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• No experience needed: Trump taps Carson for HUD secretary

  05-12-2016 23:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump chose retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, raising fresh concerns about the lack of experience som
  
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• Immigrant students seek place in mainstream high schools

  05-12-2016 23:53
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. appeals court must decide if older refugee students steered to an alternative Pennsylvania high school are getting a meaningful education or are simply being passed through
  
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• California lawmakers urge Trump on immigration

  05-12-2016 23:53
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democratic state lawmakers passed a resolution Monday urging President-elect Donald Trump not to pursue mass deportations and to uphold a program for young immigrants in the
  
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• Lawsuit Filed After Cushing Earthquake

  05-12-2016 23:40
  
  A group of Cushing-area citizens have filed a class action lawsuit against at least five energy companies following a November 6 earthquake that measured 5.0 magnitude.  
  
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• Top Gambian opposition leader, 18 others out of prison

  05-12-2016 23:36
  
  BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — A top Gambian opposition politician and 18 other protesters were released from prison after an appeals court granted them bail on Monday, just days after strongman ruler Yahya Ja
  
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• Sheriff: 16 in custody after reaching Florida by boat

  05-12-2016 23:35
  
  JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say more than a dozen people who appear to be from Colombia and Haiti are in custody after reaching Florida's Atlantic coast by boat.
  
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• OKC Mayor Addresses Trump’s Plan To Fix Infrastructure

  05-12-2016 23:32
  
  When Donald Trump takes office, he said improving the country's infrastructure will be on the top of his agenda. 
  
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• Police officer charged with slapping man dressed as bunny

  05-12-2016 23:26
  
  HOPATCONG, N.J. (AP) — A police officer accused of slapping a man who was wearing a bunny costume and was blowing an air horn inside a police station has been charged with assault.
  
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• Soot swept up: Business unharmed by wildfires set to reopen

  05-12-2016 23:24
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Chirping and beeping filled the air as Marion Paul fired up her Gatlinburg video arcade Monday, the first time she's seen her business since deadly wildfires set much of the c
  
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• Teachers, music lovers among those killed in warehouse fire

  05-12-2016 23:19
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Teachers, music lovers and the son of a sheriff's deputy were among those killed when a fire tore through a converted Oakland warehouse during a dance party.
  
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• House, Senate leaders reach deal on Calif. drought, Flint

  05-12-2016 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement on a bill to authorize $170 million for Flint, Michigan and other cities beleaguered by lead in drinking water, and to pr
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutors plan to retry police officer

  05-12-2016 23:16
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a fired South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist (all times local):
  
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• 2 people shot, killed in Okmulgee County over weekend; 3 arrested

  05-12-2016 23:15
  
  A 27-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle in Okmulgee from an apparent gunshot wound early Saturday. A Henryetta woman was pronounced dead at a local hospital after police officers reportedly found her with a gunshot wound to the face Saturday night.
  
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• Arctic Air, Dusting Of Snow Expected In NE Oklahoma Wednesday

  05-12-2016 23:13
  
  Snow accumulations, if any, will be light (generally a dusting) and confined to areas mainly northeast of Tulsa.
  
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• Capitol Hill Buzz: Passed, then Un-passed

  05-12-2016 23:12
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Can a bill be un-passed? The answer in the Senate is yes.
  
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• Judge: Prosecutors can use Bill Cosby's deposition at trial

  05-12-2016 23:02
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Damaging testimony that Bill Cosby gave in an accuser's lawsuit, including admissions that he gave young women drugs and alcohol before sex, can be used at his sex assault trial, a
  
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• Man sentenced in Capitol plot yells: 'Allah is in control!'

  05-12-2016 22:58
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge who voiced doubts about a man's remorse and commitment against jihadist violence Monday sentenced him to 30 years in prison for plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol, d
  
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• By accident or design, Trump signals tougher China policy

  05-12-2016 22:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether by accident or design, President-elect Donald Trump is signaling a tougher American policy toward China, sparking warnings from both the outgoing Obama administration and Bei
  
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• Two Arrested In Weekend Shooting Death Of Okmulgee Man

  05-12-2016 22:49
  
  Police have arrested two people in connection with the Saturday morning shooting death of a 27-year-old Okmulgee man.  
  
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• Report: Train carrying BMWs derails; 97 automobiles damaged

  05-12-2016 22:21
  
  JENKINSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a train carrying BMWs from an automaking plant in South Carolina has derailed and that 97 of the vehicles were damaged.
  
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• HUD nominee opposes programs that aided rise from poverty

  05-12-2016 22:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Though Ben Carson frequently touts his up-from-the-bootstraps life story, Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of Housing and Urban Development has voiced little empathy for those wh
  
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• Authorities: 2 dead in crash on snowy Michigan roadway

  05-12-2016 22:21
  
  PORTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say two people have died after the car they were riding in slid into the path of a pickup truck on a snowy southwestern Michigan roadway.
  
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• The Latest: GOP weighs adding Mattis provision to bill

  05-12-2016 22:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Judge: Prosecutors can use Cosby's deposition at trial

  05-12-2016 22:14
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that damaging testimony Bill Cosby gave in an accuser's lawsuit can be used at his criminal sex assault trial.
  
