rae Brittain; and he shared daughters Bonnie and Cecily and son Garry with late wife Beth.
The small screen star also revealed in 2023 that he recently discovered that he fathered a son named Jon.
“As far as my gene pool, I think she would approve,” Dog said five years ago of how Beth would feel about him moving on to Francie.
“I didn’t have ranchers in my gene pool. I don’t know if Beth even knows. She’s kicking around with the angels. She’s all happy. I don’t know if she knows.”
Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Grandson Killed by Own Father in Horrible Accident was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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