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• Oklahoma Budget Gap Narrows, Smaller Cuts on Horizon

  21-05-2016 23:38
  
  An Oklahoma Watch review of major revenue-raising bills remaining alive as of Friday suggests the budget gap already has been narrowed by nearly $500 million, assuming all of them are signed into law.
  
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• One Arrested After Fatal Auto-Pedestrian Crash In Enid

  21-05-2016 23:15
  
  One girl is dead and one man was arrested early Saturday after police said he was involved in two crashes in Enid, police said.
  
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• USS Oklahoma Sailor Killed At Pearl Harbor To Be Buried In SE Kansas

  21-05-2016 19:32
  
  A southeast Kansas sailor who was serving on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 will be buried near Parsons on May 26.
  
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• Great Weather For Tulsa's Mayfest, Rain Returns Next Week

  21-05-2016 17:57
  
  After an extended stretch of unseasonably cool May weather, we look to have some terrific weather on the way for a very busy weekend of events across Green Country! 
  
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• Oklahoma Budget Crisis Clips Credit For Working Poor

  21-05-2016 17:06
  
  In their final rush to contend with Oklahoma’s budget crisis, state lawmakers have voted to curtail a tax credit described by advocates as one of the best programs ever devised to help the working poor.
  
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• OK Health Care Authority: No Cuts To Nursing Homes On Monday

  21-05-2016 16:36
  
  Nico Gomez, CEO of Oklahoma Health Care Authority, says he will not move forward with Medicaid cuts on Monday that would devastate the state's nursing homes. 
  
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• Police: Driver Blames Puppy For Downtown Tulsa Crash

  21-05-2016 15:12
  
  A woman crashed into two parked cars in downtown Tulsa late Friday after she told police she was distracted by puppies in the SUV.
  
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• Trying to get jump on Zika preparations with money in limbo

  21-05-2016 14:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Beg, borrow and steal: Zika preparation involves a bit of all three as federal, state and local health officials try to get a jump on the mosquito-borne virus while Congress haggles
  
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• Abandoned Tulsa County Home Destroyed By Fire

  21-05-2016 14:27
  
  Firefighters put out a fire at an abandoned house late Friday in east Tulsa. 
  
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• Correction: Mary Lincoln-Funeral story

  21-05-2016 14:21
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In a story May 20 about (topic), The Associated Press erroneously reported the year of President Abraham Lincoln's death in a story about the funeral ledger his wife kept. Lin
  
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• Solar Powered Plane Leaves Tulsa, Heads To Ohio

  21-05-2016 14:14
  
  The solar powered plane that has been in Tulsa since May 12 is now en route to Dayton, Ohio. 
  
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• Iraq: Border with Jordan to open soon, after year of closure

  21-05-2016 13:55
  
  AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A diplomat says Iraq's border crossing with Jordan is expected to reopen in about two weeks, ending an 11-month closure and enabling the resumption of vital trade and a return of
  
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• Two Seriously Injured In Rogers County Crash East Of Owasso

  21-05-2016 13:45
  
  The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says two people were seriously injured after a one vehicle crash in Rogers County early Saturday. 
  
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• In swing state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Trump

  21-05-2016 13:44
  
  WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — For Donald Trump to win the White House in November, he'll need the votes of women like lifelong Republican Wendy Emery.
  
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• Investigators: smoke detected on Egypt jet just before crash

  21-05-2016 13:41
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Smoke was detected in multiple places on EgyptAir flight 804 moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean, but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear, th
  
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• G7 takes aim at terrorist financing; rifts on policy remain

  21-05-2016 13:38
  
  AKIU, Japan (AP) — The Group of Seven major economies showed a united front on fighting terrorist financing and tax evasion in talks that ended Saturday, but shied away from coordinated action on poli
  
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• Solar-powered plane's latest leg: Oklahoma to Ohio

  21-05-2016 13:25
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A solar-powered airplane that landed in Oklahoma last week is headed to Ohio on the latest leg of its around-the-world journey.
  
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• Mexico Says 'El Chapo' Extradition To U.S. Can Go Forward

  21-05-2016 13:05
  
  Mexico's Foreign Relations Department ruled Friday that the extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States can go forward. 
  
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• Police: Northeast Oklahoma Meth Trafficking Ring Busted

  21-05-2016 13:02
  
  Police in northeast Oklahoma say they have broken an elaborate meth trafficking ring; the biggest such ring in the area in the last 15 years.  
  
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• Northeast Oklahoma Under Dense Fog Advisory

  21-05-2016 12:59
  
  The National Weather Service Office in Tulsa has issued a Dense Fog Advisory for a number of eastern Oklahoma counties Saturday morning.
  
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• The Latest: French official says no crash theory ruled out

  21-05-2016 12:44
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The Latest on the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 (all times local):
  
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• Vietnam frees jailed dissident priest ahead of Obama's visit

  21-05-2016 11:10
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam granted early release from prison to a Catholic priest who is one of its most prominent dissidents, a move widely seen as a goodwill gesture before President Barack Obama arrive
  
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• Afghan official: 6 dead in insider attack in volatile south

  21-05-2016 10:58
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police official says six police have been shot and killed by colleagues who turned their guns on them at a checkpoint in the volatile southern Uruzgan province.
  
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• AP Analysis: Why junta rules Thailand, with no end in sight

  21-05-2016 09:43
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military seized power from an elected government on May 22, 2014, with the justification that it wanted to end chaotic and violent political confrontations that had wracked t
  
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• Space shuttle tank begins trek to Los Angeles museum

  21-05-2016 09:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive space shuttle external propellant tank is squeezing through the streets of Los Angeles to join a display of the retired orbiter Endeavour at the California Science Center.
  
