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• No jail time for Missouri Capitol clergy protest

  18-08-2016 23:49
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Twenty-two religious leaders were spared from jail Thursday but still could face fines after being convicted of trespassing during protests in the Missouri Senate in support
  
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• Pilot out of hospital after fighter jet crashed near Vegas

  18-08-2016 23:47
  
  NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A veteran pilot has been released from the hospital after he was hurt when a fighter jet went down after completing an exercise with a military weapons school at an Air Fo
  
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• Self-driving cars go public; Uber offers rides in Pittsburgh

  18-08-2016 23:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The option to hail a ride in a self-driving car, which was science fiction just a few years ago, will soon be available to Uber users in Pittsburgh, the first time the technology
  
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• Anti-Muslim threats in Maine investigated as hate crime

  18-08-2016 23:22
  
  WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — A civil rights group is calling on authorities to look into written threats against the Islamic community in Maine.
  
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• The Latest: Some California fire evacuations lifted

  18-08-2016 23:19
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local):
  
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• TPS Starts School Year With No Teacher Vacancies For Second Year

  18-08-2016 23:16
  
  For the second year in a row, Tulsa Public School will have a teacher in every classroom for the first day of school.
  
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• Muskogee Police Need Help Identifying Robbery Suspect

  18-08-2016 23:00
  
  Muskogee police are reaching out to the public to help them identify a robbery suspect.
  
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• Indictment: Man spoke with IS while planning attack in US

  18-08-2016 22:57
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A federal indictment alleges that a North Carolina man accused of plotting a terror attack in the U.S. communicated with a member of the Islamic State as he developed his plans.
  
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• Naked Donald Trump statues pop up in cities across the US

  18-08-2016 22:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It's Donald Trump like he's never been seen before.
  
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• US says $400M to Iran was contingent on release of prisoners

  18-08-2016 22:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners.
  
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• The Latest: Can't unsee: Naked Trump statues in major cities

  18-08-2016 22:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Campaign 2016 (all times local):
  
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• A festival to remember a riot? New York event stirs debate

  18-08-2016 22:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It was the most searing racial clash in a generation in the nation's biggest city, spiraling out of the deaths of a black child and a Jewish doctoral student. Yet the 25th anniversary
  
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• Brazilian police say Lochte, US swimmers were not robbed

  18-08-2016 22:31
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police said Thursday that swimmer Ryan Lochte and U.S. teammates were not robbed after a night of partying, and that the intoxicated athletes instead vandalized a gas s
  
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• California congressman's father sentenced to year in prison

  18-08-2016 22:29
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The father of a California congressman was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison after prosecutors said he illegally funneled nearly $270,000 in contributi
  
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• Crocs, Waikiki resort sued over kid's escalator injuries

  18-08-2016 22:28
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Texas couple is suing footwear maker Crocs and a Waikiki resort after their 2-year-old son's foot got caught in an escalator while the family visited Hawaii for an oral surgeon conve
  
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• Obama administration to phase out some private prison use

  18-08-2016 22:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration announced Thursday it will phase out its use of some private prisons, affecting thousands of federal inmates and immediately sending shares of the two public
  
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• Baton Rouge's summer of pain: Shootings, unrest, now floods

  18-08-2016 22:20
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Anger. Sorrow. Vengeful glee. Guilt. Terrence Carter has experienced it all during Baton Rouge's summer of pain. And on Thursday, as he walked through the dirty water on the fl
  
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• Baltimore ends contract with lawyer accused of Neo-Nazi ties

  18-08-2016 22:18
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The city of Baltimore has terminated its contract with a lawyer after a published report says he supported Neo-Nazi groups.
  
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• Prosecutor says Texas lawyer acquitted of BP oil spill fraud

  18-08-2016 22:14
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office says a Texas lawyer and at least two other people have been acquitted of charges that they tried to commit fraud after the 2010 Gulf
  
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• Tulsa Man Pleads Guilty To Killing His Son

  18-08-2016 22:08
  
  A Tulsa man charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old son pleaded guilty in court Thursday. 
  
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• Image of Aleppo boy shocks world; Russia offers cease-fires

  18-08-2016 22:06
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Russian military said Thursday it was ready to back a U.N. call for weekly cease-fires for Syria's contested city of Aleppo, as haunting footage of a young boy's rescue from the afte
  
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• Sapulpa man pleads guilty in fatal shooting of his 5-year-old son during police standoff

  18-08-2016 22:00
  
  Bryon Creech is accused of shooting his son in his estranged wife’s Tulsa apartment during a 17-hour standoff with police, who had arrived to investigate a possible protective order violation.
  
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• Washington freeway reopens after tank truck rollover

  18-08-2016 21:54
  
  FIFE, Wash. (AP) — A section of a major freeway in Washington state has reopened state after a tanker truck rolled over and spilled fuel near the Port of Tacoma.
  
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• Kyrgyz weightlifter stripped of bronze medal in doping case

  18-08-2016 21:51
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A male weightlifter from Kyrgyzstan became the first athlete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to be stripped of a medal after a positive drug test. A Moldovan canoeist also risks l
  
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• The Latest: Union questions if cops can get 'fair shake'

  18-08-2016 21:46
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on Chicago police recommending that seven police officer be fired in the Laquan McDonald case (all times local):
  
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• Mother of missing Pennsylvania twins says they're in Georgia

  18-08-2016 21:39
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman charged with concealing the location of her twins from child welfare workers for the last 10 years now says the children are living with a family friend.
  
