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• Showers, Storms To Move Into Green Country

  29-04-2016 22:52
  
  By 8 p.m., rain chances increase from 50 percent to 90 percent in Green Country. That also carries a low chance of strong to severe storms with some howling winds.
  
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• Stillwater Teen Arrested For Payne County Homicide

  29-04-2016 22:37
  
  A 14-year-old girl has been arrested, connected to the murder of a man found in his Ripley home.
  
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• Second Arrest In 2015 Ted's Hamburger Shop Owner's Murder

  29-04-2016 20:15
  
  Tulsa Police have made a second arrest in the stabbing death of the owner of Ted's Hamburgers. 
  
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• Bartlesville's Johnstone Park Remains Closed Due To Storm Damage

  29-04-2016 19:20
  
  A downtown Bartlesville park is expected to remain closed until next week after several trees were damaged by high winds on April 26.  
  
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• Train Slips Off Tracks In Owasso; Police Call It 'Minor' Derailment

  29-04-2016 18:30
  
  Owasso police confirm a "minor" train derailment on 76th Street North on Friday morning.
  
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• Bever Brothers' District Court Arraignment Delayed Until July

  29-04-2016 18:26
  
  The district court arraignment for two Broken Arrow brothers charged in the deaths of five members of their family has been pushed back. 
  
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• Man Accused Of Crashing Into Alva Hotel Charged In Jail Incident

  29-04-2016 18:12
  
  A man accused of crashing his pickup into the front desk of a northwestern Oklahoma hotel and nearly hitting two women is now facing additional charges involving a county jail incident.
  
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• Street Rehab Project At Tulsa's 21st And Utica To Restrict Traffic

  29-04-2016 17:50
  
  The City of Tulsa says traffic on a section of South Utica will be restricted until mid-June for a street rehabilitation project.
  
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• Nebraska, Oklahoma Join Suit To Halt Colorado Marijuana Law

  29-04-2016 17:07
  
  Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson and his counterpart in Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt are joining a lawsuit aimed at halting legal marijuana in Colorado. 
  
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• Oklahoma National Guard Soldiers Train For Middle East Mission

  29-04-2016 16:22
  
  Members of the Oklahoma Army National Guard are gearing up for a deployment to the Middle East later this year.   
  
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• Spain: Park workers discover huge Roman coin trove

  29-04-2016 15:37
  
  MADRID (AP) — Workers laying pipes in a southern Spanish park have unearthed a 600-kilogram (1,300-pound) trove of Roman coins in what culture officials say is a unique historic discovery.
  
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• Violence follows California Trump rally, about 20 arrested

  29-04-2016 15:36
  
  COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Raucous protesters and supporters of Donald Trump violently confronted each other in California leading to some 20 arrests as the Republican presidential contender brought hi
  
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• 11 dead, 2 missing after oil-rig helicopter crash off Norway

  29-04-2016 15:36
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An oil-rig helicopter crashed Friday on an island off the coast of western Norway, killing 11 people and leaving two others missing, a rescue official said.
  
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• Violence in Syria's Aleppo kills many including worshippers

  29-04-2016 15:32
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Insurgents shelled a mosque in a government-held neighborhood of Aleppo, killing at least 15 people as they left Friday prayers, while government airstrikes struck rebel-held pa
  
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• Dog missing 10 years found in Alabama, returning to owner

  29-04-2016 15:27
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Tracy Dove assumed the worst after her 1-year-old dog named Charlie disappeared in 2006. Days without the animal turned into years, and Dove figured the brown-and-white pointer
  
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• Voting underway in key runoff parliamentary election in Iran

  29-04-2016 15:26
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians voted Friday in the country's parliamentary runoff elections, state media reported, a key polling that is expected to decide exactly how much power moderate forces backing
  
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• The Latest: Biden's grand welcome at Italian PM's residence

  29-04-2016 15:24
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Vatican City and Rome (all times local):
  
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• Coroner: Louisiana man killed by lightning

  29-04-2016 15:23
  SLIDELL, La. (AP) — A Louisiana coroner says a man working on a Slidell-area construction site died after being struck by lightning.
  
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• Officials Warn Of New Scam Targeting EMV Chip Cards

  29-04-2016 15:18
  
  Everywhere you turn these days scammers are trying to steal your personal information. 
  
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• Sentencing of Colorado woman who cut baby from womb

  29-04-2016 15:17
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A judge is set to sentence a Colorado woman convicted of attempted murder after cutting a nearly 8-month-old fetus from a stranger's womb.
  
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• Expert: Freshman died of nosebleed, not attack by boyfriend

  29-04-2016 15:16
  LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A defense expert says a Pennsylvania college freshman who prosecutors say was beaten and strangled by her boyfriend in her dorm room actually died from a "massive nosebleed" caus
  
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• Exxon's 1Q profit plunges 63 percent on lower oil prices

  29-04-2016 15:13
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Exxon Mobil produced its weakest quarter in more than 16 years as lower oil prices pushed its profit down by 63 percent.
  
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• AP Newsbreak: SF official releases more police racist texts

  29-04-2016 15:08
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's police chief has ordered effective immediately that all officers attend an anti-harassment class, even as he released more transcripts of a former lieutenant and t
  
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• Merle Haggard Memorial Planned For Muskogee

  29-04-2016 14:52
  
  The Muskogee Civic Center may be getting a Merle Haggard memorial thanks to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.  
  
