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• Paris officials charge first 4 suspects in Kardashian heist

  12-01-2017 23:59
  
  PARIS (AP) — French authorities have filed the first charges against four suspects in the armed jewelry heist of Kim Kardashian West, with more charges expected to follow, the Paris prosecutors' offic
  
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• Gov. Fallin Declares State Of Emergency Due To Approaching Ice Storm

  12-01-2017 23:57
  
  Gov. Mary Fallin has declared a state of emergency for all 77 Oklahoma counties in advance of a winter storm that's forecast to bring crippling ice accumulations and heavy rain to the state. 
  
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• With report on Chicago cops, questions about Trump approach

  12-01-2017 23:56
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Department of Justice is poised to release its report detailing the extent of civil rights violations committed by the Chicago Police Department, triggering negotiations that will p
  
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• Testimony by NY man's family may be key at terrorism trial

  12-01-2017 23:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The outcome of Manhattan's first Islamic State-related terrorism trial may hinge on the testimony of family members of a New York college student who died in Syria, a likelihood illust
  
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• Obama awards Biden Presidential Medal of Freedom

  12-01-2017 23:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden with the highest civilian honor Thursday, commemorating an "extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service."
  
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• Georgia gun store owner shoots, kills armed robbery suspect

  12-01-2017 23:49
  
  MABLETON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia gun store owner's quick reflexes may have saved his life when armed robbers came calling.
  
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• GOP leaders look to early health care bill, details vague

  12-01-2017 23:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Under mounting pressure from Donald Trump and rank-and-file Republicans, congressional leaders are talking increasingly about chiseling an early bill that dismantles President Barack
  
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• Plan offers 4 options for restoring grizzlies to Washington

  12-01-2017 23:47
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Grizzly bears once roamed the rugged landscape of the North Cascades in Washington state but few have been sighted in recent decades.
  
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• 3 charged in shooting deaths of 2 teenage brothers from Cuba

  12-01-2017 23:47
  
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Two men and a 17-year-old girl were charged with fatally shooting two Cuban-born teenage brothers in what police believe was an attempted robbery set up by the girl, authorities
  
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• The Latest: 3 charged with killing of 2 NY teenage brothers

  12-01-2017 23:42
  
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on fatal shooting of two teenage brothers (all times local):
  
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• Health Department Offers Power Outage Safety Tips

  12-01-2017 23:40
  
  The Oklahoma State Department of Health said it has some reminders about safe practices to prevent illness and injury.  
  
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• Trump plan to donate foreign hotel profits can't be checked

  12-01-2017 23:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a public relations win for the president-elect: Donald Trump's company says it will donate profits from any foreign governments that use his hotels. In practice, however, the pu
  
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• Lawmakers: Utility-scale wind farm poses security threat

  12-01-2017 23:31
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina legislators want the incoming Trump administration to shut down a nearly complete, $400 million wind farm they believe poses a national security threat because it's
  
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• Trump State pick irks Beijing, muddles policy on S China Sea

  12-01-2017 23:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's pick to lead the State Department has stoked confusion over the U.S.'s South China Sea policy by appearing to advocate a blockade of Chinese man-made islands.
  
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• Lawsuit faults Bureau of Indian Education schools

  12-01-2017 23:25
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A small, remote American Indian village in the scenic base of one of the most visited places on earth is at the center of a lawsuit that seeks to dramatically reform the condi
  
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• Official: Cyprus security talks break, resume after Jan. 18

  12-01-2017 23:23
  
  GENEVA (AP) — A Cyprus official says talks to resolve the security issues around the ethnically divided nation's hoped-for reunification are pausing and will resume in less than a week.
  
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• Tulsans Protest Possible Repeal Of Obamacare

  12-01-2017 22:09
  
  The first step towards repealing Obamacare is underway. 
  
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• Owasso Chiropractor And Wife Free Buck Stuck On Fence

  12-01-2017 21:57
  
  A young buck is running free again after getting some getting some help from an Owasso chiropractor and his wife.
  
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• The Latest: Lawmaker takes poll on attending inauguration

  12-01-2017 21:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on activities in Congress (all times EST):
  
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• Illinois man sues over his July 4 flag-burning arrest

  12-01-2017 21:30
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old central Illinois man who was arrested and detained after posting online pictures of himself burning an American flag has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have the state'
  
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• The Latest: Trump to appoint another Goldman Sachs executive

  12-01-2017 21:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Baltimore reaches agreement with US to reform policing

  12-01-2017 21:24
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore police department committed to a sweeping overhaul of its practices Thursday under a court-enforceable agreement with the federal government.
  
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• Hungarian reporter who kicked migrants gets probation

  12-01-2017 21:21
  
  SZEGED, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian camerawoman who was filmed kicking and possibly tripping migrants along the country's border with Serbia was sentenced Thursday to three years' probation for disor
  
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• Spain's envoy to UK resigns amid outcry over plane crash

  12-01-2017 21:18
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spain's ambassador to the United Kingdom has resigned amid increasing calls for him to be sacked over his handling of 75 deaths in a 2003 crash of a military jet.
  
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• US files trade complaint targeting China's aluminum industry

  12-01-2017 21:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration filed a trade complaint with the World Trade Organization on Thursday against China for allegedly "dumping" aluminum on the global market at artificially low
  
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• Senate decisively passes bill to let retired Gen. James Mattis run the Pentagon; Trump pick still must be confirmed

  12-01-2017 21:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate decisively passes bill to let retired Gen. James Mattis run the Pentagon; Trump pick still must be confirmed.
  
