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• 'Sanctuary cities' ban may let Texas oust elected officials

  08-02-2017 23:57
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has warned local elected officials the state would "hammer" them if they resist federal efforts to deport immigrants in the country illegally. Republican la
  
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• Robert F. Kennedy's son announces bid for Illinois governor

  08-02-2017 23:57
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chris Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, announced Wednesday he will run for Illinois governor in 2018, bringing the instant name recognition of his family's political leg
  
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• Prosecutors drop charges for 3 arrested on Inauguration Day

  08-02-2017 23:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped felony rioting charges against three more people who were arrested after protesters broke windows and torched a limousine in Washington on Inauguration Day.
  
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• The Latest: Suspect returning from Georgia to Florida

  08-02-2017 23:53
  
  The Latest on the capture of a woman suspected in a string of deaths across Florida and Alabama (all times local):
  
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• Hold On, Arizona. Oklahoma Has Had A Cement Mixer/Space Capsule For Years

  08-02-2017 23:35
  
  A cement-mixer-turned-space-capsule in Arizona is drawing comparisons to one in northeast Oklahoma.
  
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• Tulsa SPCA Holds First Low-Cost Spay & Neuter Clinic

  08-02-2017 23:03
  
  The Tulsa SPCA is making it more affordable for pet owners to spay and neuter their animals. The first of their low-cost clinics was held Wednesday.  
  
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• Stigler Public Schools Cancels Classes Due To Flu

  08-02-2017 23:00
  
  Classes have been canceled at Stigler Public Schools for the rest of the week due to a large number of students being absent with the flu, school officials said. 
  
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• US-funded news channel in Russian offers Kremlin alternative

  08-02-2017 22:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. government-funded news outlets are launching a global Russian-language TV network aimed at providing an alternative to slick, Kremlin-controlled media that critics say sprea
  
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• Female Inmates Captured After Walking Away From Muskogee County Jail

  08-02-2017 22:32
  
  Muskogee County Sheriff's Office say both female inmates who walked out of their jail early Wednesday are back in custody.
  
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• Wisconsin Gov. Walker to release different-looking budget

  08-02-2017 22:31
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was expected to put forward a budget Wednesday that barely resembles the ones from his first six years in office, with a huge boost for schools, sizabl
  
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• Police: Trooper shoots at suspect driving toward him

  08-02-2017 22:30
  
  RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say they are investigating after a trooper shot and wounded a suspect who drove toward him.
  
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• Phoenix man gets 30 years for helping plot Texas attack

  08-02-2017 22:28
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday on charges that he provided support to the Islamic State group by helping two followers with an attempted attack on an anti-Islam eve
  
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• Mississippi considers firing squad as method of execution

  08-02-2017 22:26
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs.
  
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• Utility to pay $8.5 million to settle suit over gas blowout

  08-02-2017 22:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Southern California Gas Co. agreed Wednesday to pay $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over a well blowout that spewed natural gas for nearly four months and drove thousands of re
  
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• Trump administration weighs health insurance 'stabilization'

  08-02-2017 22:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about the nearly 20 million people who buy their own health insurance policies, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are weighing how to stabilize a wobbly
  
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• Pennsylvania Senate OKs 20-week abortion ban; veto awaits

  08-02-2017 22:07
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — After an emotionally charged and graphic debate, the state Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would make Pennsylvania the latest state to ban abortions at 20 weeks and r
  
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• Carter: Renewable energy can help Trump create jobs

  08-02-2017 22:07
  
  PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday millions of jobs could be created in the United States if President Donald Trump embraced renewable energy sources such as geothermal, s
  
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• Records show repeat visits to Oakland warehouse before fire

  08-02-2017 22:04
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in Oakland visited a cluttered warehouse converted into an illegal residence dozens of times in the several years before it burned down, killing 36 people.
  
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• El Faro sinking testimony: Crew did all it could to hold on

  08-02-2017 22:04
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The former chief engineer of a container ship that sank in a hurricane killing 33 sailors said evidence from the ship's "black box" shows a crew working hard to keep it afloa
  
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• Tulsa Police Name Suspect In City's 9th Homicide Of 2017

  08-02-2017 22:02
  
  The Tulsa Police Department's Homicide Division has released the name of the suspect in the Tuesday shooting death of a 31-year-old man at the Towne Square Apartments. 
  
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• Abortion bill stalls as activists rally at Oklahoma Capitol

  08-02-2017 22:02
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — While hundreds of anti-abortion activists descended on the Oklahoma Capitol for a rally on Wednesday, a GOP-led House committee failed to pass an anti-abortion bill in a move that
  
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• GOP elevates Warren's standing by ordering her silenced

  08-02-2017 21:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The turbulent national debate over race, gender and free speech consumed the normally staid Senate on Wednesday after the GOP majority voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, abruptl
  
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• Trump tweets that Nordstrom treated Ivanka "so unfairly"

  08-02-2017 21:53
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump criticized Nordstrom on Wednesday, tweeting that the department store chain that decided to stop selling his daughter's clothing and accessory line has treated h
  
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• The Latest: Romania protests continue for 9th night in snow

  08-02-2017 21:53
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Latest on the political situation in Romania (all times local):
  
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• NJ Transit says it'll finish mandated braking system on time

  08-02-2017 21:52
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Transit's executive director says the agency will meet a December 2018 federal deadline for installing an emergency braking system, despite lagging other passenger railr
  
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• 5-Hour Energy ordered to pay $4.3 million over deceptive ads

  08-02-2017 21:52
  
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Washington state has ordered the makers of the 5-Hour Energy drink to pay nearly $4.3 million in penalties and legal fees over deceptive advertising.
  
