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• OTA Delaying Toll Increase Vote Could Slow Important Tulsa Project

  23-08-2016 23:52
  
  The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority plans to increase tolls soon, but that didn't happen Tuesday. A lawsuit delayed a vote on the increase, which could slow down an important Tulsa project.
  
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• AG Scott Pruitt Approves Sale Of High-Point Beer By Local Brewers

  23-08-2016 23:49
  
  Oklahoma attorney general released the official opinion Tuesday afternoon concerning the direct sales and consumption of high-point beers for local brewers.
  
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• AG's opinion clears way for Oklahoma brewers to sell pints of full-strength beer

  23-08-2016 23:30
  
  Pruitt's opinion ensures the new law, Senate Bill 424, can go into effect Thursday. Under the new law, craft breweries will be able to sell full-strength beer to visitors by the pint, as well as bottles, cans and growlers for customers to take home.
  
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• Coroner: Self-inflicted shot killed man in police gunfight

  23-08-2016 23:26
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans coroner says a man who died after exchanging gunfire with police Sunday apparently killed himself after being wounded.
  
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• Indianapolis officer mistakenly shoots armed homeowner

  23-08-2016 23:17
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis police officer mistakenly shot and badly wounded an armed homeowner who was trying to protect his wife during an attempted robbery early Tuesday, authorities said.
  
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• Law Firm Donates School Supplies To Tulsa Students

  23-08-2016 23:10
  
  Tuesday, Tulsa law firm Graves McLain donated backpacks filled with school supplies, to every single student at Jackson Elementary.
  
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• Tinker AFB Workers Enter Fourth Week Of Strike

  23-08-2016 23:08
  
  The union is responsible for any and all maintenance to the facilities on base everything from heating to cooling to plumbing, according to Moody. Their strike poses a problem for some work being done on base in which climate controlled buildings are key for the production of aircraft.
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff: Man used ax, then gunshots in massacre

  23-08-2016 23:07
  
  CITRONELLE, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of five adults at a home in Alabama (all times local):
  
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• Murder charge for Tulsa man in slaying of Lebanese neighbor

  23-08-2016 23:06
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Tulsa man on Tuesday with first-degree murder and committing a hate crime in the killing of his Lebanese neighbor — a culmination of what authorities said was
  
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• Tulsa Police Release Video From Check Cashing Store Robbery

  23-08-2016 22:47
  
  Tulsa police release surveillance video of an armed robbery at the Check-N-Go near 51st and Harvard.
  
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• AP NewsBreak: Feds want to ban swimming with Hawaii dolphins

  23-08-2016 22:47
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Federal regulators are proposing to ban swimming with dolphins in Hawaii, a move that could imperil one of the Aloha State's most popular tourist activities and the industry that has s
  
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• Hearing Held For Former Tulsa Police Officer Charged With Murder

  23-08-2016 22:45
  
  A former Tulsa police officer charged with killing his daughter's boyfriend returned to court Tuesday asking that some evidence be thrown out.
  
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• The Latest: FEMA Oks more than $107M Louisiana flood relief

  23-08-2016 22:43
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on Louisiana Flooding (all times local):
  
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• Obama vows support for Louisiana after the 'cameras leave'

  23-08-2016 22:43
  
  ZACHARY, La. (AP) — Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana "even after the TV cam
  
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• Turkey, Syrian Kurds on track for conflict in northern Syria

  23-08-2016 22:41
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey signaled Tuesday it would step up its engagement in the Syrian war, as Turkish-backed Syrian rebels massed along the border to assault one of the last Syrian frontier town
  
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• Zoo Atlanta's giant female panda is expecting twins, again!

  23-08-2016 22:35
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Oh baby, baby! Atlanta's zoo says its giant panda is expecting her second set of twins.
  
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• Recordings capture chaos of Florida face-biting slayings

  23-08-2016 22:30
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida sheriff's deputies confronted chaos as they tried to subdue an attacker biting a victim's face after stabbing and beating a couple to death in a random assault out
  
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• Ruling: Grad students at private universities can unionize

  23-08-2016 22:29
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that graduate students who assist in teaching and research at private universities are employees and have a right to union representati
  
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• Police: Man robbed, killed after bowling date set up online

  23-08-2016 22:25
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who took a woman bowling after meeting through an online dating site was fatally shot the next night when she returned with three other men and a gun, police said Tuesday.
  
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• Experts: Mexico storms led to deaths of millions of monarchs

  23-08-2016 22:13
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Storms earlier this year blew down more than a hundred acres of forests where migrating monarch butterflies spend the winter in central Mexico, killing more than 7 percent of the mo
  
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• Burt's Bees landowner gifts land to US government

  23-08-2016 22:07
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Burt's Bees founder pushing for a new national park in Maine has given 87,500 acres of land to the U.S. government.
  
