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Tonight on News 13, a stabbing attack lands a Fairbanks man in the hospital.
And missing UAA student Chandler Braley is found dead.
We'll have those stories and more, plus Sid's wide bomb with sports and Crystal B joins us with weather.
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Leading our newscast tonight, Fairbanks Police responded last night to the corner of Adams Drive and Washington Drive for a report of a man lying in the snow, bleeding shortly after 7 p.m.
FPD said the man had been stabbed multiple times and transported to the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
Officials believe the stabbing occurred between two brothers, the victim William Barron and the alleged suspect Brandon Barron.
Detectives are searching for Brandon Barron to question him about the incident.
If you have any information about this crime or know the whereabouts of Brandon Barron, contact the Fairbanks Police Department.
A sad ending to the story we brought you earlier this week.
The body of missing University of Alaska Anchorage student Chandler Braley has been found.
The former Fairbanks resident was last seen by his roommate on the 16th of January in Anchorage.
Alaska State Troopers and Forest Service personnel had launched a search of the Stepkick Mountain, an area where Braley's car was found.
The area is at about mile 72 of the Seward Highway.
Troopers say they found the body approximately a quarter mile from the road.
Evidence at the scene indicates Braley committed suicide.
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens says there is no need for earmark reform.
What is needed, the Senator says, is a better public understanding of how the process works.
Stevens made his statements yesterday in reaction to President Bush mentioning earmark reform in his State of the Union speech.
This week, politicians are increasingly demanding changes in the way lawmakers add projects to national spending bills to benefit their home states.
Stevens has been particularly good at earmarking billions of dollars for Alaska.
In his speech, Bush called for a line item veto to fix the problem.
Stevens says it is Congress's job to write the spending bills.
He says a line item veto by the President would be unconstitutional.
The Fairbanks International Airport is going to be getting a makeover.
The part of the terminal slated for demolition was built in 1952 and 1969.
A two-year study says that part of the terminal is inefficiently designed, poorly insulated and dirty.
Most of the existing airport terminal is out of compliance with life and fire safety requirements.
Officials say much of it would be significantly damaged in the event of a moderate earthquake.
Fairbanks International currently has four functioning gates, and the goal is to increase that number to six by the end of construction.
Much of the past year has been devoted to design of the new terminal,
and as airport manager Jesse VanderZenden says, citizens can expect to see changes being made as early as this summer.
We're almost finished with 35 percent design.
So in essence, next summer what you can expect is some site preparation work and then site prep just getting ready for the construction.
And then we'll begin to do construction in earnest the following year or so.
And we're going to be having some more public meetings on this to let folks know this is what's going on, this is what you can expect and so on and so forth.
We don't want to catch anybody off guard, but we also want to make sure that what we give to the public is accurate too.
The Fairbanks Boys and Girls Club will hold its 14th annual Have a Heart Auction this Saturday.
The auction is the center's largest and most successful fundraiser of the year.
Last year's auction raised over $45,000 for the Boys and Girls Club here in Fairbanks.
All of the proceeds from this year's auction will be used to help pay for operating costs at the club, as well as to help fund new programs.
Items to be auctioned off include a new car, cruises, as well as many home essential products.
Individual tickets for the event are still available at the door and for the larger group of people, tables that seat 10 or 10 are available as well.
As Debbie Chapman of the Boys and Girls Club stated, this event is more than just an auction.
The evening starts at 6 o'clock with a champagne reception that's being sponsored by Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
And we have a string quartet that will be playing during that time.
Our silent auction tables will open. Dinner is served at 7 o'clock.
And this year we have an award that will be given out to Cory Borgeson as our Golden Heart for Youth Award.
He's been one of our board members for the last 10 years and a very integral part of this organization.
So we're glad to honor him.
Coming up after the break, a petroleum tanker being loaded with fuel runs aground and leaps into Cook Inlet.
And Bowl for Kids' Sake is this weekend. We'll be back in 90 seconds.
