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• Oklahomans Donate Tax Cut To Education

  11-01-2016 23:57
  
  At the beginning of this month, a tax cut went into effect for most Oklahomans. But some are upset that legislators are moving forward with a tax break, while education faces huge cuts. So they’re asking you to donate your tax cut to a school.
  
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• Tickets on sale Thursday to Billy Currington's spring show at Hard Rock Tulsa

  11-01-2016 23:54
  
  Billy Currington is bringing his smooth, distinct voice to Oklahoma for a March 3 show at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa, 770 W Cherokee Street. The country hit-maker known for songs such as "People Are Crazy," "Must Be Doin' Something Right," "Let Me Down Easy" and "We Are Tonight" released his sixth album "Summer Forever" in June 2015.
  
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• Number of public school students increases in Oklahoma

  11-01-2016 23:54
  
  The Oklahoma State Department of Education is reporting an increase in the number of public school students in the state. The department announced Monday that the number of students at the start of the current school year was 692,670 - an increase of 4,370 from the year before and up by 33,055 from 2010.
  
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• Guilty Pleas In Death Of 7-Month-Old In Filthy Rogers County Trailer

  11-01-2016 23:24
  
  A Rogers County couple pleaded guilty to child neglect in the death of their 7-month-old son.  
  
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• Tulsa Judge Dismisses Murder Charge In 7-Year-Old Case

  11-01-2016 23:08
  
  A judge dismissed charges in a 7-year-old murder case Monday. The district attorney said there isn't enough evidence, right now, in the case.
  
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• Chili Bowl Racers Take To Track For Practice Day

  11-01-2016 22:37
  
  One day after crews loaded cars and equipment into the Expo Center for this year’s Chili Bowl, more than 300 drivers are getting a feel for the track.
  
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• Dramatic Rescue Near Top Of Texas' Tallest Building

  11-01-2016 21:34
  
  Houston firefighters have rescued two window washers whose cleaning rig became disabled and dangled precariously near the top of the city's highest skyscraper. 
  
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• Police Seek To Identify Tulsa Armed Robber

  11-01-2016 21:23
  
  Tulsa Police investigators want to identify a man they say robbed a QuikTrip in the 10200 block of East 31st Street earlier this month.
  
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• Police Investigate Armed Robbery Of Owasso Sporting Goods Store

  11-01-2016 21:08
  
  Two men used a handgun to rob a sporting goods store in Owasso Saturday.
  
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• Adult Victims Identified In Mayes County Crash That Killed Six

  11-01-2016 18:36
  
  The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says six people killed in a head-on crash in Mayes County late Friday were all from Kansas City, Missouri.
  
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• Trial Delayed In Murder Of LeFlore County Woman

  11-01-2016 18:29
  
  Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the trial for an Arkansas man accused in the 2010 slaying of a 22-year-old woman whose body was found in an eastern Oklahoma pond.
  
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• Lion Gets Wellness Exam At OKC Zoo

  11-01-2016 18:19
  
  Hubert, a 4-year-old male lion at the Oklahoma City Zoo, underwent a wellness exam Monday morning. 
  
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• Jury Selection Begins In LeFlore County Murder Trial

  11-01-2016 17:46
  
  Jury selection begins in the trial for an Arkansas man accused in the 2010 slaying of a 22-year-old woman whose body was found in an eastern Oklahoma pond.
  
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• Plane Makes Emergency Landing In East Tulsa Field

  11-01-2016 17:45
  
  An airplane made an emergency landing in a field in east Tulsa Monday morning.
  
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• Rock Legend Robert Plant To Perform At Cain's Ballroom In Tulsa

  11-01-2016 16:57
  
  Robert Plant, best known as the lead singer of the band Led Zeppelin, is scheduled to perform in Tulsa in March.
  
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• Man Arrested In Murder Of Estranged Wife In Taloga

  11-01-2016 16:10
  
  A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the murder of his estranged wife inside her home in Taloga, Oklahoma.
  
