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• NFL Tries To Tackle Lack Of Athletic Trainers At Oklahoma Schools

  12-12-2016 23:55
  
  If you're a parent of a kid who plays sports, there's always the fear that they could get hurt, but Oklahoma's children have less access to athletic trainers who can help prevent those injuries than anywhere else in the nation. 
  
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• Italy's new government looks much like just-ended one

  12-12-2016 23:37
  
  ROME (AP) — Italy's latest government was formed and rapidly sworn in Monday, a center-left coalition headed by new Premier Paolo Gentiloni and strikingly similar in makeup to the just-ended one that
  
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• The Latest: Melania Trump attends hearing in defamation suit

  12-12-2016 23:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Accreditor of for-profit colleges loses appeal to stay alive

  12-12-2016 23:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal education officials are standing by their decision to cut ties with the nation's largest accreditor of for-profit colleges — a ruling that will bar hundreds of schools from p
  
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• Recount efforts end: Trump wins in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania

  12-12-2016 23:18
  
  Presidential election recount efforts came to an end Monday in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with both states certifying Republican Donald Trump as the winner in contests that helped put him over the to
  
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• Surge in drug-affected newborns driven by rural opioid use

  12-12-2016 23:17
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A surge in U.S infants born with symptoms of withdrawal from heroin or strong prescription painkillers is driven largely by rising drug use among women in rural areas, a new study found
  
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• Iowa State president apologizes, reimburses for more flights

  12-12-2016 23:11
  
  ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University President Steven Leath apologized Monday for using university airplanes for some personal trips and said he had paid back the school for additional flights be
  
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• Tulsa Police Search For Missing, Endangered Woman

  12-12-2016 23:01
  
  TPD said Samantha Puckett has not had contact with her family since November 7, 2016, and her family said her absence is "out of character and her family fears for her safety."
  
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• Suspect in Egypt chapel bombing had 2014 run-in with police

  12-12-2016 22:59
  
  CAIRO — The young man suspected of blowing himself up inside a Cairo chapel during Sunday Mass, killing at least 25 people, had been arrested and beaten by police two years ago after allegedly taking
  
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• Funeral Information Released For BA Officer Killed In Motorcycle Crash

  12-12-2016 22:51
  
  Funeral information has been released for the off-duty Broken Arrow police officer who was killed in a motorcycle crash Saturday.
  
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• Former head of officers' group gets prison term for fraud

  12-12-2016 22:51
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police sergeant has been ordered to spend a year and a day in federal prison for stealing more than $80,000 from the organization for black police officers that he
  
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• US still cutting ties with for-profit college accreditor

  12-12-2016 22:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary John B. King Jr. has upheld his department's decision to cut ties with the nation's largest accreditor of for-profit colleges.
  
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• Colombia's president calls for new approach to drugs war

  12-12-2016 22:48
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Colombia's president has reiterated a call for a new approach in the drug war and cautioned that countries won't succeed alone.
  
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• Conservatives win Macedonian election, need partner to rule

  12-12-2016 22:47
  
  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's dominant conservative coalition has won a narrow victory over the main opposition Social Democrats in early national elections, although without enough seats in pa
  
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• Mary-less Nativity: 'Joseph Doesn't Want to be a Single Dad'

  12-12-2016 22:46
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The owners of a New Hampshire Nativity scene have a message for whoever stole Mary from their yard last week.
  
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• Judge to review redacted records from Fallin, Department of Public Safety

  12-12-2016 22:42
  
  The review will determine whether the governor’s office and DPS complied with an Open Records Act for emails related to two executions.
  
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• Public funeral arrangements planned for Broken Arrow officer who died in crash

  12-12-2016 22:33
  
  Eugene Orr's funeral will be at 2 p.m. on Thursday at The Church at Battlecreek, 3025 North Aspen Ave., in Broken Arrow.
  
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• Tulsa fifth-graders learn about Holocaust, prepare food from recipes shared by survivors

  12-12-2016 22:30
  
  Stories and recipes compiled in the book "Miracles and Meals" helped the students from Disney Elementary School to learn about the history and survivors while making food at the Jewish Federation of Tulsa.
  
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• Trump's Wisconsin Victory Secure After Recount

  12-12-2016 22:21
  
  Republican Donald Trump's victory in Wisconsin has been reaffirmed following a presidential recount that showed him defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes.
  
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• Trump ups US ante on Taiwan, but China has leverage too

  12-12-2016 22:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump sounds ready to use U.S. policy toward Taiwan as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from China, but both of the world powers could play at that gam
  
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• Obama to archive torture report, declassify after 12 years

  12-12-2016 22:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday turned down a request from some senators to declassify a Senate report documenting the CIA's harsh treatment of detainees after 9/11.
  
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• First lady: Skiing does for her what golf does for president

  12-12-2016 22:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says skiing does for her what golf does for President Barack Obama.
  
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• Judge: No deposition from state official in climate case

  12-12-2016 22:15
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas reversed course on Monday and canceled a scheduled deposition from a Massachusetts official who is looking into whether Exxon Mobil misled the public about the i
  
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• The Latest: Trump's Wisconsin victory secure after recount

  12-12-2016 22:13
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the presidential recount (all times local):
  
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• Law enforcement honors state trooper killed by wild driver

  12-12-2016 22:02
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country came to Atlantic City on Monday to pay their final respects to a state trooper killed in a crash.
  
