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• City Of Tulsa Workers Honored For Service To Community

  16-11-2015 23:35
  
  Tulsa's mayor honored two city employees Monday morning for their service to the community and others for their work for the city.
  
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• Church's Chicken Works To Re-Open Tulsa, OKC Restaurants

  16-11-2015 22:47
  
  Church’s Chicken says it's working to re-open 15 restaurants in Tulsa and Oklahoma City as soon as possible.
  
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• Governor Calls For Obama Administration To Suspend Accepting Syrian Refugees

  16-11-2015 22:46
  
  In wake of deadly terror attacks in Paris being linked to the Islamic State, the governor of Oklahoma is asking the president to suspend accepting Syrian refugees into the United States.
  
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• Lawmakers Want Oklahoma To Refuse To Accept Syrian Refugees

  16-11-2015 22:04
  
  State representatives want Oklahoma to join a handful of other states in refusing to accept Syrian refugees in wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, France.
  
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• Threat Of Severe Weather In Forecast For Eastern Oklahoma

  16-11-2015 21:28
  
  The potential for severe thunderstorms including damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and a small threat for tornadoes is in the forecast for late tonight through early Tuesday morning.
  
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• Bishop Kelley Grad Dallas Keuchel Wins 2015 Warren Spahn Award

  16-11-2015 20:49
  
  Bishop Kelley graduate Dallas Keuchel of the Houston Astros was named the winner of the 2015 Warren Spahn Award.
  
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• Tulsa Man Arrested For Attempted Lewd Molestation

  16-11-2015 19:04
  
  Jenks Police arrested a Tulsa man Sunday on a complaint of attempted lewd acts with a minor.
  
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• Democrats Formalize Plans To Open Primaries To Independents

  16-11-2015 17:38
  
  Registered independents in Oklahoma will be able to vote in Democratic primaries beginning in 2016, including the presidential preferential primary on March 1.
  
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• The Latest: Belgian prosecutors free 5, charge 2 with terror

  16-11-2015 17:17
  
  The Latest: Eiffel Tower to be relit red, white and blue - NewsOn6.com - Tulsa, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports - KOTV.com . A man is detained by a police officer after a raid in the Mirail district in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015.
  
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• Sheriff: Craig County Homicide Suspects In Custody

  16-11-2015 17:16
  
  Craig County Sheriff Jimmy Sooter confirms they have two people in custody in a homicide outside Big Cabin. 
  
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• Obama Said Massive Military Solution Not The Answer To ISIL Threat

  16-11-2015 17:11
  
  President Barack Obama spoke to the media and public Monday morning to stress he believes political and diplomatic solutions are still the country's first choice in dealing with the Syrian conflict. 
  
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• New Official Number Of American Children With Autism Stirs Controversy

  16-11-2015 16:57
  
  Some new government figures on the number of American children with autism has stirred up controversy. They show the numbers are much higher the previously thought.
  
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• Tornado-Damaged Sand Springs Church Celebrates Anniversary

  16-11-2015 15:44
  
  After it was nearly destroyed by a tornado, a church just outside of Sand Springs is reopening its sanctuary in time for its 25th anniversary.
  
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• OHP: Driver May Have Fallen Asleep When Semi Jack-Knifed On Turner Turnpike

  16-11-2015 15:26
  
  All lanes of the Turner Turnpike are back open after a jack-knifed semi-truck closed it down early Monday morning.
  
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• Woman Shot In Back After Leaving Tulsa Bar

  16-11-2015 15:07
  
  Police are looking for the person who shot a woman near a Tulsa bar overnight.  
  
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• Tulsa Man Accused Of Having Sex With Minor

  16-11-2015 14:36
  
  Jenks Police arrested a Tulsa man Sunday on a complaint of lewd acts with a minor.
  
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• OK Mother Uses Social Media To Take On Drug Company's Prices

  16-11-2015 14:27
  
  Playtime for 2-and-a-half-year-old Eli often involves trucks, but he spends a good amount of his day undergoing four breathing treatments and taking five different types of medication.
  