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• Mistrial declared in black motorist's shooting

  05-12-2016 22:11
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial Monday after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a former white police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black
  
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• Renzi told to stay put a bit more; foes press for vote

  05-12-2016 22:10
  
  ROME (AP) — Calls mounted rapidly Monday from populist and other opposition leaders for quick elections in Italy, seeking to capitalize on Premier Matteo Renzi's humiliating defeat in a referendum on
  
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• Corrections department fugitive arrested in Tulsa

  05-12-2016 22:09
  
  Agents arrested Joshua Ward on Friday after an anonymous tip led to his location. He was apprehended without incident at a bus stop, 3500 S Sheridan.
  
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• Owasso Company Now Recalling Nearly 2 Million Pounds Of Ready-To-Eat Chicken

  05-12-2016 21:57
  
  An Owasso-based company is expanding its recall of ready-to-eat chicken to nearly two million pounds.
  
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• The Latest: Michigan Republicans appealing recount order

  05-12-2016 21:48
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (all times local):
  
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• St. Louis-area businessman faces federal kidnapping charge

  05-12-2016 21:46
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis-area businessman and three other men will have a detention hearing Tuesday in federal court in St. Louis after being accused of kidnapping and beating a man over three day
  
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• Police won't know for days if officers fired fatal shot

  05-12-2016 21:43
  
  ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Police are awaiting ballistics tests to determine whether an officer or someone else fired the shot that killed a northern Indiana man.
  
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• The Latest: Mistrial declared in police officer murder trial

  05-12-2016 21:40
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a fired South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist (all times local):
  
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• Arctic Air, Dusting Of Snow Expected Wednesday

  05-12-2016 21:38
  
  Snow accumulations, if any, will be light (generally a dusting) and confined to areas mainly northeast of Tulsa.
  
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• Cops: Serial abductor broke into Ohio homes to kidnap girls

  05-12-2016 21:36
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland-area man accused of breaking into two homes and kidnapping and raping a girl and trying to abduct another within the past year scouted out his victims, authorities said Mo
  
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• 2 Russian nurses killed in rebel shelling of Syria's Aleppo

  05-12-2016 21:35
  
  ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Rebel shelling killed two Russian nurses and eight civilians Monday in Aleppo, and a Russian fighter jet crashed as it was returning to an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean af
  
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• New Tulsa Mayor, City Councilors Sworn In

  05-12-2016 21:32
  
  G.T. Bynum will be inaugurated as Tulsa's 40th mayor, and new councilors Vanessa Hall-Harper and Ben Kimbro will be sworn in.
  
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• Deputy dies when personal car goes into San Antonio sinkhole

  05-12-2016 21:31
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Officials say an off-duty sheriff's deputy has died and two other people hurt when two vehicles plunged into a water-filled sinkhole in San Antonio, Texas.
  
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• Winter menaces N. Dakota camp as pipeline protesters dig in

  05-12-2016 21:26
  
  CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large
  
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• White House: 9/11 law permits US attacks on extremists

  05-12-2016 21:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House shed new light Monday on the legal foundations for President Barack Obama's expansive use of U.S. military power to target extremists overseas, in a report that also
  
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• 58-Year-Old Man Killed In Broken Arrow Wreck

  05-12-2016 21:20
  
  Broken Arrow Police released the name of a man killed in a single-vehicle crash the night of December 3, 2016. 
  
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• Search for bodies in Oakland burned warehouse resumes; death toll grows to 36

  05-12-2016 21:18
  
  The fire erupted during a dance party late Friday night. The death toll has grown to 36 with more victims expected to be found in the rubble in the coming days.
  
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• Broken Arrow police identify man killed in weekend crash

  05-12-2016 21:18
  
  Prince Rios, 58, died after losing control of his vehicle, which crashed into a tree, on Saturday night, according to police.
  
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• Man convicted in son's hot-car death gets life, no parole

  05-12-2016 21:14
  
  MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A judge on Monday sentenced a Georgia man to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to d
  
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• Senate nears final votes on bill speeding federal drug OKs

  05-12-2016 21:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is set to remove the last hurdles to legislation bolstering disease research and simplifying the government's pathway for pharmaceutical and medical device approvals as Co
  
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• Prosecutors: Truck stop chiropractor falsified health exams

  05-12-2016 21:06
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities say they've charged a chiropractor operating out of an Atlanta truck stop with falsifying required medical exams for truckers.
  
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• Top US diplomat tells anxious allies: 'We're going to be OK'

  05-12-2016 21:03
  
  BERLIN (AP) — U.S. envoy John Kerry had a message for America's allies in Berlin, rattled by the recent political upheaval in Europe and the United States: "We're going to be OK."
  
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• Soot swept up: business untouched by wildfires set to reopen

  05-12-2016 21:00
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Businesses remained closed Monday in the fire-ravaged Tennessee community of Gatlinburg, but many were in cleanup mode in hopes of reopening to the public — possibly by midwee
  
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• No bail for 15-year-old charged with decapitating classmate

  05-12-2016 20:55
  
  LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy charged with killing a high school classmate whose headless body was found near a river said in a police report made public Monday that they had gone to smoke
  
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• Note from jury: Majority still undecided in Slager trial

  05-12-2016 20:51
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The jury remained undecided — but not deadlocked — on Monday in the murder trial of a white police officer charged with shooting a black motorist in South Carolina last year.
  
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• Yellowstone dam, fish bypass OK'd; court approval needed

  05-12-2016 20:47
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials have approved a $57 million dam and fish bypass on Montana's Yellowstone River but construction can't proceed until a judge signs off.
  
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