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• Syria rebels retreat in Aleppo in 'terrifying' collapse

  12-12-2016 21:55
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels retreated from former strongholds in eastern Aleppo in a "terrifying" collapse Monday, holding onto a small sliver of territory packed with fighters and thousands of civili
  
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• Prosecutor: Woman got welfare benefits for nonexistent kids

  12-12-2016 21:53
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh woman has been jailed on charges she collected state welfare benefits for three children who don't exist, including a period when she was living outside Pennsylvania.
  
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• Supreme Court leaves $1B NFL concussion settlement in place

  12-12-2016 21:50
  
  The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the final two challenges to the estimated $1 billion settlement between the NFL and thousands of its former players who have been diagnosed with brain injuries lin
  
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• US marshals serving warrant kill attempted murder suspect

  12-12-2016 21:46
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a federal marshal trying to serve a warrant has shot and killed an armed attempted murder suspect in Philadelphia.
  
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• Trump's lawyers intervene in lawsuit to free electors

  12-12-2016 21:44
  
  DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump on Monday filed documents to become involved in a lawsuit by two Democratic electors trying to be freed of Colorado's requirement that they vote
  
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• 6 months later, 49 killed at Pulse are remembered in Orlando

  12-12-2016 21:35
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Relatives, friends and survivors of the Orlando nightclub massacre stood outside Pulse where candles were lit behind stars with the names of each of the 49 patrons who were killed
  
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• Montana avalanche buries Idaho skier, killing him

  12-12-2016 21:11
  
  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — An avalanche in southwestern Montana killed a skier over the weekend.
  
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• Man sentenced in killing jobless son, wife he feared got HIV

  12-12-2016 21:02
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who stabbed his wife and adult son to death in 2013 because he said he feared giving her HIV after having sex with prostitutes and worried what his jobless son would make
  
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• Juror Facebook posts could impact $2 million jury verdict

  12-12-2016 21:00
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A juror's Facebook posts during a federal civil rights trial could jeopardize a $2 million verdict awarded to a man who said he was illegally strip-searched by a Milwaukee police offi
  
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• Historians reach deal for Revolutionary War battlefield

  12-12-2016 21:00
  
  PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Historical activists have reached an agreement to save a portion of a Revolutionary War battlefield in New Jersey from development.
  
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• Trump targets F-35, but aircraft means jobs in 45 states

  12-12-2016 20:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to corral the "out of control" cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But congressional Republicans and Democrats, aware of the tens of thousan
  
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• Bison-Themed Vanity License Plate Could Be Available Soon

  12-12-2016 20:49
  
  A bison-themed vanity plate for Oklahoma vehicles is just 100 pre-orders away from becoming a reality. 
  
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• Federal budget deficit jumps to $136.7 billion in November

  12-12-2016 20:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government's deficit jumped sharply in November but for the first two months of the budget year is running 10 percent lower than a year ago.
  
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• The Latest: White House denies framing Russia for hacking

  12-12-2016 20:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• 2 charged in securities fraud plot netting $26M illegally

  12-12-2016 20:41
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey men have been charged with running a securities fraud scheme that investigators say netted them more than $26 million in illegal profits.
  
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• Trump's criticism of Russia hacking claim could haunt him

  12-12-2016 20:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is underscoring his doubts about the conclusion by U.S. intelligence that Russia sought through hacking to disrupt this year's election, renewing his skepticism Monday a
  
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• The Latest: Firearms expert matches 70 bullets to Roof's gun

  12-12-2016 20:37
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest in the federal trial of a man accused of gunning down nine South Carolina church members during Bible study (all times local):
  
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• Candidate for Virginia governor giving away AR-15 rifle

  12-12-2016 20:35
  
  MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Virginia governor is giving away an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as part of his campaign.
  
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• Quadruple homicide trial: Wife, daughter testify about shell casings

  12-12-2016 20:30
  
  Cedric Poore is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of 23-year-old twin sisters Rebeika Powell and Kayetie Powell Melchor; Misty Nunley, 33; and Julie Jackson, 55, at Powell’s apartment at Fairmont Terrace near 61st Street and Peoria Avenue.
  
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• Former Sooner Jimbo Elrod Dies In Turner Turnpike Wreck

  12-12-2016 20:15
  
  Former University of Oklahoma football player Jimbo Elrod died early Monday in a wreck on the Turner Turnpike. 
  
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• 'Handshake' Sculpture Symbolizes New Tulsa City-County Partnership

  12-12-2016 20:04
  
  Tulsa County Commissioners met briefly Monday morning with new Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum in what both county and city leaders describe as a new era in government cooperation.  
  
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• IMF chief Lagarde proclaims innocence in French payout case

  12-12-2016 19:52
  
  PARIS (AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde proclaimed her innocence in a Paris court Monday at the start of her trial on accusations of negligence for allowing a huge payout to a
  
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• AP Interview: Malta offers diplomatic hand to Turkey

  12-12-2016 19:48
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The nation that will take on the European Union presidency at the end of the month held out a diplomatic hand to Turkey on Monday and insisted the bloc needed to "give some positive si
  
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• New Italian coalition government to be sworn in

  12-12-2016 19:46
  
  ROME (AP) — Italian Premier-designate Paolo Gentiloni succeeded in forming a new government on Monday, keeping key ministers from the coalition of fellow Democrat Matteo Renzi, who resigned last week.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton camp backs briefing Electoral College

  12-12-2016 19:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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