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• The Latest: Violence, arrests follow California Trump rally

  29-04-2016 14:48
  COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a rowdy protest outside Donald Trump's rally in Southern California (all times local):
  
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• Memorial set for 25 WWII US soldiers lost in Italian lake

  29-04-2016 14:43
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A trio of U.S. Army veterans has teamed up to establish a memorial in Italy to the 25 American soldiers who drowned in an Alpine lake when their amphibious vehicle sank during Worl
  
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• 4 young girls run away from Florida foster home

  29-04-2016 14:39
  
  BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities are searching for four foster children who were discovered missing from their beds during head count at a private foster care home near Tampa.
  
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• Shot Fired During Broken Arrow Armed Robbery

  29-04-2016 14:29
  
  Broken Arrow Police say they have one person in custody after an armed robbery of a business in the 2400 block of West Kenosha Thursday evening.
  
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• Former SS Auschwitz guard apologizes at trial in Germany

  29-04-2016 14:22
  
  DETMOLD, Germany (AP) — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant admitted in court Friday that he had served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, apologizing to Nazi Holocaust survivors looking on in a German co
  
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• At the Vatican, Biden calls for global commitment to cancer

  29-04-2016 14:17
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Casting cancer as a scourge with no boundaries, Vice President Joe Biden came to the Vatican on Friday to call for a global commitment to fund cancer research rooted in appreciatio
  
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• Suspect Sought After Man Shot In Back Outside Tulsa Apartment

  29-04-2016 14:14
  
  Police say a man is in the hospital after a shooting Thursday night at Tulsa's Edenwood Apartments. 
  
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• Racist statements lead lawmakers to reject John Wayne Day

  29-04-2016 14:09
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — What a California lawmaker intended as a benign resolution honoring a late, world-renowned movie icon exploded into an emotional debate over decades-old racist comments.
  
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• Parts of India ban daytime cooking as hundreds die of heat

  29-04-2016 13:39
  PATNA, India (AP) — With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials said Friday they were banning daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country i
  
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• Early-morning rains cause crashes in Tulsa; Operation Slick Streets activated

  29-04-2016 13:38
  
  Tulsa police will only respond to injury accidents until Operation Slick Streets is deactivated.
  
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• The Latest: Syria army declares truce in 2 areas, not Aleppo

  29-04-2016 13:17
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria's civil war (all times local):
  
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• Shots Fired During Robberies Of Tulsa Family Dollar And McDonalds

  29-04-2016 13:14
  
  Tulsa police are investigating after receiving reports of shots fired during two armed robberies late Thursday night.
  
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• Students upset over school paper's racially charged cartoon

  29-04-2016 13:06
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Students at Wesley College in Delaware have expressed outrage over two racially charged cartoons that appeared in the student newspaper last week.
  
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• NYC police: Man offers boy up for sex in Central Park

  29-04-2016 12:59
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities in New York City are looking for a man who they say offered a boy up for sex to a passerby in Central Park.
  
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• Shot fired after robbery at Broken Arrow GameStop; one of two suspects in custody

  29-04-2016 12:50
  
  One of the suspects reportedly fired a single shot during a confrontation with witnesses. Nobody was injured.
  
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• French politicians decry violence at Nuit Debout protest

  29-04-2016 12:28
  
  PARIS (AP) — French politicians have decried the violence which erupted at the margins of anti-labor reform protests in Paris and other French cities.
  
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• Alan Crone's Weather Blog: Severe Storm Chances Again

  29-04-2016 10:02
  
  Thunderstorms will remain in the forecast this morning through the evening hours across part of the state, including the Tulsa metro.   Some storms may be severe.   This system will exit northeastern OK early Saturday morning.  
  
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• Whitey Bulger's girlfriend gets 21 more months in prison

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  The longtime girlfriend of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was sentenced Thursday to an additional 21 months in prison by a judge who said she had shown a “twisted” sense of loyalty to Bulger by refusing to testify about whether other people helped him while he was a fugitive.
  
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• U.S. Sens. James Lankford, Jim Inhofe see approval ratings slip below 50 percent

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  Senior U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was given a positive rating by 49 percent of the 715 registered Oklahoma voters surveyed, and junior Sen. James Lankford came in at 47 percent.
  
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• Tulsa police identify 30-year-old woman killed in auto-pedestrian crash

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  Jamie Cravatt, 30, was fatally struck by an SUV on 11th Street near Peoria Avenue about 9 p.m. Wednesday.
  
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• Tulsa baby's death in dirty shed spurs DHS to discipline employees, review two years of child abuse, neglect deaths

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  Anna Marie Hyden, whose son Arrow was 5 months old when he died on Jan. 16, admitted to a DHS worker she used heroin and drank alcohol up through her last trimester. That case has prompted an internal review of two years of cases by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and pending disciplinary actions against some of its employees.
  
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• Suspect in massive 2012 Creek County cigarette-caused wildfire arrested nearly 4 years later

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  Billy Cloud, 40, was booked into the Creek County Jail on a charge of third-degree arson, or, in the alternative, unlawful burning during a burn ban.
  
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• Sen. Jim Inhofe not satisfied with report on Tulsa VA clinic

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  "I remain concerned that our state VA facilities have become more focused on protecting their bottom line than actually ensuring veterans are receiving quality, timely care," Inhofe said.
  
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• Sapulpa woman arrested in slaying of 66-year-old northwest Tulsa man

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  Jimmi Campbell of Sapulpa — also called Jimme Sewell in jail records — was arrested on complaint of second-degree murder in the death of Terry McCorkle.
  
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• Robert Bates jailed in individual cell to avoid inmates he may have come into contact with on duty

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  Bates, 74, will be allowed one hour of recreation, as well as showers and commissary, Sheriff's Office spokesman Justin Green said.
  
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• Oklahoma's Medicaid board OK's cuts to mental health, substance abuse treatment providers

  29-04-2016 07:00
  
  As a result of the two state revenue failures, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has cut almost $23 million from its budget over the past few months.
  
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