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• Group that helped sell Iran nuke deal also funded media

  21-05-2016 08:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and relate
  
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• George P. Bush: A Bush can survive in Trump political world

  21-05-2016 08:39
  
  DALLAS (AP) — George P. Bush was talking about his future political plans — and how Donald Trump wouldn't reshape them — when two women approached, giddy with excitement.
  
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• With austerity light on taxes, Cyprus sees economy rebound

  21-05-2016 08:34
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Less than two years ago, amid Cyprus' worst economic crisis in decades, a charity shop run by the Orthodox Church in the heart of medieval Nicosia was awash with jobless people
  
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• Woman arrested, accused of leaving kids alone at home to go use meth

  21-05-2016 07:00
  
  The woman reportedly said she left her kids in her boyfriend's care while she went to use meth.
  
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• Marriages published May 21, 2016

  21-05-2016 07:00
  
  (Tulsans unless specified)
  
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• At NRA, Trump slams Clinton for 'heartless' gun restrictions

  21-05-2016 07:00
  
  Donald Trump on Friday slammed Hillary Clinton as “heartless” for backing restrictions on gun ownership that he said would leave Americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves. He also challenged Clinton to follow his lead and release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees.
  
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• Alan Young, star of 1960s sitcom 'Mister Ed,' dies at 96

  21-05-2016 07:00
  Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed,” has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said Friday. He was 96.
  
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• News briefs: Secret Service shoots man with gun outside White House

  21-05-2016 05:30
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• Ninth person dies following charter bus crash in South Texas

  21-05-2016 05:29
  LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Officials say a ninth person has died after being injured in the crash of a charter bus in South Texas last weekend.
  
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• Trump's campaign investment tops $43 million

  21-05-2016 05:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaign finance reports filed late Friday show Donald Trump poured more than $7.5 million of his own money into his presidential campaign in April, bringing his total personal inves
  
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• City Engineer: 'Tulsa Bridges Are Rather Healthy'

  21-05-2016 04:52
  
  Oklahoma's road and bridge conditions are ranked some of the worst in the country, but Tulsa's city engineer said the city has taken measures to improve our bridges.
  
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• Tulsa Teen Crushed By Concrete Column On Road To Recovery

  21-05-2016 04:46
  
  A young woman, seriously injured in an accident at Edison High School is, for the first time, talking about her recovery.
  
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• News On 6 Gets Look Inside River Spirit Casino Expansion

  21-05-2016 04:41
  
  The first phase of a more than $300 million expansion project to River Spirit Casino will open in August, and it’s being compared to a resort in Las Vegas.
  
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• Survivors, caretakers show cancer what's up at Relay For Life at Guthrie Green

  21-05-2016 04:30
  
  At least one member of each of 30 teams at a time made laps around the Guthrie Green from 7 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday. It was a kind of "Take that, cancer!" show of solidarity.
  
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• American Airlines demolishes old headquarters buildings

  21-05-2016 04:21
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Six buildings that were part of American Airlines' headquarters in the 1980s have been demolished to clear the way for a new corporate campus.
  
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• Lindsay Man Arrested In Undercover Child Pornography Sting

  21-05-2016 04:02
  
  A tip from an undercover Texas investigator led to the arrest of a Lindsay man who had thousands of pictures and videos of child porn on his computer. 
  
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• North Korean diplomat who negotiated '94 deal with US dies

  21-05-2016 03:35
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top North Korean diplomat who negotiated a short-lived 1994 deal with the United States to freeze its nuclear programs in exchange for international aid has died of cancer,
  
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• Oklahoma Senate committee passes transgender bathroom bill

  21-05-2016 02:44
  
  The measure would require Oklahoma schools to provide separate accommodations to students who object to sharing shower, bathroom or locker room facilities with transgender individuals.
  
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• UN: Growing environmental threat from animal-to-man diseases

  21-05-2016 02:41
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The most worrying environmental threats facing the world today range from the rise in diseases transmitted from animals to humans to the increasing accumulation of toxic chemical
  
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• Donkeys up for adoption in Hawaii, but only in pairs

  21-05-2016 02:30
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — When David Paul Sennett was a child, he had a stuffed donkey. But he always wanted a real one of his own.
  
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• Scathing Report Shows Problems, Negligence In OK Executions

  21-05-2016 02:02
  
  The calls started around 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, 2015, three hours before convicted murderer Richard Glossip's third scheduled execution. 
  
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• Importance of careful driving stressed at viewing of National Work Zone Memorial

  21-05-2016 02:00
  
  Highway workers and families of ODOT employees killed while on the job gathered at Woodland Hills Mall to view the National Work Zone Memorial, which made its way to Tulsa on Friday.
  
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• Chicago police arrest almost 100 gang members over 2 days

  21-05-2016 01:50
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say they have arrested nearly 100 alleged street gang members and 40 others on weapons and drug trafficking charges in an effort to combat the city's gun violence.
  
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• Judge to decide if death-row inmates need air conditioning

  21-05-2016 01:44
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As summer approaches in Louisiana, prison officials insist that ice, fans and cold showers are enough to protect death-row inmates from dangerous heat and humidity.
  
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• US says Iraqi forces have retaken western town of Rutba

  21-05-2016 01:43
  
  TAJI, Iraq — The top American general for the Middle East said Friday he is confident that Iraq is on course to defeating the Islamic State, but his words were spare and cautious, his tone notably mut
  
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