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• The Latest: Deputies radioed chaos of face-biting slayings

  23-08-2016 21:50
  
  STUART, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of a couple by an attacker caught biting the dead man's face (all times local):
  
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• In Turkey, Biden aims to mend wobbly ties to key NATO ally

  23-08-2016 21:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With suspicions on both sides mounting, the United States is struggling to preserve its wobbly partnership with Turkey as the Turks entertain closer relations with Russia and fume ov
  
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• The Latest: East Baton Rouge Parish curfew suspended

  23-08-2016 21:43
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on Louisiana Flooding (all times local):
  
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• New estimates: Deficit increase after years of declines

  23-08-2016 21:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government report released Tuesday blames lower-than-expected tax revenues for a spike in this year's budget deficit to $590 billion. That's an increase of about one-third over
  
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• Jones man arrested on child abuse charges

  23-08-2016 21:26
  
  He was arrested on 31 complaints of sexual abuse of a child and first degree rape of a child.
  
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• States file another lawsuit over Obama transgender rules

  23-08-2016 21:25
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas and four other Republican-led states filed another lawsuit Tuesday seeking to roll back the Obama administration's efforts to strengthen transgender rights, saying new feder
  
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• No appeal in Indiana woman's overturned feticide conviction

  23-08-2016 21:13
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's attorney general has opted not to appeal a recent ruling that overturned a woman's feticide conviction for a self-induced abortion that killed her premature infant.
  
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• Official: FBI investigating cyberattack of New York Times

  23-08-2016 21:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the FBI is investigating a cyberattack targeting reporters of The New York Times and is looking into whether Russian intelligence agencies are responsible.
  
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• First-Degree Murder Charges Filed In Death Of Khalid Jabara

  23-08-2016 21:12
  
  First-degree murder charges were filed against Stanley Vernon Majors in the August 12 shooting death of Khalid Jabara in Tulsa. 
  
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• British mom wins US judge OK to see son held in Trump threat

  23-08-2016 21:12
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mother of a British man accused of trying to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won approval from a judge to visit her son in federa
  
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• Ex-host sues Fox claiming sexual harassment, retaliation

  23-08-2016 21:05
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former Fox News host has sued the network, its ousted chairman and other top executives, claiming they retaliated after she detailed unwanted sexual advances made by her onetime boss
  
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• US: Turkey has filed extradition request for exiled cleric

  23-08-2016 21:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it has received a formal extradition request from Turkey for exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen.
  
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• Trump aides covertly fought freeing of Ukraine prisoner

  23-08-2016 20:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than three years, lobbyist Jim Slattery worked in Washington to secure the release in Ukraine of the imprisoned political rival of the country's then-president. He said the
  
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• Tulsa County DA files first-degree murder charge in shooting death of Khalid Jabara

  23-08-2016 20:53
  
  Formal charges were filed Tuesday against Stanley Majors, who is accused of shooting 37-year-old Khalid Jabara on Aug. 12 on Jabara's front porch.
  
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• The Latest: UN delivers aid to besieged Syrian town

  23-08-2016 20:45
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local):
  
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• Police: Man accused of killing 3 in Ohio was hearing voices

  23-08-2016 20:45
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting three people was hearing voices when he showed up at a behavioral health care facility the day of the Ohio shootings, according to public document
  
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• Pregnant horse in Idaho stabbed to death ahead of adoption

  23-08-2016 20:34
  
  AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A person is suspected of stabbing a free-roaming pregnant horse to death in eastern Idaho hours before she was going to be adopted.
  
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• Minnesota man charged in 5-year-old girl's abduction, death

  23-08-2016 20:34
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 25-year-old man who was considered a family friend was charged Tuesday with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing a 5-year-old girl from central Minnesota — leaving her body
  
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• Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State

  23-08-2016 20:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the
  
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• The Latest: Clinton says she would help small businesses

  23-08-2016 20:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Rhode Island sues to get Russian sub removed from scrapyard

  23-08-2016 20:32
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island environmental officials are suing to get the hollowed-out hull of a Russian submarine removed from the site of a Providence scrapyard.
  
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• The Latest: Crews make progress on Washington fires

  23-08-2016 20:28
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local):
  
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• OTA puts off vote on toll increases to pay for turnpike initiative

  23-08-2016 20:00
  
  A pending lawsuit and other issues are cited in the need to table the proposed toll increase.
  
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• President Obama Visiting Flooded Louisiana In Show Of Support

  23-08-2016 19:58
  
  President Barack Obama makes his first visit to flood-ravaged southern Louisiana as he attempts to assure the many thousands who have suffered damage to their homes, schools and businesses that his administration has made their recovery a priority.
  
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• Teen survives rare amoeba infection that kills most people

  23-08-2016 19:57
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida boy has survived a brain-eating amoeba that kills most people who contract it.
  
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• Authorities to conduct DUI checkpoint in midtown this weekend

  23-08-2016 19:50
  
  The checkpoint will begin Friday night and conclude Saturday morning.
  
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• The Latest: Kaine promotes Clinton small-business plan

  23-08-2016 19:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• FBI investigates attack; suspect shouted 'Allahu akbar'

  23-08-2016 19:44
  
  ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The FBI is investigating a stabbing in Virginia in which the suspect shouted "Allahu akbar" while attacking a man and woman.
  
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• Rain likely in Tulsa area today; chances throughout week forecast

  23-08-2016 19:38
  
  As of noon, Tulsa has not recorded any rainfall today. As of Monday, Tulsa recorded 2.15 inches of rain this month. A majority of this rainfall, 2.01 inches, recorded on Aug. 6.
  
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