What does bowling and being a great role model have in common?
Well this weekend you can find out by joining Big Brothers Big Sisters during their annual Bowl for Kids' Sake 2006.
For the last 18 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has been a strong force in our community, helping kids achieve goals while having a mentor to share them with.
This Saturday at 11 a.m. at Nugget Lanes on Fort Wainwright and Sunday at 11 a.m. at Arctic Bowl.
While having fun bowling down the lanes, you can also donate to a great cause.
The money raised through Bowl for Kids' Sake directly supports the Big Brothers Big Sisters programs here in the Fairbanks area.
Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters, Taber Raybaum, explains how you can join in on the fun and donate to the cause.
Basically folks get pledges from their co-workers, their family members, neighbors, strangers on the street.
And we even have an easier way to get pledges this year.
We have a wonderful website that people can set up their own donation page.
Such an important fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters because it's money we can use for our really basic needs as an agency.
And the biggest need we have is to serve more kids.
We've been wonderfully successful at serving kids and we've grown tremendously in the last few years.
But we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the need that exists here in the community.
The Coast Guard says a petroleum tanker was being loaded with fuel when it broke free of the dock in Nekiski this morning and ran aground.
The 575-foot Seabulk Pride was moored in Nekiski on the Kenai Peninsula overnight when the mishap occurred.
Petty Officer Steve Harrison with the Coast Guard's Command Center in Juneau says tugs are being sent to help the stranded tanker.
Sarah Simpson, a spokeswoman for Tesoro in San Antonio, says the tanker was being loaded with fuel from the Nekiski Tesoro refinery when it was hit by an ice flow and broke free.
Simpson says that some fuel has leaked into Cook Inlet, but the amount is not known.
There were no reports of injuries.
An anti-trafficking bill has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Under House Bill 148, a person commits the crime of trafficking of persons if they recruit, harbor, transport, provide or obtain by any means another person.
Knowing that force, fraud or coercion will be used to cause the person to engage in forced labor, sexual conduct or involuntary servitude.
The law means traffickers can be prosecuted on both state and federal levels.
The U.S. Senate State Department estimates that between 600 and 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders every year.
Traffickers lure victims to other countries with the promise of a better life and good paying jobs.
However, once traffickers have them under their control, victims are subjected to forced labor, sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude.
The bill now moves to the Senate Finance Committee.
Dogs are being credited with waking their owner during a house fire.
Early this morning in Kodiak, the lone occupant of the house was awakened by her barking dogs just after two this morning.
The unidentified woman was able to escape the house through thick smoke and called 911.
Officials say she was treated for smoke inhalation at a local hospital.
Firefighters quickly extinguished a small electrical fire in the bedroom, but not before it caused about $25,000 in damage.
Officials say there was no working smoke detectors in the home.
At a local restaurant here in Fairbanks, you can grab a bite to eat, quench your thirst and give back to your community all in one sitting.
Through this Valentine's season, Boston's Gourmet Pizza is giving pizza lovers a chance to show some heart while wooing their Valentine with a heart-shaped pizza.
This will also benefit the Fairbanks Community Food Bank.
For many years, the Boston's Gourmet Pizza in Anchorage has donated to local charities.
The Boston's here in Fairbanks opened a year and a half ago, and this will be their first year donating during the month of February.
For every pizza sold, Boston's will donate $1 to the Fairbanks Community Food Bank through February 14th.
Owner and general manager Lori Meltvitt explains why she donates and how many of Boston's customers have responded to this community need.
I try to donate to as much as I can around town.
I've actually been here since 85, so I know kind of what people need.
It actually makes me feel really good to donate to the Fairbanks Food Bank or all the other charities that I also donate to.
Oh, very good. When you mention the food bank, they definitely, that's something that everybody likes to donate to.
A house explodes in Virginia. A bomb tests a security system in Colorado.
A famous printing, painting that is, on the block in New York.
This and more as Fox's Shepard Smith takes us across America.
