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• Court rules against CarMax in fight over vehicle inspections

  20-10-2016 23:46
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court in San Francisco says used car retailer CarMax must tell buyers in California the condition of individual vehicle components it inspects.
  
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• Person Of Interest Identified In Tulsa Shooting Death

  20-10-2016 23:42
  
  Tulsa Police say they've identified a person of interest in the shooting death of a man Wednesday afternoon. 
  
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• Emergency Responders Test Communication Equipment At Tulsa Fairgrounds

  20-10-2016 23:40
  
  A natural or man-made disaster can happen at any time, and communication is important. Thursday, emergency responders met in Tulsa to test their communication systems.
  
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• The Latest: Firefighter thrown 20 feet by gas explosion

  20-10-2016 23:39
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on a gas explosion in a popular Portland, Oregon, shopping district (all times local):
  
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• US service member killed by roadside bomb in northern Iraq

  20-10-2016 23:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. military member assisting Iraqi forces in their push to retake Mosul was killed by a roadside bomb Thursday, marking the first American combat casualty in the campaign to oust
  
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• Online eye exam company sues South Carolina over ban

  20-10-2016 23:35
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A company that provides prescriptions for glasses and contacts using online exams filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a South Carolina law banning the practice.
  
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• Southern California schools cope with heat from gusty winds

  20-10-2016 23:28
  
  WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — Southern California was slammed with the second day of a heat wave Thursday that raised the risk of wildfires and left many schoolchildren to sweat it out in aging classroom
  
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• TPD: Man Shot Walking To Convenience Store; Police Searching For Shooter

  20-10-2016 23:11
  
  Tulsa police are looking for the gunman who shot a man as he was walking to a convenience store Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Oklahoma leads nation in deepest cuts to school funding for third straight year

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  After adjusting for inflation, analysts found that Oklahoma’s state aid to schools is 26.9 percent less for the current fiscal year than it was in 2008 — and that the margin between Oklahoma and the second-worst Alabama has nearly doubled in the past year to 12.7 percentage points.
  
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• US parks director: More worker sex harassment cases likely

  20-10-2016 22:58
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The outgoing director of the National Park Service says the agency must attract younger and more racially diverse visitors to the areas it manages and will probably uncover more ca
  
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• UK Defense secretary: Our military is hacking Islamic State

  20-10-2016 22:57
  
  LONDON (AP) — U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Thursday that Britain's military is launching cyberattacks against the Islamic State group in support of the offensive on the Iraqi city of Mos
  
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• Police investigate shooting at west Tulsa apartment complex

  20-10-2016 22:42
  
  Officers responded to a call at 2:30 p.m. of shots fired at Western Pines Apartments, 2409 S. Maybelle Ave. The unidentified male victim had been taken to the hospital in a personal vehicle before officers arrived.
  
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• Woman wrote about police killings before officer killed her

  20-10-2016 22:35
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a searing, eloquent essay on living with schizophrenia, Deborah Danner agonized over the deaths of mentally ill people like her at the hands of police.
  
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• Deputies arrest paralyzed man who won $23 million verdict

  20-10-2016 22:29
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A man who won a $23 million lawsuit against a Florida sheriff's office this year after being shot by a deputy and paralyzed has been arrested on charges that he sold heroi
  
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• Donors pour record $450 million into California initiatives

  20-10-2016 22:27
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Political donors have spent a record $450 million to support and oppose 17 November ballot initiatives in California, beating the state's own record for the most spent on pro
  
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• The Latest: No talks underway with striking professors

  20-10-2016 22:24
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on strike at 14 state universities in Pennsylvania (all times local):
  
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• Behind The Technology Designed To Prevent Voter Fraud

  20-10-2016 22:23
  
  Many states and the District of Columbia work with ERIC to compare and analyze data across voter and motor vehicle registrations, US Postal Service addresses and Social Security death records.
  
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• France warns UK premier of tough time ahead in Brexit talks

  20-10-2016 21:54
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — France warned Britain at the start of a European Union summit on Thursday that it would face a tough, unyielding opponent if it sought too many concessions during its negotiations to l
  
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• Half a year after 8 relatives killed, no answers or arrests

  20-10-2016 21:50
  
  PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Six months after someone shot eight members of an extended family to death in their homes, surviving relatives are still waiting — for an explanation, for an arrest, for a hint of
  
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• Daniel Holtzclaw Asks For Another Extension To File His Appeal

  20-10-2016 21:45
  
  Court documents show Daniel Holtzclaw has asked for another extension to file his appeal on Thursday. 
  
