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• US to renegotiate arms control rule for hacking tools

  29-02-2016 23:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressman says the Obama administration plans to renegotiate portions of an international arms control arrangement so that it's simpler to export tools related to hacking and sur
  
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• APNewsBreak: University leader refused to stop for deputy

  29-02-2016 23:55
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa's interim campus police leader interfered with an investigation into a hit-and-run drunk driving accident by his stepson after the two left an Iowa City b
  
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• GOP badly split as Trump, Clinton seek Super Tuesday wins

  29-02-2016 23:53
  
  VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — On the eve of Super Tuesday's crucial primaries, a sharp new divide erupted between Republicans who pledge to fall in line behind Donald Trump if he wins their party's nomination
  
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• Google self-driving car strikes bus on California street

  29-02-2016 23:45
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a Silicon Valley street, a fender-bender that appears to be the first time one of the tech company's vehicles caused
  
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• State auditor criticizes Creek County commissioners' procedure in property purchase through eminent domain

  29-02-2016 23:40
  
  According to court records, 226 acres was obtained in 2012 for economic development, which the audit report claims is in violation of the law.
  
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• Appeals judges grill lawyer in Sen. Menendez corruption case

  29-02-2016 23:35
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An attorney for indicted Sen. Bob Menendez faced a skeptical trio of appeals court judges Monday as he argued that corruption charges against the longtime congressman should be tos
  
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• The Latest: District will stay closed after school shooting

  29-02-2016 23:34
  
  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the school shooting near Hamilton, Ohio (all times local):
  
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• House OKs measure urging Iran to aid in Levinson's release

  29-02-2016 23:33
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives has approved a resolution calling on Tehran to fulfill its promise of assistance in the case of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing in I
  
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• External report: Sheriff's Office use-of-deadly-force policies allow for misunderstanding, inconsistencies

  29-02-2016 23:00
  Tulsa County Sheriff's Office policies guiding the follow-up on deputy-involved shootings are so "unstructured and haphazardly laid out" that only one employee could articulate the process, according to an external evaluation, and "preference of the undersheriff" largely decided how those investigations were conducted.
  
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• Australian cardinal says he has 'full backing' of pope

  29-02-2016 23:00
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — One of Pope Francis' top advisers has told reporters he has the pope's backing as he prepared to testify for a second day at an Australian inquiry into child abuse.
  
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• Turner Turnpike Reopened After Grass Fires Near Stroud, Bristow

  29-02-2016 17:22
  
  Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed the Turner Turnpike at Bristow and Stroud for an hour as grass fires limited visibility for drivers. 
  
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• School Back In Session For Some Oologah-Talala Students After Gas Leak

  29-02-2016 17:18
  
  After a week of canceled classes, school is back in session for some students at Oologah-Talala Schools. 
  
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• Man Treated After Tulsa Deputies Say He Swallowed Baggie Of Drugs

  29-02-2016 16:41
  
  A Tulsa County deputy stopped a man who appeared to be intoxicated. The man ran and swallowed a baggie of what authorities believed to be methamphetamine.
  
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• Alan Crone Weather Blog: Overnight Thunderstorms Expected

  29-02-2016 16:27
  
  A strong upper level system will be moving across the state bringing a chance of showers and thunderstorms into the area. Some of the storms may be severe with golf ball-sized hail a possibility.
  
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• OHP, Owasso Police Respond To Multi-Vehicle Crashes

  29-02-2016 16:24
  
  Owasso police and fire and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol responded to multi-vehicle crashes on southbound Highway 169 in Owasso. 
  
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• Tulsa Police Say Man Stole Pickup From Casino

  29-02-2016 15:39
  
  A man is in police custody after officers find him driving a truck they say was stolen from a local casino.  
  
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• Presidential Hopeful Marco Rubio To Speak In Jenks

  29-02-2016 15:38
  
  Senator Marco Rubio will host a rally tonight at Jenks High School.  Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the 8:30 p.m. event.  
  
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• House Passes Bill To Help Increase Funding For 911 Call Centers Across OK

  29-02-2016 14:52
  
  The Oklahoma House has passed a bill to help increase funding for 911 call centers across the state. 
  
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• Tuesday's Primary To Narrow Race For New Tulsa County Sheriff

  29-02-2016 14:51
  
  Tulsa County voters are set to elect the first new Sheriff in nearly three decades. 
  
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• Oologah High Still Closed To Students Due To Gas Leak; K-8 Reporting Monday

  29-02-2016 14:48
  
  Oologah Public Schools is resuming classes Monday for students kindergarten through eighth grade.
  
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• The Latest: France seeks immediate Syria task force meeting

  29-02-2016 12:00
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria as a fragile cease-fire enters its third day (all times local):
  
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• Nurse's claims ignite euthanasia debate in Portugal

  29-02-2016 12:00
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of Portugal's national nurses' association has caused a storm by claiming that some doctors in the country's national health service have connived in assisted suicides
  
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• The Latest: Macedonian police fire tear gas at migrants

  29-02-2016 11:52
  
  IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
  
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• Clinton focuses on general, while Sanders sticks to script

  29-02-2016 11:45
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In the wake of her blowout win in the South Carolina primary, Hillary Clinton is looking to the future, while Bernie Sanders seems stuck in the past.
  
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• 2 hikers die in snow storm in eastern Spain

  29-02-2016 09:52
  
  MADRID (AP) — Emergency services in Spain say they have found the bodies of two female hikers who got caught in a snow storm while walking in a mountain area in the eastern part of the country.
  