Virginia, a house explosion causing massive damage in Stevens City. The homeowner surviving and receiving treatment for burns.
Building inspectors say the explosion damaged 68 other homes in the area, leaving 11 of them uninhabitable.
The cause under investigation.
Colorado, it's the only way to test a video surveillance system that's supposed to survive an explosion.
The manufacturer says a system like this can still provide evidence of what happened right up until the detonation, giving police another tool against terrorism.
New York, a Vincent van Gogh portrait going on the auction block in May.
LaRussean Madame Jeannot painted just five months before the artist died in 1890.
The folks at Christie's Auction House expected to sell between 40 and 60 million dollars.
Minnesota, the winning team in the John Bear Grease sled dog race.
The team covered the 373 mile course in 32 hours 40 minutes.
That's not counting numerous rest stops.
The race named after an Ojibwean man who delivered mail to isolated villages along the Lake Superior shoreline in the late 1800s.
Across America.
Well, it's Thursday and we all know what time that is.
We do? What does that mean? What time is it?
Well, what Mr. Driscoll is referring to, of course, is our Plays of the Week. Highly anticipated.
By whom?
Actually, a lot of high school students that come up to me and say, hey man, how come I didn't make it? So I think it's catching on.
Does it make a sensation of sweeping the nation?
I wouldn't go that far.
But does it include you guys bowling last night?
No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't.
Anyway, stick around. Sports is coming up next.
Yesterday, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Athletic Department learned that Leonard W. Brum Jr. lost his battle with cancer.
From 1951 to 1953, Brum served as UAF Athletic Director, hockey and basketball coach.
He passed away January 17th in Racine, Wisconsin.
Oakey, as he was known by his friends, was a mover and a shaker.
He took the Nanooks basketball team to the lower 48 for the first time.
He also built an outdoor ice rink, a ski jump at Chena Ridge and a swimming pool.
Brum was quoted as saying, the university bought me out of my contract because they couldn't keep up with me.
As Athletics and Recreation Director at a maximum security facility in Michigan,
he arranged an exhibition game between the Gordie Howell-led Detroit Red Wings and a team of inmates in the middle of an NHL season.
Brum was present at last summer's UAF Hockey Alumni Reunion.
Leonard Brum is survived by his wife of 56 years, Francis, six children and seven grandchildren.
Well, and a couple of high school basketball scores from Eielson last night.
The Ravens hosted Hutchison in the girls' game.
The Hawks survived a fourth quarter comeback, improving to 9-4 with a 57-50 win in overtime.
Flip the script in the boys' game.
It was Hutchison who fell short on the comeback bid.
The Hawks were down 9-1 halftime, took the lead in the third, but Eielson rallied to win it by 7 and improved to 12-2 on the season.
The Eielson boys are the number three ranked 3A team in Alaska by the Alaska Sportswriters' Poll.
And now the moment we've all been waiting for.
Remember, we go Thursday nights to Wednesday nights.
It's time for Plays of the Week.
Here they go.
Play number five, Kelly Chewy with the wicked slapper.
You bet it's in the net.
Chewy's third of the season was the Nantuck's lone goal and Friday night's 4-1 loss to Nebraska-Omaha.
I love play number four, Latham freshman goalie, Patrick Brady,
doing what he gets paid to do even though West Valley won it 3-2 last Thursday night.
Delta Junctions' Chad Bunselmeyer making a cameo at number three,
a buzzer-beating long-range three-pointer part of a 28-point effort and a loss to Monroe.
Number two, John Favell had two assists and seven goals.
This one made it 7-4 as Favell and the Patriots beat Latham 11-7 to qualify for the state playoffs for the first time.
And in the second half, the Nantuck's beat Anchorage by three last Saturday.
Go full speed and you just might find yourself on next week's Plays of the Week.
It's always a great day in sports.
I'm Sid Zweigbaum.
Crystal Beal will be right back with tonight's weather.