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• Two Injured In Three-Vehicle Tulsa Crash

  11-01-2016 15:58
  
  A three-vehicle crash on North Lewis sent two people to the hospital Monday morning.
  
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• Emergency Tulsa Fire Shelter Evacuated Over Gas Odor

  11-01-2016 15:24
  
  Tulsa firefighters briefly evacuated a Red Cross emergency shelter early Monday which had been set up for victims of an apartment complex fire on Sunday. 
  
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• Powerball Jackpot To Hit Estimated $1.3B -- A World Record

  11-01-2016 15:11
  
  Twenty-five lucky people walked away with a nice consolation prize of $1 million Saturday, but the big Powerball payout is still up for grabs. 
  
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• Police: Teenage Girls Punch Driver, Steal Her SUV At Tulsa Church

  11-01-2016 15:05
  
  Police arrested two teenage girls they say punched a woman in the face at a Tulsa church parking lot and took her SUV.  
  
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• TPD officer injured during foot chase for armed suspect

  11-01-2016 14:22
  
  The officer injured her ankle while chasing 28-year old Donnell Foster through a creek bed near 15th and Memorial just before midnight Monday morning. "The officers chased him.
  
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• David Bowie Dead At 69

  11-01-2016 13:49
  
  Music icon David Bowie, whose illustrious career lasted five decades with hits like "Fame," ''Heroes" and "Let's Dance," died Sunday at the age of 69, his U.S. agent, Steve Martin, confirmed to CBS News in London.
  
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• Emergency Tulsa Fire Shelter Briefly Evacuated Over Gas Smell

  11-01-2016 13:39
  
  Tulsa firefighters briefly evacuated a Red Cross emergency shelter early Monday which had been set up for victims of an apartment complex fire on Sunday. 
  
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• Alan Crone's Weather Blog: MidWeek Warm Up

  11-01-2016 10:30
  
  Cold temperatures will remain this morning but we’ll see a minor and noticeable warm-up compared to the weekend for today with highs in the mid to upper 40s.   A weak surface front moves across part of northern OK tomorrow and this will bring the highs down into the lower 40s. 
  
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• Three Kansas City residents killed in horrific Oklahoma head-on crash identified

  11-01-2016 08:02
  
  A head-on crash east of Tulsa, OK has killed six people, including two children. All the victims have ties to the Kansas City area.
  
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• Mobster's sentence cut after informing on Terry Nichols

  11-01-2016 07:15
  A New York mobster has been rewarded with time off his prison sentence for revealing in 2005 that Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols hid a cache of explosives underneath his former house in Kansas.
  
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• Teen taken into custody in LeFlore County homicide

  11-01-2016 07:01
  
  A 17-year-old girl has been taken into custody following the homicide of a 45-year-old woman in LeFlore County, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Saturday.
  
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• Sheriff's Office has same 'political patronage' appraisers months after Glanz resignation

  11-01-2016 07:01
  The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office said no changes or new appointments have been made to the agency’s assessors appointed by former Sheriff Stanley Glanz, who dubbed his appointments “political patronage” before leaving office.
  
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• OHP identifies three in deadly Mayes County crash that killed six

  11-01-2016 07:01
  The crash occurred just before midnight on Friday when a 2015 Honda Odyssey carrying seven people crossed the center median on U.S. 69, about three miles south of Chouteau, and struck a tractor-trailer rig head-on, according to an OHP report.
  
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• David Boren says son's run for governor 'not a good idea'

  11-01-2016 07:01
  
  David Boren, a Democrat who’s headed the state’s flagship university for two decades and has been Oklahoma’s governor and a U.S. senator, issued a statement on the heels of an Associated Press report that the younger Boren was considering running for governor in 2018.
  
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• At least 12 seek shelter with American Red Cross after south Tulsa apartment fire

  11-01-2016 07:01
  The fire occurred Sunday morning at the Casa Linda Apartments, 1319 East 62nd St., and damaged the complex's electrical system, according to a news release from the American Red Cross.
  
