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• Marco Rubio Rallies In Downtown OKC

  26-02-2016 22:12
  
  Scores of people turned out to the Chevy Bricktown Events Center to see GOP Presidential hopeful and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
  
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• Bernie Sanders To Hold Campaign Event In OKC On Sunday

  26-02-2016 21:39
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will hold a campaign rally in Oklahoma City, Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Prison Escapee Arrested At His Tulsa Parents' Home

  26-02-2016 21:05
  
  The Department of Corrections says it has arrested an inmate who walked away from a Tulsa halfway house earlier this month.
  
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• Acting Tulsa Sheriff: Full Administration To Blame For Problems, Not One Person

  26-02-2016 20:50
  
  Acting Tulsa Sheriff Michelle Robinette held an impromptu news conference outside the federal courthouse in downtown Tulsa, a day after an audit reported wide-ranging problems with the office. 
  
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• Presidential Candidates Make Oklahoma Stops Ahead Of Primary

  26-02-2016 20:43
  
  Three Republican presidential candidates – Maro Rubio, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump – will be visiting the state in the next three days.
  
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• Conservative Groups To Honor Oklahoma Wesleyan University President

  26-02-2016 20:03
  
  The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville will receive the Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom.
  
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• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Endorses Donald Trump

  26-02-2016 19:33
  
  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday announced that he's endorsing Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race.
  
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• Center Of Universe Festival To Take Break In 2016, Will Return 2017

  26-02-2016 18:59
  The Center of the Universe Festival has outgrown itself, according to organizers, and it will take a haitus this summer to regroup and find a new venue. The Brady District, which is home to the iconic "Center of the Universe" attraction in downtown Tulsa, is just not large enough to accommodate the thousands of people who pack the music festival.
  
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• Fire Weather Watch Issued For Eastern Oklahoma Counties

  26-02-2016 18:54
  
  In Eastern Oklahoma, a fire weather watch is in effect for Saturday in Kay, Noble, Osage and Pawnee counties. Extremely dry and windy conditions are expected,.
  
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• Oktaha Schools Switch To 4-Day Weeks For Rest Of Year

  26-02-2016 18:50
  
  The Oktaha School District is switching to a four-day week beginning next week in order to save money. 
  
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• Florida appeals court orders enforcement of state's 24-hour waiting period for abortions

  26-02-2016 16:59
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida appeals court orders enforcement of state's 24-hour waiting period for abortions.
  
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• The Latest: UN set to vote on draft endorsing cease-fire

  26-02-2016 16:40
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria and the provisional cease-fire proposed by the U.S. and Russia that is to go into effect at midnight (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: South EU nations slam unilateral migrant action

  26-02-2016 16:35
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump objects to cursing

  26-02-2016 16:33
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump, offended by coarse language?
  
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• Sheriff: Hesston Police Officer Who Stopped Shooter A 'Tremendous Hero'

  26-02-2016 16:32
  
  Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton identified the man who opened fire Thursday at the Hesston, Kansas plant where he worked, killing three people and wounding others.  
  
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• Snyder lawyer called Flint water 'scary' before lead crisis

  26-02-2016 16:31
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two lawyers in Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's office urged his top aides to switch Flint back to Detroit's water system only months after the city began using the Flint River, with
  
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• First Oklahoma Trader Joe's Store Now Open In Tulsa

  26-02-2016 16:25
  
  Folks lined up early Friday for the opening of Tulsa's newest grocery store.   
  
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• Gunman's co-worker describes start of Kansas factory attack

  26-02-2016 16:21
  HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the attack at a central Kansas factory (all times local):
  
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• Live: Follow updates from the grand opening of Trader Joe's in Brookside

  26-02-2016 15:56
  
  The first Trader Joe's in Oklahoma opened today at 8 a.m. in Brookside. There will be sample and cooking demonstrations all day, as well as face painting for kids. Related story: Trader Joe's product line features items for every cravingRelated gallery: Trader Joe's treats worth checking outRelated story: Trader Joe's arrival a sign of Tulsa's growth
  
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• Sheriff: Cop who killed Kansas gunman a 'tremendous hero'

  26-02-2016 15:54
  
  HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection fro
  
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• Cheese exec, 2 companies to plead in mislabeled product case

  26-02-2016 15:41
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman whose family controls several western Pennsylvania cheese-making firms will plead guilty — along with two of her companies — to charges that their grated cheese had too littl
  
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• As truce nears, Syria activists report heavy Russian strikes

  26-02-2016 15:27
  BEIRUT (AP) — Warplanes unleashed airstrikes on the suburbs of the Syrian capital and near the northern, rebel-held city of Aleppo on Friday, hours before a cease-fire brokered by the United States an
  
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• Iran votes in first elections since landmark nuclear deal

  26-02-2016 15:23
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians across the Islamic Republic voted Friday in the country's first election since its landmark nuclear deal with world powers, deciding whether to further empower its moderat
  
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• Audit Finds 'System-Wide Failure' In Tulsa County Sheriff's Office

  26-02-2016 15:09
  
  A Dallas-based agency, hired by Tulsa County Commissioners to audit the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, has released a report of its findings.
  
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• Early Voting In Oklahoma's Presidential Preferential Primary Continues

  26-02-2016 15:04
  
  Oklahoma voters have three more days to cast a ballot in the state's presidential preferential primary.
  
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• Broken Water Main Leads To Multiple Crashes On Catoosa Highway

  26-02-2016 14:49
  
  Authorities blame a broken water main for icy conditions on a Catoosa highway that caused multiple crashes Friday morning.
  