In 2003, Papa Murphy's was voted best pizza chain in America.
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That is what Clymer Holland Davis offers you for tax preparation.
With over 25 years in Fairbanks, you can trust us to take care of your tax needs.
Box 7 and CBS 13 are proud to announce Caleb Severns of Lathrop High School
as this month's Interior Alaska Orthopedic and Sports Medicine High School Athlete of the Month.
Caleb has excelled in track and swimming,
racking up numerous state titles throughout his high school career.
In his free time, he worked with youth and organizations to help improve the Fairbanks community.
The Interior Alaska Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Athlete of the Month Award
is a recognition of our top local high school students who have excelled both academically and athletically.
Dr. Wade is pleased to honor Caleb for his commitment to excellence.
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Good evening, I'm Crystal B. here with your News 13 weather for this Thursday, February 2nd.
We start off with a look at our satellite radar up at Pedro Dome.
You can see the interior is staying pretty calm in the foreign moisture right now.
We did get some flurries last night, but not any looking like today.
And for the satellite radar for the state, like last week and all of this week,
we're still getting that snow right down by Anchorage and Juneau,
getting hit with some heavy snow there for a while.
Rest of the state just staying cold with some light cloud coverage.
And now for the jet stream, it did move up a little bit, slowly warming up, more and more of Alaska.
The very tip here still staying in that Arctic cold temperatures.
And now for the highs for today, the cold spot today was at McGrath with 34 below.
Fairbanks topped out to 21 below.
Warrens slot was at Juneau with 37 degrees, 15 degrees in Kodiak, 4 degrees in Anchorage,
25 below in Barrow, and 15 below in Nome.
And now for the next 24-hour surface model.
Now right now that high pressure is keeping it pretty calm in the interior.
Low pressure is going to be pushing it out, bringing some snow flurries along with it.
And also low pressure is going to be moving out of the south, bringing that snow out of Juneau area.
And as we take a look at the slower 48s, now we do have some rain happening right in Northern California
and Oregon area, but the big weather action happening right now is right between the slight cover.
We have a lot of heavy rain and stormy conditions happening right in the southeast.
A lot of weather happening there.
Now for the surface model, that low pressure is going to be bringing that rain and moving it up to the northeast area.
High pressure also warming up the east coast and most of the states as well.
And now as we take a look at the temperatures for tomorrow, we have 40s up by Seattle,
60s over by LA, 40s up by New York, 70s down by Miami, 40s over by Denver, and about 60s over by Atlanta.
And now for your Fairbanks and Facinity forecast for this evening.
We have mostly clear with some patchy ice fog, lows looking about 35 to 45 below.
Looks like another chilly night with some light winds.
And for tomorrow we have increasing clouds, which means it's going to be warming up a little bit.
Temperatures looking around about 10 below, again with some light winds.
And now for your five-day forecast.
Now for tomorrow, it's going to be partly cloudy throughout the week.
Like I said, tomorrow it's going to be about 1 below, 10 below, starting to warm up,
hopefully getting above zero coming towards next week.
Everyone's looking forward to that, I'm sure.
Lows are about 40 below tomorrow, hopefully warming up again to about 15 below coming towards next week.
And that looks like I'll do it for Weather this evening.
I'm Crystal B., and stay tuned for your new 13 Recap.
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Recapping today's top stories, last night Fairbanks police responded to a call and found a man bleeding in the snow.
He had been stabbed, allegedly, by his brother.
Missing UAA student Chandler Braley has been found dead.
He was found in a wooded area off the Seward Highway.
Senator Ted Stevens says there was no need for earmark reform.
Stevens has been particularly good at earmarking money for Alaska.
He made the statement in response to President Bush's State of the Union address.
Tomorrow on News 13, Lathrop High School hosts a 50th anniversary Constitution Roundtable.
And Eric Zorn brings us his movie review.
That's a look at today's news. I'm Will Driscoll.
And I'm Bill Burrows.
For all of us here at News 13, thanks for watching.
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