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• How to improve your sex life without breaking the bank

  18-01-2017 23:55
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For many older couples, fun in the bedroom requires help from prescription drugs, but prices of popular brand-name sexual dysfunction drugs have tripled since 2010 and insurance c
  
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• In Wyoming, campus guns are more about safety than politics

  18-01-2017 23:48
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In grizzly country, comments by President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary that schools should have guns on campus to protect against the bears aren't a punch line
  
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• Vegemite being sold by Oreo-maker Mondelez

  18-01-2017 23:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Vegemite and other grocery products are being sold by Oreo-maker Mondelez to Australian dairy company Bega Cheese in a deal worth about $345.3 million (460 Australian dollars).
  
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• Booker T. Washington High School principal resigning; former Thoreau principal picked as interim

  18-01-2017 23:45
  
  Nanette Coleman plans to serve in a principal position at a school within the charter network International Leadership of Texas.
  
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• Mayes County Residential Care Center Owner Charged With Caretaker Abuse

  18-01-2017 23:43
  
  Prosecutors have charged the owner of a residential care center near Vinita with 17 counts of felony abuse by caretaker and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery. 
  
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• Baby sitter who was watching boy killed by train charged

  18-01-2017 23:43
  
  ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a baby sitter who was watching a 2-year-old Florida boy when he was struck by a train has been charged in his death.
  
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• Sheriff accused of meth theft pleads to felony, resigns

  18-01-2017 23:42
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A newly elected West Virginia sheriff who admitted he was a meth addict and was charged with stealing the drug from a police locker pleaded guilty to a felony and resigned fro
  
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• Tulsa Farmers Makert ofrece sus productos a la comunidad Tulsa Farmers market offers fresh local produce to all

  18-01-2017 23:37
  Quienes integramos el Tulsa Farmers Market queremos hacer un acercamiento hacia la comunidad en general, en especial hacia la poblacion hispana para que conozcan la amplia variedad de productos que se siembran localmente" senalo en entrevista Bobbie Chew Bigby, miembro del Tulsa Farmers Market. Chew, explico que esta asociacion se compone principalmente de productores locales: "Este es un mercado donde estan integrados todos los granjeros que estan en la parte noreste del estado de Oklahoma, don
  
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• Expanden la c rcel del condado Tulsa County Jail Expands

  18-01-2017 23:37
  Esta semana se dio a conocer la noticia que la carcel del condado de Tulsa cuenta ya con una ampliacion que abarca toda una ala del edificio. Y esque este cambio viene a traer un gran avance que favorecera a los reclusos ya que esta expansion sera destinada unicamente para aquellos internos que cuentan con alguna enfermedad mental.
  
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• DUI checkpoint planned in downtown Tulsa this weekend

  18-01-2017 23:35
  
  The checkpoint is part of the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office’s ENDUI program.
  
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• Washington tries to fix paid leave law dormant since 2007

  18-01-2017 23:31
  
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A decade ago, Washington state created a paid family leave program that required many employers to offer five weeks of paid time off for new parents. But the law that once offere
  
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• Virginia set to execute man convicted in family's slaying

  18-01-2017 23:31
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A man convicted of brutally killing a couple and their young daughters in their Virginia home on New Year's Day 2006 is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening.
  
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• Mom, kids fled at time when domestic violence wasn't a crime

  18-01-2017 23:31
  
  WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A woman charged with abducting her two daughters from their father in 1985 fled the state following an argument between the couple that turned physical, at a time when domestic vi
  
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• Rabbis plan response to white supremacist threats in Montana

  18-01-2017 23:27
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Orthodox Jewish rabbis said Wednesday they will counter white supremacists' harassment of the Jewish community in the Montana town of Whitefish by sending students to visit the Au
  
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• In inaugural speech will Trump call on our better angels?

  18-01-2017 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tradition suggests it's time for Donald Trump to set aside the say-anything speaking style and rise to the inaugural moment.
  
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• Man says Milwaukee's sheriff detained him for shaking head

  18-01-2017 23:22
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man says a tough-talking, cowboy-hat wearing Wisconsin sheriff detained him after a flight because the man shook his head at the lawman, who's gained a national prominence
  
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• Ice storm paralyzes parts of Oregon, Washington state

  18-01-2017 23:17
  
  TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — An ice storm shut down parts of major highways and interstates Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed the hardest hit towns along the Columbia River Gorge with u
  
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• Price tries to reassure on health care; Dems not buying it

  18-01-2017 23:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Offering reassurances, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for health secretary said Wednesday the new administration won't "pull the rug out" from those covered by "Obamacare." Demo
  
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• The Latest: Trump hotel in DC off-limits to media

  18-01-2017 23:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Chicago cop charged with murder in fatal off-duty shooting

  18-01-2017 23:14
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer has been charged with first-degree murder after the off-duty shooting of a 38-year-old unarmed man earlier this month.
  
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• Mental evaluation for man accused of killing pink flamingo

  18-01-2017 23:12
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The man accused of killing Pinky the pink flamingo at Busch Gardens last summer will be evaluated by doctors to determine his mental competency to stand trial.
  
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• Exiting rail safety chief looks to technology to save lives

  18-01-2017 23:12
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sarah Feinberg was on the job as the nation's chief railroad regulator for just three weeks when a packed commuter train slammed into an SUV stopped on tracks north of New York Cit
  
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• Officers who fatally shot woman holding fake gun are cleared

  18-01-2017 23:11
  
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia prosecutor on Wednesday cleared two police officers in the shooting death of a woman who reached for a fake handgun in her waist band as they confronted her.
  