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• The good, bad and unknown about marijuana's health effects

  12-01-2017 21:11
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It can almost certainly ease chronic pain and might help some people sleep, but it may also raise the risk of getting schizophrenia and trigger heart attacks.
  
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• 6 kids presumed dead in house fire; Mom and 3 kids injured

  12-01-2017 21:06
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The search for bodies is expected to be slow at a fire-ravaged home in northeast Baltimore where six children were presumed dead, a fire official said Thursday. The children's mother
  
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• Airstrikes escalate despite Syria cease-fire

  12-01-2017 21:04
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Syria said Thursday that a cease-fire was "largely holding with some exceptions," as opposition activists reported a mounting number of government airstrikes, includin
  
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• US gov't accuses Fiat Chrysler of cheating on emissions

  12-01-2017 21:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government accused Fiat Chrysler on Thursday of failing to disclose software in some of its pickups and SUVs with diesel engines that allows them to emit more pollution than
  
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• Biden: Intel officials told us Trump allegations might leak

  12-01-2017 20:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that top intelligence leaders told him and President Barack Obama they felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about Pre
  
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• Netanyahu says Paris peace meeting 'rigged' against Israel

  12-01-2017 20:42
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister said Thursday that an upcoming conference in Paris aimed at reviving peace talks with the Palestinians was "rigged" and that Israel was not bound by anything d
  
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• In rare demonstration, thousands protest power cuts in Gaza

  12-01-2017 20:41
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets on Thursday to protest chronic power cuts in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, in one of the largest unauthorized protests in the territo
  
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• In eastern Mosul, small signs of progress amid the fighting

  12-01-2017 20:40
  
  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Small stalls and carts have sprung up outside the bombed-out buildings in eastern Mosul, selling meat and vegetables, cigarettes and cellphones to the thousands of civilians still l
  
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• Congress takes first steps to dismantle health care law

  12-01-2017 20:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are taking the first steps toward dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law, facing pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to move quickly on
  
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• Copper theft continuing to darken Tulsa highway lights, setting back expensive repair work

  12-01-2017 20:30
  
  A city official said in addition to the repairs being done with aluminum wiring — which has a much lower resale value — installing physical security measures in the conduits appears to have deterred would-be thieves, though not entirely. 
  
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• Student rescued after falling through frozen pond by school

  12-01-2017 20:24
  
  CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Police say a student from a Connecticut center that provides behavioral and developmental services fell through a frozen pond and had to be rescued.
  
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• Atlantic City casinos see 1st revenue increase in 10 years

  12-01-2017 20:13
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Internet gambling has helped Atlantic City's casinos post their first revenue increase in a decade.
  
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• Greek minister says Cyprus talks may continue this month

  12-01-2017 20:11
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Greece's foreign minister says top diplomats from Britain, Turkey and Greece will possibly meet again this month to hammer out a deal on crucial security arrangements that would be neede
  
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• Paris officials charge first 3 suspects in Kardashian heist

  12-01-2017 20:03
  
  PARIS (AP) — French authorities have filed the first charges against three suspects in the armed jewelry heist of Kim Kardashian West, with more charges expected to follow, the Paris prosecutors' offi
  
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• Bartlesville Streets Crews Prepare Ahead Of Winter Storm

  12-01-2017 19:52
  
  The city says it has nearly 1500 tons of sand and salt on hand and it's public works employees are on call if the roads get slick.
  
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• New Tulsa Jail Expansion Increases Services For Mentally Ill

  12-01-2017 19:44
  
  Tulsa County is close to opening an expansion of the jail. The new section increases capacity by 280 inmates, and provides new options for treating the ones who are mentally ill. 
  
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• Despite Progress, Tulsa Highway Light Wire Theft Still A Problem

  12-01-2017 19:17
  
  Workers are winning the battle to Tulsa's highway lights back on, but metal thieves are still breaking in and stealing the wire.
  
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• Tahlequah Police Arrest Man For Stabbing Neighbor

  12-01-2017 19:14
  
  Police in Tahlequah are investigating after a sergeant was in the right place at the right time for a stabbing victim. 
  
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• US imposes WMD sanctions on Syrian tech company

  12-01-2017 18:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a Syrian tech company it accused of helping Syria's ballistic missile program.
  
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• Virginia man sentenced in Ohio high school hacking case

  12-01-2017 18:42
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Virginia man who pleaded guilty to helping hack an online account to draw attention to a 2012 high school rape case in Ohio has been sentenced to eight months in prison.
  
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• The Latest: Defense pick says Trump open to F-35 fighters

  12-01-2017 18:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on activities in Congress (all times EST):
  
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• Memorial ready when missing North Carolina teen is buried

  12-01-2017 18:34
  
  SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — Work has been completed on a memorial in a North Carolina cemetery for the body of a teen who had been missing, although it's not known when she will be buried.
  
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• Suspected airport gunman became increasingly erratic

  12-01-2017 18:32
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Esteban Santiago stood alone in the cold one day last month outside Mom & Pop's liquor store in Anchorage. He was waving his arms and having a terrible argument in the par
  
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• ND farmers union to intervene in challenge to corporate ban

  12-01-2017 18:29
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Farmers Union will be allowed to file legal documents defending the constitutionality of the state's Depression-era ban on corporate farming.
  
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