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• Fugitive May Be In Tahlequah Or Tulsa, DOC Director States

  08-02-2017 21:50
  
  Department of Corrections officials believe a fugitive who has been on the run for two years may be in the Tulsa and Tahlequah areas.  
  
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• The Latest: Dakota Access protest leaders remain resolved

  08-02-2017 21:46
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on the proposed four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline (all times local):
  
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• Illnesses at Minco Schools results in classes canceled for the rest of the week

  08-02-2017 21:45
  
  More than 130 students at Minco Public Schools have reported being sick, school officials report.
  
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• UK's House of Commons passes bill authorizing Brexit

  08-02-2017 21:44
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's House of Commons gave its final approval Wednesday to a bill authorizing the government to start exit talks with the European Union, despite fears by opposition lawmakers that
  
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• Records show Kentucky governor has not paid property taxes

  08-02-2017 21:41
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Records show Kentucky's Republican governor is late paying his 2016 property taxes on his Louisville home.
  
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• OSU Seeks Memorabilia From Oklahoma's Women's Marches

  08-02-2017 20:48
  
  Oklahoma State University is looking for memorabilia from the Oklahoma women's marches held January 21 to build an archive for future studies.
  
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• Canadian County Deputies Discover 30 Pounds Of Meth In Kansas Couple's Car

  08-02-2017 20:25
  
  Canadian County Sheriff’s Deputies say a Kansas couple were arrested Friday when 30 pounds of methamphetamines was found hidden inside the rental car they were driving. 
  
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• Pott County Sheriff Says Person Of Interest In Double Norman Homicide Is Dead

  08-02-2017 20:17
  
  The Pottawatomie County Sheriff says a person of interest in a double homicide has died Wednesday.  
  
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• Trial court arraignment for Steven Jameson postponed Wednesday

  08-02-2017 20:00
  
  Judge makes postponement so both sides can file motions in the case involving withdrawn guilty plea stemming from a 2009 car crash that killed three people.
  
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• GOP, Dem senators want congressional say on Russia sanctions

  08-02-2017 19:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators wants President Donald Trump to get approval from Congress before easing U.S. sanctions against Russia.
  
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• Former prime minister, a US citizen, wins Somalia vote

  08-02-2017 19:58
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was declared Somalia's new president Wednesday, immediately taking the oath of office as the long-chaotic count
  
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• Boy Scouts welcome first transgender boy after policy change

  08-02-2017 19:56
  
  MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey boy has become the first openly transgender member of the Boy Scouts one week after the Boy Scouts of America changed its policy to allow transgender children to jo
  
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• Bloody rampage across South ends with 4 deaths in 2 states

  08-02-2017 19:50
  
  Authorities say they'll expedite the move to Florida of a woman who faces multiple charges in the deaths of four women in a bloody rampage across three states that ended at a Georgia motel with anothe
  
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• The Latest: Man gets 30 years for helping plot Texas attack

  08-02-2017 19:49
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a Phoenix man on terrorism charges related to an attempted attack in Texas in 2015 (all times local):
  
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• Reward offered for information in apparent random dog shooting

  08-02-2017 19:45
  
  Anonymous donors pooled $3,000 to offer as a reward for information related to the shooting of a dog in late January at a south Tulsa apartment complex.
  
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• Court bars Russian opposition leader from presidential race

  08-02-2017 19:45
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted Wednesday in a retrial of a 2013 fraud case and given a suspended sentence, a ruling that bars him from running for president next
  
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• Judge Halts Jury Selection In Trial Of Former Tulsa Cop

  08-02-2017 19:40
  
  A judge halted jury selection Wednesday in the second murder trial of former Tulsa Police officer Shannon Kepler 
  
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• Gov. Kasich to newspaper editors: 'I want you to survive'

  08-02-2017 19:39
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) says he wants to see the state's newspaper industry survive and thrive.
  
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• Sheriff: Georgia man's car tests positive for ricin

  08-02-2017 19:38
  
  BLUE RIDGE, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta says the FBI is investigating a Georgia man who drove himself to a hospital and said he'd been exposed to ricin, a deadly toxin.
  
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• Inmate Walks Away From Muskogee County Jail

  08-02-2017 19:33
  
  Muskogee County authorities are looking for a jail inmate who they say walked away Wednesday morning.
  
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• Arraignment For Man Facing Tulsa Manslaughter Charges Postponed

  08-02-2017 19:33
  
  Steven Wade Jameson of Stillwater was back in a Tulsa courtroom briefly Wednesday morning for the first time since a judge let him withdraw his guilty plea two weeks ago.
  
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• Zoo staff feeding, warming 3 newborn Malayan tigers

  08-02-2017 19:30
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Three Malayan tiger cubs are being cared for in the Cincinnati Zoo's nursery.
  
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• Abortion Bill Stalls; Rose Day Rally Held At Capitol

  08-02-2017 19:30
  
  While hundreds of anti-abortion activists descended on the state Capitol for a rally, a Republican-led House committee failed to pass an anti-abortion bill in a move that surprised its chairman.  
  
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• Corolla turns 50, gets new styling and safety features

  08-02-2017 19:29
  
  Toyota has marked 50 years of its stalwart and economical Corolla by giving it new styling and features and a nicer interior while keeping it under $20,000.
  
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