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• AP Explains: Etan Patz, missing boy who fueled movement

  19-10-2016 23:59
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children's movement. Six-year-old Etan was one of the first children whose disappearance was publicized in what b
  
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• Former Miss Oklahoma Never Saw Inappropriate Behavior From Trump

  19-10-2016 23:58
  
  A former Miss Oklahoma is speaking out about the sexual misconduct allegations against Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.
  
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• Iron Gate food pantry details plans for new downtown facility, seeks zoning approval

  19-10-2016 23:45
  
  It would move the facility only a couple of blocks from its current location of nearly 40 years at Fifth Street and Cincinnati Avenue. Executive Director Connie Cronley said the need for zoning approval came as a recent surprise to Iron Gate officials, who expect to get the go-ahead when the Board of Adjustment meets Tuesday.
  
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• Hawaii lawmakers hold public meeting on foreign fishermen

  19-10-2016 23:40
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A group of Hawaii lawmakers is holding a public meeting to discuss conditions among the Hawaii longline fishing fleet.
  
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• Tulsa Barred Owl Supporters Upset With Duplex Demolition

  19-10-2016 23:39
  
  Crews are demolishing a barred owl refuge area near 36th Place and New Haven to build a parking lot for a nearby church. It's a move meeting opposition from some neighbors.
  
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• Zika testing urged for all pregnant women in Florida county

  19-10-2016 23:37
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are now recommending Zika testing for all pregnant women who recently spent time in Florida's Miami-Dade County.
  
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• Experts gives temperature measures in hot car death case

  19-10-2016 23:37
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A heat expert testified that temperatures peaked around 125 degrees inside the SUV where 22-month-old Cooper Harris died after being left there all day in June 2014.
  
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• Southern states see efforts to delay vote-related deadlines

  19-10-2016 23:36
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Some North Carolina voters who want to expand early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state lost their case before a federal appeals court Wednesday, and in Georgi
  
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• Gas explosion rocks Oregon shopping district, injuring 8

  19-10-2016 23:34
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A powerful natural gas explosion rocked a busy Portland, Oregon, shopping district Wednesday, injuring eight people and igniting a fire that sent a huge plume of smoke over the h
  
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• Former officer's defense wins appeal called 'attorney gamesmanship' by judge; murder trial still set for Oct. 31

  19-10-2016 23:30
  
  The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled the defense for former Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler, accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of his daughter's boyfriend, does not have to provide copies of interviews his defense conducted with anyone his attorney has not listed as a defense witness.
  
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• Alaska man charged in shooting of Fairbanks police officer

  19-10-2016 23:29
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The 29-year-old man charged with opening fire on an Alaska police officer has a lengthy criminal history in Anchorage and Fairbanks tied to alcohol consumption but just one pr
  
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• Police respond to shooting call at apartments near 61st and Peoria

  19-10-2016 23:25
  
  Officers were called to the scene just after 4 p.m. Wednesday, but a dispatch operator could not confirm further details.
  
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• Indiana election official clarifies registration fraud probe

  19-10-2016 23:24
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's top elections official clarified Wednesday that many of the thousands of altered registration forms she flagged for potential voter fraud might just be residents rushing
  
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• Refuge occupier Bundy urges jurors to 'stand for freedom'

  19-10-2016 23:19
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — National wildlife refuge occupier Ryan Bundy twice referenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during his closing argument Wednesday, and he told jurors to "stand for freedom" and
  
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• Fund Set Up For Tulsa Man Killed In Motorcycle Crash

  19-10-2016 23:15
  
  Friends have set up a fund to support the family of a Tulsa man who died in a motorcycle wreck Sunday night.
  
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• Phoenix serial killer 911 calls disclosed in bid for leads

  19-10-2016 23:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police trying to catch a serial killer who has shot seven people dead and wounded two others have released 911 calls about two shootings in an effort to generate tips about the
  
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• Lawmakers: Russia's violation of nuke treaty has 'worsened'

  19-10-2016 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's violation of a key nuclear arms control treaty has become more egregious, two top Republican congressmen said in a letter released Wednesday that urged the Obama administrat
  
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• NASA: Jupiter spacecraft detects problem, turns off camera

  19-10-2016 23:02
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter has hit another snag.
  
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• Kim Johnson Flodin new Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma news editor

  19-10-2016 23:00
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Kim Johnson Flodin, a veteran photo-news journalist and editor at The Associated Press, has been named news editor for Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
  
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• VIEWERS' GUIDE: Mind games, closing arguments in Round 3

  19-10-2016 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was barely three weeks ago that Donald Trump opened the first presidential debate by asking, with faux deference, if it was OK to refer to his opponent as "Secretary Clinton."
  
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• Autopsy results revealed in death of Atlanta businesswoman

  19-10-2016 22:53
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A medical examiner says a bullet damaged several organs of a prominent Atlanta businesswoman who died from a gunshot wound to the back as she rode in a car near Piedmont Park.
  
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• Leaks put Assange at odds with Ecuador's warming up to US

  19-10-2016 22:51
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finding himself in open conflict with his Ecuadorean protectors as the group's latest dump targeting Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign r
  
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• The Latest: APNewsBreak: Derrick Rose thankful for verdict

  19-10-2016 22:49
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Derrick Rose rape lawsuit trial (all times local):
  
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• Chinese billionaire in UN bribery case asks to explore NYC

  19-10-2016 22:37
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese billionaire confined to a luxury Manhattan apartment while awaiting trial in a United Nations bribery case is asking a judge to let him explore New York City a little.
  
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• Man with deformed skull charged with arson, attempted murder

  19-10-2016 22:22
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Police say a 31-year-old man with a severely deformed skull faces arson and attempted first-degree murder charges.
  