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• The Latest: Gore camp says 2000 and Trump aren't comparable

  20-10-2016 21:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Rolling Stone reporter pressed about errors in rape story

  20-10-2016 21:07
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The author of a now-retracted Rolling Stone article about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia on Thursday acknowledged Thursday that she made mistakes while re
  
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• Louisiana attorney general challenges LGBT-rights order

  20-10-2016 21:04
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's Republican attorney general asked a judge Thursday to block the Democratic governor's order banning discrimination in state government against LGBT people, in an es
  
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• The Latest: Catholic leader in Kansas criticizes Kaine

  20-10-2016 21:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Wisconsin man pleads guilty to trying to join extremists

  20-10-2016 20:51
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to trying to join the Islamic State group.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Watchdog says EPA delayed Flint emergency order

  20-10-2016 20:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency had sufficient authority and information to issue an emergency order to protect residents of Flint, Michigan, from lead-contaminated water as earl
  
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• Hacked emails: Clinton pushed for charity meeting in Morocco

  20-10-2016 20:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hacked emails reveal internal disagreement among top aides to Hillary Clinton about her determination to hold a Clinton Foundation summit in Morocco that later drew attention over it
  
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• Oklahoma State To Break Ground On New Undergrad Lab Building

  20-10-2016 20:46
  
  Oklahoma State University will break ground on a new laboratory building that's funded in part by an anonymous donation of $1 million.
  
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• Obama: Health care law 'worked,' says improvements needed

  20-10-2016 20:45
  
  MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his namesake health care program, long a target of Republicans and recently criticized by some Democrats, saying millions of Americans "now kno
  
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• Trump's day-after: I'll accept election results _ if I win

  20-10-2016 20:41
  
  DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump kept floating the possibility Thursday that he'll challenge the results of the presidential election if there's a "questionable result," while teasingly promising to
  
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• Union asks court to reverse Wal-Mart trespassing order

  20-10-2016 20:40
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A labor union that has demonstrated against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. asked the Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday to reverse a judge's decision barring it from entering the retail gi
  
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• Grandparents sue child protection agency over sex abuse

  20-10-2016 20:40
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's child protection agency is being sued over allegations it allowed a couple to sexually assault their 4-year-old and 18-month-old daughters after the girls were pla
  
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• Lawmakers demand answers on leukemia drug price hikes

  20-10-2016 20:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top lawmakers on Thursday demanded information from a drug company that has raised prices on a leukemia drug, calling increases of tens of thousands of dollars a sign the company
  
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• Virginia voter-registration deadline extended through Friday

  20-10-2016 20:37
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has granted a brief extension of Virginia's voter-registration deadline after heavy demand prevented some voters from registering online.
  
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• Conviction of bin Laden assistant is upheld on appeal

  20-10-2016 20:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former personal assistant, but the ruling did little to settle a simmering dispute over the limits of p
  
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• Biggest Meteor Shower Of Year To Peak Early Friday

  20-10-2016 20:28
  
  Along with the Geminids in December and the Perseids in August, the most reliable annual display of “shooting stars” is the Orionid meteor shower this month, according to Space.com. 
  
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• GOP lawmakers dispute Trump, will accept election results

  20-10-2016 20:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fellow Republicans on Thursday condemned Donald Trump's refusal to agree to accept the outcome of the election. Even supporters distanced themselves, warning that Trump's stance coul
  
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• Bye, Bao Bao! Later, Mei Lun and Mei Huan! Pandas leaving US

  20-10-2016 20:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The panda population in the United States is dropping by three.
  
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• Obama urges young adults to sign up for health care

  20-10-2016 20:22
  
  MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama is promoting his health overhaul by saying that never in U.S. history has the uninsured rate been lower than it is today.
  
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• U.S. Soldier Dies Of Injuries From Iraq Bombing

  20-10-2016 20:20
  
  The U.S. military says an American soldier has died from wounds sustained in a bombing in northern Iraq. 
  
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• New York police find remains of a fifth Long Island teenager

  20-10-2016 20:18
  
  BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — For the fifth time since September, police have discovered the remains of a dead teenager in a suburban Long Island community plagued by gang violence.
  
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• Biggest Meteor Shower To Peak Early Friday

  20-10-2016 20:18
  
  Along with the Geminids in December and the Perseids in August, the most reliable annual display of “shooting stars” is the Orionid meteor shower this month, according to Space.com. 
  
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• Professors strike a second day, disrupting 100,000 students

  20-10-2016 20:05
  
  More than 100,000 state university students in Pennsylvania were told Thursday to stay at school, as striking professors returned to picket lines on 14 campuses for a second day and their union pleade
  
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• Kansas man gets probation in octopus-in-throat case

  20-10-2016 20:04
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A southern Kansas man who admitted to endangering a child after a 2-year-old boy in his care ended up with an octopus lodged in his throat has been sentenced to two years of proba
  
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• No record, but debate viewership likely up over last one

  20-10-2016 19:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The third presidential debate appears likely to land between the record-setting first match between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and the second in terms of the number of Americans
  
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• US: Ex-contractor committed 'breathtaking' theft of secrets

  20-10-2016 19:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a former National Security Agency contractor's theft of top secret information was "breathtaking" in its scope.
  
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• For first lady, Trump is he who shall remain nameless

  20-10-2016 19:32
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama has emerged as perhaps the most effective Donald Trump critic in the Democrats' lineup, and she's done it without ever uttering two key words: Donald Trump.
  
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• Agencies Test Communication Techniques For Disaster Preparedness

  20-10-2016 19:14
  
  About 12 local, state and tribal agencies attended the disaster training and many brought out the large command centers that are used when Oklahoma is hit with major devastation.
  
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