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• Iditarod bloodlines
  When mushers talk bloodlines, usually dogs are the topic of conversation. But when it comes to the Iditarod, family ties extend to the human side of the race. As long as there has been an Iditarod, there have been three families shaping it, racing it, winning it -- the Redingtons, the Mackeys and the Seaveys.
• Assembly lets IBEW labor deal stand
  The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday planned a new round of public hearings on $20 million in budget cuts proposed for this year's city budget but turned back an effort to rescind its approval last year of a long-term contract with city employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
• Cowdery prosecutors seek year confinement
  Federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked that former State Sen. John Cowdery be sentenced to a year of home confinement and fined $25,000 for conspiring with oil industry executive Bill Allen to bribe another senator.
• Mat-Su Mayor Menard dies after cancer fight
  Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Curt Menard, a political and social presence in the Valley for more than 30 years, died Tuesday of cancer.
• No more wolverine trapping in park, board says
  The Alaska Board of Game voted unanimously Tuesday to ban wolverine trapping in Chugach State Park after the first season of the program caught as many dogs -- two -- as wolverines.
• Gasoline prices in Anchorage Tuesday
  Local stations surveyed
• Tuesday's oil, gas, gold, zinc prices
  North Slope oil: $44.65, up $1.15