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• Electric Heater Blamed For Washington County House Fire

  26-02-2016 14:47
  
  Officials say an electric heater is likely to blame for an Ochelata house fire early Friday.
  
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• Kansas Shooter Served With Protective Order Just Before Deadly Shootings

  26-02-2016 14:45
  
  Four people were killed, including the suspected gunman, and 14 others wounded in a shooting Thursday at a manufacturing plant near Wichita.
  
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• Disputes delay video surveillance at tense Jerusalem shrine

  26-02-2016 14:45
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Video surveillance of Jerusalem's holiest site was meant to be a quick fix to lower tensions that have driven months of Israeli-Palestinian violence, but disputes over who controls th
  
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• Clinton gives blunt talk on race where Obama trod lightly

  26-02-2016 14:45
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Stefanie Brown James, the director of African-American outreach for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, thought that the changes must have been typos.
  
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• 'Seriously Save Money' With News On 6 FAFSA Phone Bank

  26-02-2016 14:42
  
  News On 6 would like to help viewers "Seriously Save Money" on college. In Oklahoma, over half the students graduating from college will have big bills to pay. 
  
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• Palestinian prisoner ends 94-day hunger strike

  26-02-2016 14:35
  
  DURA, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian prisoner ended 94 days of his hunger strike on Friday after reaching a deal with Israeli authorities that says he will be released in three months' time, his famil
  
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• DUI suspect allegedly bites trooper during arrest

  26-02-2016 14:12
  
  The woman struggled with the trooper as he tried to cuff her and eventually bit him on the right arm, leaving "teeth marks," according to an arrest report.
  
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• Spain: Princess' husband begins testifying in fraud case

  26-02-2016 14:06
  
  MADRID (AP) — Inaki Urdangarin, the husband of Spain's Princess Cristina, has begun testifying in the tax and embezzlement trial the couple and 16 others are facing.
  
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• High school coach to plead guilty in child sex abuse case

  26-02-2016 14:05
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — A former high school teacher and wrestling coach who is facing child sex abuse charges has agreed to enter a guilty plea in Delaware.
  
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• Palestinian fugitive dies at embassy in Bulgaria

  26-02-2016 13:49
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian authorities are investigating the unexplained death on Friday of a Palestinian, wanted by Israel for a 1986 killing, at the Palestinian Authority's embassy in Sofia.
  
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• Waterline break causes accidents on Oklahoma 66 in Catoosa

  26-02-2016 13:43
  The break is affecting Oklahoma 66 southbound between East Pine Street and U.S. 412.
  
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• Police: Suspect cornered in South Carolina deputy's wounding

  26-02-2016 12:48
  GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — A suspect in the shooting and wounding of a South Carolina sheriff's deputy was barricaded in a house in North Charleston on Friday morning, a police spokesman said.
  
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• A look at Iran's vote for parliament, Assembly of Experts

  26-02-2016 11:32
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians are voting Friday in the country's first elections since the Islamic Republic sealed a landmark deal with the United States and other world powers over its
  
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• IMF's Lagarde, other G20 finance VIPs urge action on reforms

  26-02-2016 11:30
  SHANGHAI (AP) — Officials at a global finance meeting Friday urged governments to speed up promised job-creating reforms instead of relying on stimulus to perk up slackening growth.
  
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• Fugitive killed inside Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria

  26-02-2016 11:12
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian authorities are investigating the death of a Palestinian, wanted by Israel for a 1986 killing, inside the Palestinian Authority's embassy in Sofia.
  
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• Report says Tulsa sheriff's office had 'system-wide failure'

  26-02-2016 10:42
  A review team says an Oklahoma sheriff whose friend shot an unarmed suspect while working as a reserve deputy last year presided over a department suffering from a "system-wide failure of leadership and supervision." Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz stepped down in November.
  
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• Alan Crone's Weather Blog: Warming Trend With Increased Fire Danger

  26-02-2016 10:25
  
  Temperatures this morning are starting in the 20s, including the Tulsa metro, but will quickly move into the upper 50s or lower 60s this afternoon along with southwest winds at 10 to 20 mph.  
  
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• 'Seriously Save Money' With News On 6 Phone Bank

  26-02-2016 09:55
  
  News On 6 would like to help viewers "Seriously Save Money" on college. In Oklahoma, over half the students graduating from college will have big bills to pay. 
  
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• APNewsBreak: DoD launches aggressive cyberwar against IS

  26-02-2016 09:33
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has launched a newly aggressive campaign of cyberattacks against Islamic State militants, targeting the group's abilities to use social media and the Internet to re
  
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• Debate Takeaways: Rubio, Cruz aggressively take on Trump

  26-02-2016 07:35
  HOUSTON (AP) — It was the final opportunity for Donald Trump's opponents to change the trajectory of the Republican presidential race before Super Tuesday, and they made the most of it.
  
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• Voters turning out early to vote in presidential primary in Tulsa County

  26-02-2016 07:01
  Early voting is from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The ballot also features the Republican primary for Tulsa County sheriff.
  
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• Campaign kicks off to support Vision sales-tax proposal

  26-02-2016 07:01
  
  Past campaigns have lated the better part of a year, but this time there is little more than a month before the April 5 vote.
  
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• BOK Center dedicates chair to honor POW/MIA soldiers

  26-02-2016 07:01
  
  The chair, which is in the grand lobby of the BOK Center, is to sit empty as a reminder of the more than 90,000 service members who are prisoners of war or missing in action since World War I.
  
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• Up against global competition, ORU team races to prove high-speed pod travel viable

  26-02-2016 07:00
  
  Team Codex, made up primarily of ORU engineering majors, is one of 30 student teams from around the world selected to compete in the finals of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition inspired by Elon Musk.
  
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