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• Hemingway home gets back antlers taken by Hunter S. Thompson

  18-08-2016 21:39
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A young Hunter S. Thompson went to Idaho to write about Ernest Hemingway and decided to take a piece of his hero home with him — a set of trophy elk antlers.
  
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• Joplin shooting suspect has mental health issues, dad says

  18-08-2016 21:37
  
  JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — The father of a southwest Missouri man charged in weekend shootings that left six people and two dogs wounded said his son has had mental health issues and that he believes he was s
  
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• Rain, Cooler Temps In The Forecast For Northeastern Oklahoma

  18-08-2016 21:36
  
  Showers should develop again in the morning south of Tulsa and then expand northward by late morning/early afternoon. Take rain gear with you tomorrow.  All the while, we are waiting on a cool front to arrive. 
  
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• The Latest: Homeland Security chief pledges Louisiana aid

  18-08-2016 21:32
  
  DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (AP) — The Latest on flooring in southern Louisiana (all times local):
  
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• Missing Arizona boy previously brought home by police

  18-08-2016 21:31
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police documents and body camera footage show that a 10-year-old Arizona boy who has been missing for a month had been found away from his home before.
  
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• Felonious furballs: Senate offices get unexpected visitors

  18-08-2016 21:00
  
  The two raccoons were apprehended on the second floor after ransacking a food storage cabinet in Sen. Patrick Anderson's office. "I was told they were given a verbal warning and released," said Malia Bennett, Senate communications director.
  
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• Firefighters attack huge California wildfire by air, ground

  18-08-2016 20:55
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Air tankers bombarded rugged slopes with fire retardant Thursday and a squadron of helicopters dropped load after load of water to corral a destructive wildfire threateni
  
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• The Latest: Dog in fatal Las Vegas boy mauling euthanized

  18-08-2016 20:54
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on a fatal dog mauling of a Las Vegas child (all times local):
  
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• Prosecutors probing allegations judge let clerk sit on bench

  18-08-2016 20:48
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors are investigating if a crime was committed when an Illinois judge allegedly allowed a law clerk to don a robe and preside over two court cases.
  
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• AP witnesses rescue of migrants off Libya, 4 bodies found

  18-08-2016 20:43
  
  ABOARD THE ASTRAL, MEDITERRANEAN SEA (AP) — A Spanish aid group rescued more than 100 migrants Thursday from three separate migrant boats off Libya's coast and recovered at least four bodies after one
  
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• OK's Voter ID Law Challenge Dismissed

  18-08-2016 20:42
  
  A challenge to Oklahoma's voter ID law was dismissed this week.
  
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• The Latest: Group urges police to investigate Muslim threats

  18-08-2016 20:35
  
  WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — The Latest on a threat of violence against Muslims in Maine (all times local):
  
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• Governor pledges $1M for sexual assault victims in Baltimore

  18-08-2016 20:16
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is pledging at least $1 million in grants to help groups that serve victims of sexual assault in Baltimore after the Justice Department found the police
  
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• Harley-Davidson pays $15 million in air-pollution settlement

  18-08-2016 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Harley-Davidson Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $15 million to settle a U.S. government complaint over racing tuners that caused its motorcycles to emit higher-than-allowed levels of air
  
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• Fate of crumbling DC subway rests with 'nuts-and-bolts guy'

  18-08-2016 19:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Wiedefeld stood on an overcrowded platform at Union Station, watching as trains came and went, too full to pick up more commuters. Metro was making him — the general manager of
  
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• Lava meets the sea, puts on fire-spitting show in Hawaii

  18-08-2016 19:53
  
  VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — For the first time in three years, lava from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has crept down miles of mountainside and is dripping into the Pacific Ocean, where
  
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• Tulsa Woman Enters Blind Plea In DUI Crash That Killed 2 Sisters

  18-08-2016 19:50
  
  A Tulsa woman waived her right to trial and entered a blind plea in the deaths of two sisters in a crash law enforcement said was caused by drinking and driving.  
  
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• Cold case expert hints at forthcoming arrest in Tulsa County's unsolved Dena Dean slaying

  18-08-2016 19:45
  
  "My advice to the perpetrators would be, 'Don't buy any green bananas,'" forensic psychologist Richard Walters said during a Thursday news conference.
  
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• Duo busted for human trafficking in Tulsa

  18-08-2016 19:39
  KRMG has told you before about Tulsa undercover officers using the popular website backpage.com to catch prostitutes. The latest incident happened on Wednesday, when a woman was arrested for prostitution near 41st and Memorial.
  
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• Montana college expels students 4 years after Saudis cheated

  18-08-2016 19:38
  
  BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Fifteen summer school students have been expelled for cheating at Montana Tech, the same college that dismissed several Saudi students and revoked the degrees of others after disco
  
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• US Air Force to change fire foam due to water contamination

  18-08-2016 19:34
  
  The U.S. Air Force is changing the foam it uses to fight fires because of concerns the substance has contaminated groundwater and spread to drinking water at some military sites.
  
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• The Latest: Lawmakers push for candidate tax return law

  18-08-2016 19:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Campaign 2016 (all times local):
  
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• Trump makes first battleground state ad buys

  18-08-2016 19:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With his new leadership team promising a sharper message, Donald Trump on Thursday moved to invest nearly $5 million in battleground state advertising.
  
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• The Latest: UN says 48-hour Syria pause would be 'welcome'

  18-08-2016 19:25
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the developments in Syria's civil war (all times local):
  
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