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• In blow to Iran hard-liners, moderates win clerical assembly

  29-02-2016 09:37
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's moderates have dealt another blow to the country's hard-liners, winning the majority of seats in last week's vote for the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body empowered with
  
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• Battling outbreak, Hawaii faces small staff, pesticide fears

  29-02-2016 09:04
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — On a farm in the heart of Hawaii's ongoing dengue outbreak, coffee grows wild among the ferns, and vanilla vines climb guava trees. It's hard to know where nature ends and the farm beg
  
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• North Korea puts tearful detained American before cameras

  29-02-2016 08:13
  
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at t
  
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• For Iranian restaurants in Saudi, it's business as usual

  29-02-2016 07:19
  
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia's rivalry has played out in proxy wars across the region, and escalated further after the two severed diplomatic and trade ties last month. Yet in the
  
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• Tulsa Vision's funding for Expo Square would update, upgrade and expand facilities

  29-02-2016 07:01
  
  Chief Deputy County Commissioner Michael Willis said the events the Tulsa County fairgrounds hosts benefit the city in sales taxes when the thousands of people who attend those events eat at nearby restaurants and stay at nearby hotels.
  
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• Sanders rocks his supporters during OKC rally

  29-02-2016 07:01
  
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont elicited an electric response from an Oklahoma City crowd Sunday afternoon with his talk of taking down Wall Street’s grip on Congress and his political opponents, a higher minimum wage, criminal justice reform, equal pay for women and paid family medical leave.
  
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• Victims' families discuss 2013 quadruple homicide in advance of long-awaited trial

  29-02-2016 07:00
  
  The Tulsa World revisited family members of victims who were found shot to death with their hands tied behind their backs in an apartment near 61st Street and Peoria Avenue.
  
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• Twin bombing attacks in Baghdad market kill at least 59

  29-02-2016 07:00
  
  A bomb ripped through the crowded Mredi market in the Shiite district of Sadr City, a police officer said. Minutes later, a suicide bomber blew himself up amid the crowd that had gathered at the site of the first bombing, he added.
  
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• Michael Overall: At Civic Center Plaza, Tulsa is fixing a 57-year-old mistake

  29-02-2016 07:00
  
  Friends of Downtown Business turned out to be remarkably prophetic. Not about Armageddon, luckily. But about the rest of their argument.
  
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• Hominy man dies in Pawnee County hit-and-run collision

  29-02-2016 07:00
  
  Joshua Breman was pronounced dead at the scene from head injuries caused when an unknown vehicle struck him about 12:30 a.m. on U.S. 412 about six miles west of Westport.
  
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• Ginnie Graham: Tulsans re-enact Leap Year photo 56 years later

  29-02-2016 07:00
  
  Mark Alan Gassaway and Carol Whitley Durkee celebrated their first Leap Year birthday together for the Tulsa World's front page but haven't seen each other until a surprise reunion earlier this month.
  
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• East Tulsa Home Burns; Man Taken To Hospital

  29-02-2016 05:42
  
  Firefighters pulled a man from a house fire at East 21st Place and 74th East Avenue on Sunday night.
  
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• Oklahoma Business Holds Firearm Safety Class For Clients

  29-02-2016 04:26
  
  Recent shootings across the country have people clamoring for concealed weapon permits. One Oklahoma business wants to make sure clients getting a permit safely can use a firearm.
  
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• North Korea presents detained American to media

  29-02-2016 04:12
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea has presented a detained American student before media in Pyongyang.
  
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• Cardinal admits 'scandalous' response to abuse allegations

  29-02-2016 03:31
  
  ROME (AP) — One of Pope Francis' top advisers acknowledged Sunday that the Catholic Church "has made enormous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centu
  
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• Rock comes out swinging at Oscars, Vikander wins

  29-02-2016 03:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Rock, clad in a white tuxedo, kicked off the 88th Academy Awards — "the White People's Choice Awards," he called them — in a rip-roaring opening monologue that confronted head
  
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• Ohio pastor shot, killed on Sunday at his church

  29-02-2016 03:22
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio pastor with deep roots in the Dayton community was shot and killed at his church Sunday, and police say they expect to charge his brother in the slaying on Monday.
  
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• Individual taken to hospital after midtown Tulsa house fire

  29-02-2016 02:55
  The fire broke out about 7:20 p.m. at a home on the 2100 block of South 74th East Avenue.
  
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• Oologah High Still Closed To Students Due To Gas Leak; K-8 Will Report Monday

  29-02-2016 02:47
  
  Oologah will resume classes tomorrow for K-8 students. School officials say high school students will not have class, but high school teachers will need to report to school.
  
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• Jackson Goddard

  29-02-2016 02:27
  
  Holland Hall Four-time letterman in baseball under head coach Stephen Robison... One-time letterman in football... Tossed a no-hitter against Fort Worth Country Day his junior year... Went 8-1 with a 1.52 ERA his junior season... Holds the school record for strikeouts in a single game.
  
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• Home of Disneyland has a history intertwined with the KKK

  29-02-2016 02:27
  
  ANAHEIM, California (AP) — The home of Disneyland, the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth, is also the town where the Ku Klux Klan once ran the City Council, burned crosses and rallied 10,000 peo
  
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• Former Klan leader at center of latest GOP campaign joust

  29-02-2016 01:59
  
  LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Republican front-runner Donald Trump drew sharp criticism from his rivals in both parties Sunday for refusing to denounce an implicit endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader D
  
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