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• Supporters of medical marijuana state question criticize AG Scott Pruitt's rewrite of ballot title

  25-08-2016 23:58
  
  "We will protest it," said Chip Paul, a spokesman for Oklahomans for Health. "It keeps us off the ballot in November, and that is what was probably intended."
  
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• The Latest: Weather Service confirms 7 Indiana tornadoes

  25-08-2016 23:56
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on tornadoes that touched down in Indiana and Ohio (all times local):
  
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• Correction: Missing Ship story

  25-08-2016 23:51
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — In a story Aug. 24 about new information recovered from the sunken freighter El Faro's black box, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the captain ordered the crew
  
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• 2 nuns found slain in Mississippi home, their vehicle gone

  25-08-2016 23:42
  
  DURANT, Miss. (AP) — Two nuns who worked as nurses and helped the poor in rural Mississippi were found slain in their home, and there were signs of a break-in and their vehicle was missing, officials
  
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• The Latest: Kaine says Trump can't be trusted on immigration

  25-08-2016 23:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• New Mexico: Brutal killing of girl detailed by authorities

  25-08-2016 23:28
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — On the day Victoria Martens was going to celebrate her 10th birthday, she was found dead in her family's apartment by Albuquerque police officers, her dismembered remains wrap
  
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• 4 malnourished Hawaiian monk seals taken to hospital

  25-08-2016 23:28
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Four malnourished Hawaiian monk seals have been taken from remote atolls to a Big Island hospital for the endangered animals to be fed fish and fluids to boost their weight, officials
  
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• Judge: NY ex-Assembly speaker can remain free during appeal

  25-08-2016 23:23
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can remain free while he appeals his conviction and 12-year prison sentence, a judge ruled Thursday as she concluded that an appeals cou
  
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• The Latest: 2 nuns slain in Mississippi, details unclear

  25-08-2016 23:22
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the slayings of two Catholic nuns in Mississippi (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Central Idaho wildfire expands in remote area

  25-08-2016 23:21
  
  YREKA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local):
  
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• NASA nears the end of its splashdown tests for Mars craft

  25-08-2016 23:21
  
  HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — NASA has conducted the second to last splashdown test for its Orion spacecraft as the agency prepares to eventually send humans to Mars.
  
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• BA Man Donates Bus To School After Buses Stolen, Burned

  25-08-2016 23:14
  
  The Twin Hills school district is getting good news after finding two stolen school buses torched.
  
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• Yosemite, and President Obama, head into virtual reality

  25-08-2016 23:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a new project with National Geographic, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to project himself into virtual reality — in this case, a 360-degree representation of
  
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• The Latest: Health department has advice on post-flood mold

  25-08-2016 23:08
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on Louisiana flooding (all times local):
  
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• When touring disasters, politicians weigh image, distraction

  25-08-2016 23:07
  
  KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's decision to leave the presidential campaign trail to tour tornado damage at home underscores the political perils of not showing up for disasters.
  
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• Climate change taking toll on American pika's Western lands

  25-08-2016 23:02
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Populations of a small rabbit-like animal known as the American pika are vanishing in many mountainous areas of the West as climate change alters its habitat, according to findin
  
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• The Latest: City: Harassment suit vs. mayor 'political ploy'

  25-08-2016 23:01
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on a sexual harassment suit filed against the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (all times local):
  
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• City's code enforcement officials executing plan to cut down backlog

  25-08-2016 23:00
  
  The code enforcers are in charge of identifying violations and then going through an abatement process if homeowners or business owners don't address the issues.
  
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• Mother arrested on allegations of child abuse after telling police she, her children were held captive for months

  25-08-2016 22:59
  
  A mother who accused two adults of locking her and her three children in a Stillwater apartment and physically abusing them was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of child abuse in addition with the two
  
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• Judge: Lizard, Illuminati beliefs mean terror suspect unfit

  25-08-2016 22:57
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago terrorism suspect charged with attempting to bomb a downtown bar sincerely believes that fantastical lizards, Freemasons and assorted other shadowy figures are out to
  
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• GOP governor: Most drug dealers arrested are black, Hispanic

  25-08-2016 22:09
  
  NORTH BERWICK, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is being accused again of making racially insensitive comments, this time by saying photos he's collected in a binder of drug dealers arrested i
  
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• ITT Tech banned from taking new students with federal aid

  25-08-2016 22:06
  
  The U.S. Department of Education is banning the for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services from enrolling new students who use federal financial aid.
  
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• The Latest: Turkish artillery strikes Syrian Kurdish militia

  25-08-2016 22:04
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war, following Turkish ground forces' incursion (all times local):
  
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• Secret Service agent who protected LBJ dies in Texas

  25-08-2016 21:58
  
  FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) — Jim Hardin, a Secret Service agent who protected President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family during and after their White House years, has died in Texas. He was 80.
  
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• Preliminary Hearing Set For Tulsa Dentist Charged In Child’s Death

  25-08-2016 21:56
  
  A preliminary hearing has been set for a Tulsa dentist charged with murder in the death of an Oklahoma City child.
  