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• CIA publishes new guidelines for handling Americans' info

  18-01-2017 23:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is updating its policies on how it stores, searches and shares information on Americans.
  
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• Tulsa Woman Charged For Permitting Child Sexual Abuse

  18-01-2017 23:08
  
  A Tulsa woman was charged with permitting child sexual abuse in her home, according to online court documents.
  
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• Tulsa Council Gives Timeline For Vision Projects

  18-01-2017 22:16
  
  The City of Tulsa plans to use bond money to speed up funding for the next phase of the Vision plan so that 80 percent of the Vision projects will be fully funded in the first five years of the program. 
  
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• Timeline for Vision projects shows most will get immediate funds via bonds

  18-01-2017 22:00
  
  The aggressive front-loading for funding in the 15-year tax, which voters approved in April, is possible through a series of bonds the city plans to issue beginning this spring.Photo gallery: The projects of Vision Tulsa
  
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• Death toll in Mali suicide blast rises to at least 60

  18-01-2017 21:44
  
  GAO, Mali (AP) — A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle penetrated a camp in northern Mali on Wednesday, killing at least 60 people and wounding 115 soldiers and former fighters who are tryin
  
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• The Latest: Obama says daughters disappointed by election

  18-01-2017 21:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Barack Obama (all times EST):
  
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• Indian activist Peltier's supporters hope for clemency

  18-01-2017 21:34
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Supporters of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison in the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975, hope President Barack Obam
  
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• Budget pick Mulvaney acknowledges payroll tax lapse

  18-01-2017 21:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to run the White House budget office, failed to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for a household worker more than a de
  
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• Colombia leader says peace talks to start with rebel group

  18-01-2017 21:28
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's second-largest rebel group has agreed to free a prominent politician that it has held captive for almost a year, clearing the way for repeatedly postponed peace talk
  
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• Obama defends decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence

  18-01-2017 21:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama firmly defended his decision to cut nearly three decades off convicted leaker Chelsea Manning's prison term Wednesday, arguing in his final White House news co
  
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• Vinita Area Assisted Living Center Owner Charged With Caretaker Abuse

  18-01-2017 21:26
  
  Prosecutors have charged the owner of an assisted living center near Vinita with 17 counts of felony abuse by caretaker and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery. 
  
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• Committee decisively approves Mattis for defense secretary

  18-01-2017 21:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Armed Services Committee voted decisively Wednesday to approve Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, clearing the way for retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to be confi
  
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• Monae among performers at Women's March on Washington

  18-01-2017 21:22
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Janelle Monae, Maxwell and Angelique Kidjo are set to perform at the Women's March on Washington this weekend.
  
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• Texas House speaker pans bathroom bill, exposes GOP divide

  18-01-2017 21:21
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A proposal barring transgender people in Texas from using the bathroom of their choice is unequivocally bad for business, a powerful state Republican legislator said Wednesday, in
  
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• Arkansas governor vows to seek deeper tax cuts in 2 years

  18-01-2017 21:21
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson got a cool reception from fellow Republicans when he proposed a tax cut for low-income residents that was more modest than some legislators had ho
  
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• Happy Birthday, Tulsa! City turns 119

  18-01-2017 21:18
  
  Happy 119th Birthday, Tulsa! The city was founded on this day in 1898. This photo shows main street in 1890.
  
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• Protests erupt over Romanian govt's plan to pardon thousands

  18-01-2017 21:17
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Several thousand people marched through the Romanian capital on Wednesday night to protest the government's plan to pardon thousands of prisoners — a surprise move to alleged
  
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• The Latest: Experts warn of cyberattacks on infrastructure

  18-01-2017 21:07
  
  DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local):
  
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• In break with Trump, EPA pick says climate change isn't hoax

  18-01-2017 20:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that climate change is real, breaking with both the president-elect and his own past statements.
  
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• The Latest: George HW Bush in ICU, wife also hospitalized

  18-01-2017 20:57
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the hospitalization of former President George H.W. Bush (all times local):
  
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• Rogue cow injures Mississippi woman before being recaptured

  18-01-2017 20:56
  
  NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Police have recaptured a rogue cow that roamed near Natchez, Mississippi, for three months, but not before the runaway animal seriously injured a woman.
  
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• Classical fuses with punk to kick off Paris menswear shows

  18-01-2017 20:52
  
  PARIS (AP) — Subzero temperatures were an apt backdrop for fashionistas who arrived in Paris for the first day of warmly-wrapped fall/winter 2017 menswear fashion shows.
  
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• Chelsea Manning: a potent symbol for transgender Americans

  18-01-2017 20:52
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For most Americans, Chelsea Manning has been a hero or villain based on how they view her decision to leak classified material. For transgender people, she has another dimension — serv
  
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• Orlando gunman's widow pleads not guilty to aiding husband

  18-01-2017 20:51
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The widow of the Orlando nightclub gunman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of aiding and abetting her husband's support of the Islamic State group and hindering the inves
  
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• Man accused of planting note on plane warning of bomb

  18-01-2017 20:48
  
  DENVER (AP) — An airline passenger has been arrested on charges of planting a note on a plane en route from San Diego to Denver that falsely claimed a bomb was on board.
  
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• Chicago mom charged after 5-year-old daughter shoots herself

  18-01-2017 20:46
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a 5-year-old Chicago girl is in serious condition after she shot herself in the abdomen with a handgun that she found in her mother's purse.
  
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• AP Explains: The African leader who refuses to leave

  18-01-2017 20:40
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The tiny nation of Gambia has West Africa on the brink of a military intervention, and thousands, including cabinet ministers, are fleeing the country. Longtime President Yahya Jam
  
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