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• Paris Attacks Probe Leads To Cross-Border Raids

  16-11-2015 13:43
  
  France continues to reel from the Paris attacks that left at least 129 people dead, authorities conducted more than 150 police raids across France and also in Belgium overnight and this morning.
  
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• Settlement approved in lawsuit against Tulsa appraisal firm

  16-11-2015 13:17
  
  A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of former residents of the old mining town of Picher against a Tulsa-based appraisal firm involved with the federal buyout of property in the area. The Joplin Globe reports that a judge signed off on the $1.3 million settlement Thursday.
  
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• Hundreds Without Power Across Tulsa County

  16-11-2015 12:29
  
  A power outage has left one midtown Tulsa neighborhood in the dark early Monday.  
  
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• Alan Crone's Weather Blog: Severe Weather Forecast For Eastern Oklahoma

  16-11-2015 12:19
  
  The potential for severe thunderstorms including damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and a small threat for tornadoes will be in the forecast for late tonight through early Tuesday morning across eastern OK as another powerful upper level storm moves near the area.   Showers will be ongoing this morning near northeastern OK.   This activity will not be severe.   We should intermittent showers during the day before severe storms develop across western OK and ar...
  
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• The Latest: Belgium wants better intelligence sharing

  16-11-2015 10:01
  
  PARIS (AP) — The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local):
  
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• Needing 'clean cash,' mobsters hungry for Rome's eateries

  16-11-2015 09:54
  
  ROME (AP) — Gianfranco Romeo sits at a table at his trattoria off the Pantheon, casting scorn over the idea that he's a frontman for a feared mafia clan.
  
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• Names, details of more victims emerge from Paris attacks

  16-11-2015 09:50
  
  A Chilean mother and her daughter, cut down in a concert hall while the daughter's 5-year-old son survived. A young Italian woman, separated from her boyfriend and friends when the concert erupted in
  
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• Google antsy as California slow on self-driving car rules

  16-11-2015 09:42
  
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the Department of Motor Vehicles
  
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• Rare TB case shows diagnosing, treating children is tough

  16-11-2015 09:36
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When a 2-year-old returned sick from a visit to India, U.S. doctors suspected tuberculosis even though standard tests said no. It would take three months to confirm she had an extrem
  
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• A blur of lobbyists as transportation bill takes shape

  16-11-2015 09:34
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is racing toward a Friday deadline to renew the law that pays for national transportation programs, and lobbyists trying to shape the legislation are in a frenzy.
  
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• Clinton, digging at Sanders, says don't scrap health law

  16-11-2015 09:33
  AMES, Iowa (AP) — Fresh from the second Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton has suggested that Bernie Sanders would raise middle-class taxes and "scrap" President Barack Obama's hea
  
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• Paris attacks deepen GOP opposition to Syrian refugee influx

  16-11-2015 09:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly Paris attacks have intensified Republican opposition to letting thousands of Syrian refugees come to the United States.
  
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• Indonesia opens trials of 8 accused of enslaving fishermen

  16-11-2015 09:29
  TUAL, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court opened the trials Monday of three Indonesians and five Thais charged with human trafficking connected with slavery in the seafood industry.
  
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• World leaders pressed for response to Paris attacks

  16-11-2015 09:21
  
  ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Pressed for a strong answer to the Islamic State group's assault on Paris, the world's top industrial and developing nations are set to outline their coordinated response to wha
  
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• UAE takes 5 Yemeni prisoners freed by US from Guantanamo

  16-11-2015 09:18
  MIAMI (AP) — Five men who have been held for more than 13 years at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and sent to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said Sunday.
  
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• US startup challenges Japan to giant robot battle

  16-11-2015 09:08
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — They've been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven't left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change.
  
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• Dr. Monte Harrel of Harrel Eyecare Centers Speaks at Oklahoma...

  16-11-2015 09:08
  
  Dr. Monte Harrel, optometrist and founder of Harrel Eyecare Centers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently spoke at the Oklahoma Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference. The conference, which took place on September 25th, discussed new research on tools available to help people recovering from recent injury or improve learning and the benefits of vision care for many local area residents.
  