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• Accidental overdoses killed 8 people a day in Ohio last year

  25-08-2016 21:56
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl again rose sharply and pushed t
  
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• 2 men in Nevada standoff case plead guilty in federal court

  25-08-2016 21:52
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty in Las Vegas to federal charges in an armed confrontation with U.S. officials over grazing rights near cattleman Cliven Bundy's ranch.
  
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• Gov sees flooded subdivision, SW city saved by sandbag wall

  25-08-2016 21:48
  
  LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards flew across south Louisiana Thursday, surveying flood damage from a helicopter and talking with people in a city that flooded and in one where a heroic ef
  
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• Man Suspected Of Impersonating Tulsa County Deputy

  25-08-2016 21:47
  
  Tulsa County Sheriff's Office released photos of a man they said impersonated a deputy to a woman at a Tulsa QuikTrip Thursday morning. 
  
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• Activists asking if police will be charged in sex scandal

  25-08-2016 21:47
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Activists and relatives of a teenage woman at the center of a San Francisco Bay Area police sex scandal say they want to know if any of the more than two dozen law enforcement o
  
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• The Latest: Clinton pushes back on health rumors

  25-08-2016 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Park Service marks centennial with new citizens, monument

  25-08-2016 21:39
  
  The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday on Thursday with events across the U.S. including the creation of a giant, living version of its emblem in Washington, D.C., a naturalizatio
  
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• Nonbelievers sue over Pennsylvania House's opening prayers

  25-08-2016 21:35
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A group of people who don't believe in God filed a federal lawsuit Thursday that seeks to change how prayers are handled before sessions of the Pennsylvania House of Representat
  
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• Turkey sends more tanks to Syria, insists on Kurdish retreat

  25-08-2016 21:33
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey sent more tanks into northern Syria on Thursday and gave Syrian Kurdish forces a week to scale back their presence near the Turkish border, a day after it launched a U.S.-
  
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• The Latest: Venice film fest cancels gala dinner after quake

  25-08-2016 21:32
  
  AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Friends recall slain New Mexico girl as friendly

  25-08-2016 21:32
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of a 10-year-old New Mexico girl (all times local):
  
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• Assistant: Mississippi mayor fired me when I ended affair

  25-08-2016 21:31
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former executive assistant is suing the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, saying she had an affair with him and then was fired when she ended the relationship.
  
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• US warship fires warning shots at Iranian boats

  25-08-2016 21:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a U.S. Navy ship has fired three warning shots toward an Iranian boat that was approaching another American ship head on in the North Arabian Gulf.
  
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• Court: Michigan sex offender rules cannot be retroactive

  25-08-2016 21:16
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A federal appeals court says changes to Michigan's sex offender registry rules cannot be applied retroactively to thousands of sex offenders.
  
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• Brazilian senators blast each other as Rousseff trial starts

  25-08-2016 21:08
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's Senate on Thursday began deliberating whether to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the final step in a leadership fight that has paralyzed Congres
  
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• Duke University files $9.9 million claim on McClendon estate

  25-08-2016 21:02
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Duke University has filed a $9.9 million claim against the estate of former Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon for pledges the Duke alumnus made that the university says
  
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• Walgreens clinics run by SSM to include birth control

  25-08-2016 20:51
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nonprofit Catholic organization SSM Health will provide birth control pills at the 26 clinics inside St. Louis-area Walgreens stores that it began operating Thursday, an SSM spoke
  
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• Tulsa Murder Victim's Mother Gives Thanks For World-Wide

  25-08-2016 20:26
  Haifa Jabara, the mother of slain Tulsan Khalid Jabara, published a statement on the death of her son on her Facebook page Thursday. Stanley Majors, charged in the death of his neighbor, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday.
  
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• Tulsa Murder Victim's Mother Gives Thanks For World-Wide Support

  25-08-2016 20:16
  
  Haifa Jabara, the mother of slain Tulsan Khalid Jabara, published a statement on the death of her son on her Facebook page Thursday. 
  
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• DOJ: Vet's Purple Heart lies cost government $752,000

  25-08-2016 20:06
  
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Federal prosecutors now say a former soldier who lied his way to a Purple Heart by faking injuries from the Iraq war cheated Washington state and the federal government out of mor
  
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• Silver Alert Issued For Elderly Cherokee County Man

  25-08-2016 20:05
  
  The Cherokee County Sheriff's has issued a Silver Alert for a elderly Park Hill man. 
  
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• Police officers say Taco Bell employee refused to serve them

  25-08-2016 19:54
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five police officers in Kentucky say a Taco Bell employee refused to serve them and that kitchen workers talked about wanting to "mess with them."
  
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• Rebels, residents to evacuate long-besieged Damascus suburb

  25-08-2016 19:53
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — After four years of grueling bombardment and crippling siege, the remaining residents and rebels of a Damascus suburb agreed to surrender and evacuate under the terms of an agreement rea
  
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• 2 charged in death of 15-year-old boy who shielded others

  25-08-2016 19:52
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee prosecutor says two men are charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy who shielded two girls from the gunfire.
  
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• Police: Father holding son hostage fatally shot by officer

  25-08-2016 19:51
  
  SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer fatally shot a man holding his teenage son hostage in Tennessee.
  
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