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• Ability Resources helps family wake up from nightmare of sleeping on the floor

  11-01-2016 07:01
  
  The agency was able to provide beds and help the family connect with other resources.
  
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• What you need to know going into Vision town hall meetings

  11-01-2016 07:00
  Residents have three last opportunities this week to provide input on the Vision renewal tax package before it is put on a ballot to go before voters in April.
  
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• State Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger blasts Tulsa Chamber chairman in Facebook posts

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  The state's top budget officer called the Tulsa Regional Chamber's new chairman "disingenuous," "out of touch" and arrogant in two Facebook posts Thursday night.
  
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• Spillway of swollen Mississippi River open near New Orleans

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  The National Weather Service said the river was cresting Sunday at Tunica, Mississippi, and Helena, Arkansas, amid reports of some flooding in low-lying areas near Vicksburg and Natchez in Mississippi.
  
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• Ranchers' cause, not tactics, gains support in GOP circles

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  The decades-old idea could garner even more momentum should the party recapture the White House this year.
  
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• Powerful US bomber flies over S. Korea as standoff deepens

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  A powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea on Sunday, a clear show of force from the United States as a Cold War-style standoff deepened between its ally, Seoul, and North Korea following Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test.
  
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• Orthodox churches bless waters of Arkansas River

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  Three Tulsa-area Eastern Orthodox churches blessed the water of the Arkansas River Sunday afternoon, part of the annual celebration of the Feast of Theophany, also called Epiphany.
  
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• Michael Overall: After SPCA rescues, pets can become the 'best medicine'

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  Nurses can take a patient's blood pressure and literally measure the difference a dog makes.
  
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• Mexico: Sean Penn interview helped locate drug lord

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  Mexican officials say Sean Penn’s contacts with drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman helped them track the fugitive down — even if he slipped away from an initial raid on the hideout where the Hollywood actor apparently met him.
  
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• Maria Teresa de Filippis, first woman to race in Formula 1, has died at 89

  11-01-2016 07:00
  Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to race in Formula One, has died at the age of 89.
  
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• Lawmakers' bills include fines for students who misbehave, electromagnetic pulse attacks

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  The legislative session begins Feb. 1.
  
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• George M. Elsey, one of the last links to the FDR White House, dies at 97

  11-01-2016 07:00
  George M. Elsey, one of the last living links to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who pushed the president’s wheelchair around the White House’s top-secret Map Room during World War II and who later served as a top adviser, speechwriter and political strategist to President Harry S. Truman, died Dec. 30 at an assisted-living center in Tustin, California. He was 97.
  
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• French president, rocker honor 2015 attack victims

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  French President Francois Hollande and other dignitaries held a special ceremony Sunday to honor all those killed in Islamic extremist violence around Paris in 2015 — a year when the European way of life was targeted time and again with deadly consequences.
  
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• Cruz, Trump up in Iowa, but talk of 'takedown' effort fades

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  Despite such fears, talk of a “takedown” effort aimed at either Trump or Cruz appears to have faded as the Feb. 1 caucuses in Iowa near. For now, there is nervous acceptance that two of the Republican Party’s most divisive figures may stay at the top of the presidential pack well into the first month of voters’ getting their say.
  
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• Chilly temps make for good ice skating; downtown Winterfest ends next weekend

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  This season's eighth Winterfest opened Nov. 27 amid grey skies and rain, but most of the season was characterized by unseasonably warm weather, said Brian Smith, special events manager for SMG Tulsa, which operates the BOK Center and the Cox Business Center.
  
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• Call for supplies as Oregon standoff enters second week

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  The group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon’s high desert country on Jan. 2 planned no media briefings. It was quiet at the entrance to the refuge Sunday.
  
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• Andre Courreges, 92, French fashion designer known for miniskirt, dies

  11-01-2016 07:00
  
  Andre Courreges, the innovative French fashion designer whose creations spoke of the future, symbolized stylistic freedom and provoked hot dispute over whether he was first with the miniskirt, died Jan. 7 at his home outside Paris, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was 92.
  
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