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• 2 sheriff's deputies seen in beating video put on leave

  16-11-2015 08:36
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two Northern California sheriff's deputies seen repeatedly beating a suspected car thief in a video were placed on paid administrative leave on Sunday.
  
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• Official: 2 Palestinians killed in clash with Israeli troops

  16-11-2015 07:25
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian health official says two Palestinians have been killed and three have been wounded in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank.
  
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• Stillwater police investigating after man fatally stabbed, friend arrested

  16-11-2015 07:01
  Stillwater police say an argument between friends apparently led to a fatal stabbing. Officers responded to an ambulance assistance call in the 100 block of West Tyler Avenue shortly after 8:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a release from police Capt. Kyle Gibbs. They found William W. Rivers, 31, of Stillwater, who had a stab wound to his upper left chest, Gibbs states.
  
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• Man accused of killing wife dies in hospital of self-inflicted gunshot wound, police report

  16-11-2015 07:01
  
  Derrick Wills Todd, 52, was pronounced dead on at 6:42 a.m. Saturday at a local hospital, according to Homicide Sgt. Dave Walker.
  
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• World War II veterans remember: Arthur Bonifazi fought with the 94th Infantry Division in Europe

  16-11-2015 07:00
  
  Bonifazi, 91, welcomed the Tulsa World to his home recently to revisit his days as a patrol leader in WWII.
  
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• Theologians: Extremism, not individual religions, breeds terror

  16-11-2015 07:00
  
  Three theologians fought misconceptions about Islam in the wake of recent terrorist attacks and advocated for interfaith fellowship during a presentation at Tulsa Community College’s Southeast campus.
  
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• Syrian legislator praises aspects of plan to end war

  16-11-2015 07:00
  A Syrian legislator praised parts of an international plan for ending Syria’s conflict on Sunday, saying elements of it are similar to those of President Bashar Assad’s government even as an opposition figure said all regional and world powers appear to be convinced that Assad must go.
  
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• Paris attacks signal move toward more global IS strategy

  16-11-2015 07:00
  
  As the deadly attacks in Paris made horrifically clear, the Islamic State group is determined to establish itself as the dominant jihadist movement capable of operating far beyond the limits of its self-declared “caliphate.”
  
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• Myanmar president says transition of power will be smooth

  16-11-2015 07:00
  
  Myanmar’s president vowed Sunday to abide by the law to ensure a smooth transition to a new government next year, after his ruling party was trounced in the Nov. 8 general election.
  
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• Hillary Clinton goes after Bernie Sanders on taxes, health care

  16-11-2015 07:00
  
  Fresh from the second Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Bernie Sanders would raise middle-class taxes and “scrap” President Barack Obama’s health care law, in an escalating critique of the Vermont senator.
  
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• France bombs Islamic State HQ, hunts attacker who got away

  16-11-2015 07:00
  
  France launched “massive” air strikes on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria on Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.
  
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• After Paris attacks, Hollywood tones down glitz

  16-11-2015 07:00
  NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris, the entertainment world is toning down the glitz and scaling back on some of its most-anticipated red-carpet celebrations.
  
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• Flash Flooding Possible Across Eastern Oklahoma In Wet Start To Week

  16-11-2015 06:13
  
  Occasional rain showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected on Sunday night, and it likely will stretch into rain showers across parts of Green Country on Monday and Tuesday.
  
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• Tulsa Panel Asks 'Should We Fear Islam?'

  16-11-2015 04:23
  
  Speakers from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities spoke about  the emergence of extremism among some Muslims and fear of the Islamic faith.
  
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• Church Renovates After Sand Springs Tornado

  16-11-2015 03:59
  
  After it was nearly destroyed by a tornado, a church just outside of Sand Springs is reopening its sanctuary in time for its 25th anniversary.
  
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• 43-Year-Old Tova The Elephant Dies At Tulsa Zoo

  16-11-2015 02:41
  
  Experts from the "Center for Elephant Conservation" came to try and help find what caused the symptoms. Despite that, Tova was euthanized to end her suffering.
  
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