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• Police identify motorcyclist killed in crash on U.S. 169

  19-10-2016 22:19
  
  Related story: Motorcyclist dies after crash on U.S. 169
  
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• Report: Misconduct at A&M campus led to animal mistreatment

  19-10-2016 22:16
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Infighting and poor oversight, including an instance of "profound neglect," contributed to the mistreatment of animals at a Texas A&M University campus, according to federal and univ
  
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• Tribe offers pipeline protesters a place to overwinter

  19-10-2016 22:11
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux's tribal council has voted to make tribal land available for those protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, though an organizer from another tribe says
  
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• UVa administrator: Rolling Stone apologies weren't enough

  19-10-2016 22:02
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia administrator who sued Rolling Stone magazine over its portrayal of her in a now-discredited story about a gang rape said Wednesday that the magazi
  
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• Outside debate arena, a buzz of activity by media, others

  19-10-2016 21:56
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hours before Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump meet for their third and final presidential debate, it was anything but quiet outside the Thomas & Mack Arena on
  
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• Man sentenced to 30 years for trying to aid Islamic State

  19-10-2016 21:44
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former California college student has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for trying to aid the Islamic State group.
  
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• Video: Dem activist bragged about disrupting Trump rallies

  19-10-2016 21:40
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Conservative activist James O'Keefe has released secretly recorded, selectively edited video footage that includes a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at rallies
  
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• NY mayor: Police shooting of mentally ill woman unacceptable

  19-10-2016 21:39
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A police sergeant has been stripped of his gun and badge in the aftermath of what officials on Wednesday labeled a preventable tragedy: the killing of a mentally ill, 66-year-old woman
  
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• The Latest: White House warns against post-election violence

  19-10-2016 21:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• European Mars lander's fate unclear, signs 'not good'

  19-10-2016 21:34
  
  DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — The European Space Agency lost contact with an experimental Mars probe shortly before its planned landing on the red planet Wednesday. Scientists said that wasn't a good sign
  
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• Fewer election observers from the Justice Dept at the polls

  19-10-2016 21:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials are warning that they will be dispatching fewer trained election observers in the wake of a Supreme Court opinion that gutted a key provision of the Voti
  
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• Bus crashes into fence in California, 15 people injured

  19-10-2016 21:31
  
  TRAVER, Calif. (AP) — A bus ran off the highway in Central California and crashed into a fence Wednesday, injuring 15 people who suffered what were described as minor injuries, authorities said Wednes
  
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• Woman found stabbed to death in north Tulsa

  19-10-2016 21:12
  
  A stabbing was reported at the Comanche Park Apartments Police responded just before 11 a.m. to the scene A woman was found stabbed to death A person of interest was found in a nearby unit; police are working to figure out the victim's relation to that person Officers say they have several people being questioned FOX23 has a reporter at the scene getting new information from investigators Check this story and FOX23 News at Noon for more information Download the FOX23 News app for breaking develo
  
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• The Latest: Man recalls gas explosion in Portland, Oregon

  19-10-2016 21:10
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on a gas explosion in a Portland, Oregon, business district (all times local):
  
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• Face to face one last time: Debate night for Clinton, Trump

  19-10-2016 21:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's long and acrimonious battle for the White House is speeding toward the end, with the candidates taking the debate stage Wednesday night for one fin
  
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• Chinese billionaire on UN case seeks relaxed bail conditions

  19-10-2016 21:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese billionaire confined to a luxury Manhattan apartment while awaiting trial in a United Nations bribery case is asking a judge to let him explore the city a little.
  
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• Ginnie Graham: Sweetness can be found in a drag queen's video with Tulsa woman

  19-10-2016 21:00
  
  Just when politics gets toxic, Tulsa resident Jeannie Glover provides a light of optimism and hope when she befriends a stranger, a New York drag queen filming a short project in Times Square.
  
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• Stalled Front May Trigger Showers, Storms Southeast Of Tulsa

  19-10-2016 20:59
  
  A cold front remains stalled out across northeastern Oklahoma very near the Tulsa metro Wednesday afternoon, leading to another afternoon of unseasonably warm and very humid weather.
  
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• Voting extension denied in NC; pending in Georgia, Virginia

  19-10-2016 20:55
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A group of North Carolina voters that wants to expand early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state lost its case before a federal appeals court Wednesday, while v
  
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• Researchers: Limits on drilling not enough to protect bird

  19-10-2016 20:52
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Oil and gas development in the Western U.S. could continue to cause sage grouse numbers to decline despite limits on drilling meant to protect the struggling bird species, accor
  
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• Spokesman: 2 firefighters, 2 others hurt in Oregon gas blast

  19-10-2016 20:51
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A powerful natural gas explosion that neighbors said felt like an earthquake rocked a busy Portland, Oregon, neighborhood on Wednesday, injuring two firefighters and two civilian
  
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• 3 sex-spread diseases hit another record high, CDC says

  19-10-2016 20:50
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Infections from three sexually spread diseases have hit another record high.
  
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• Mentally disabled teen freed; acquitted of terror charge

  19-10-2016 20:46
  
  PELL CITY, Ala. (AP) — A mentally disabled teenager who spent nearly a year in jail on a terrorism charge vowed "never to touch another computer again" after an Alabama judge found him not guilty and
  
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• Escaped Inmate Recaptured In Atoka

  19-10-2016 20:41
  
  Authorities at McLeod Correctional Center in Atoka captured a 40-year-old inmate who escaped sometime Tuesday evening.
  
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• Woman Convicted In Cancer Treatment Scheme Gets Probation, Ordered To Pay Restitution

  19-10-2016 20:34
  
  An Oklahoma woman convicted in a cancer treatment scheme will not serve prison time for defrauding cancer patients of more than a million dollars and giving them false hope that she'd cured them. 
  
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