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• APNewsBreak: Denver slaying suspect supports Islamic State

  17-02-2017 23:59
  
  DENVER (AP) — A former U.S. soldier accused of shooting and killing a transit guard in downtown Denver last month says he is a supporter of the Islamic State group, but investigators say they have not
  
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• Northern New England gets buried in snow, and skiers love it

  17-02-2017 23:56
  
  BURKE, Vt. (AP) — The gods have answered the call of skiers, snowmobilers and dog mushers, dumping mounds of snow in northern New England following little snow last season during the warmest winter on
  
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• DEQ Investigates Wellston Aircraft Repair Business

  17-02-2017 23:56
  
  Neighbors are concerned about the safety of their water supply after the Department of Environmental Quality found Wellston-based Biggs Aircraft was improperly disposing paint stripping chemicals. 
  
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• APNewsBreak: Utah lobbyists treat lawmakers with no scrutiny

  17-02-2017 23:56
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In a private dining room at a sleek downtown restaurant this week, half a dozen Utah lawmakers joined a group of lobbyists for dinner, with the group's nearly $1,000 bill paid fo
  
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• Investment banker gets 3-year prison term over inside tips

  17-02-2017 23:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An investment banker convicted of insider trading charges alleging he fed tips to his father was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison by a judge who said he betrayed the compan
  
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• Man sentenced for fatal shooting at Seattle university

  17-02-2017 23:54
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A man who fatally shot a student at a Seattle university was sentenced Friday to 112 years in prison.
  
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• McCain slams Trump in Munich speech without using his name

  17-02-2017 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain delivered a withering critique of President Donald Trump in a speech Friday that highlighted fractures within the GOP as the new administration struggles
  
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• Eric Garner chokehold case rolls on, but future is cloudy

  17-02-2017 23:50
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal civil rights investigation into the police chokehold death of Eric Garner has been moving forward in New York, but its future is uncertain as a U.S. attorney general with a l
  
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• Okmulgee Police: Parts Missing From Woman's Remains Found In Suitcase

  17-02-2017 23:48
  
  Okmulgee Police say several parts were missing from the human torso found in a suitcase at the Walmart gas station on Wednesday.
  
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• Baby orangutan, parents' 3rd, debuts at zoo, is doing great

  17-02-2017 23:48
  
  ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A baby orangutan has made its debut at a Pennsylvania zoo.
  
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• The Latest: Scott Pruitt sworn in as EPA leader

  17-02-2017 23:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President's Donald Trump's Cabinet (all times local):
  
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• Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt sworn in to lead the Environmental Protection Agency

  17-02-2017 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt sworn in to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
  
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• Okmulgee Police: Several Parts Missing From Woman's Remains Found In Suitcase

  17-02-2017 23:43
  
  Okmulgee Police say several parts were missing from the human torso found in a suitcase at the Walmart gas station on Wednesday.
  
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• Durst friend stonewalled, long denied knowing of confession

  17-02-2017 23:40
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst's close friend said Friday that it took seven months for him to come clean and tell prosecutors what the real estate heir said about killing their close friend.
  
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• Warren Clinic Tower to reopen Monday

  17-02-2017 23:39
  
  The tower was closed earlier this week due to a water leak.
  
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• Amtrak officer charged with killing unarmed man in Chicago

  17-02-2017 23:39
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — An Amtrak police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed Minneapolis man outside Chicago's Union Station was ordered held on $250,000 bail Friday.
  
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• Trump leaps back into campaign mode, raps media anew

  17-02-2017 23:37
  
  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Hoping to shift attention from his troubled White House, President Donald Trump hit the road Friday to deliver a pep talk to American workers and the rest of the nation,
  
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• 'Pioneer Woman Effect' Makes Pawhuska A Boom Town Again

  17-02-2017 22:57
  
  Some might say it's the Pioneer Woman effect. Whatever you want to call it, this old boom town is booming again.
  
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• Largest branch of American Judaism opposes Trump envoy pick

  17-02-2017 22:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the largest branch of American Judaism declared their opposition Friday to the combative attorney President Donald Trump selected to be his envoy to Israel, citing his
  
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• Planes clip wings in ground collision at Phoenix airport

  17-02-2017 21:59
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Two passenger jets clipped their wingtips in a minor ground collision close to a Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport terminal. Nobody was injured in the Thursday evening incident.
  
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• Milano Vice? Palm trees near Milan's cathedral spark debate

  17-02-2017 21:59
  
  MILAN (AP) — The appearance of an oasis of palm trees opposite Milan's gothic-era Duomo Cathedral has spawned a vibrant public debate.
  
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• Pruitt OK'd as EPA chief over environmentalists' objections

  17-02-2017 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the strong objections of environmental groups, the Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, giving President Donald Trump an eager pa
  
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• Pentagon cites evidence of Islamic State 'exodus' from Raqqa

  17-02-2017 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A months-long campaign to isolate and pressure the Islamic State group's self-declared capital of Raqqa, Syria, is paying off as the administrative backbone of the militant organizat
  
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• LGBT employees ask Education Secretary to keep protections

  17-02-2017 21:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — LGBT employees have asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to commit to safeguarding anti-discrimination regulations amid fears that the Trump administration may weaken those protecti
  
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• Agency reports earthquake felt across Hawaiian Islands

  17-02-2017 21:46
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Minor shaking was felt across Hawaii's island chain Friday morning after a moderate earthquake struck between the Big Island and Maui, but no damage was reported.
  
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• Ex-student sues boarding school after grand jury sex probe

  17-02-2017 21:41
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An alumna sued a Pennsylvania boarding school Friday, weeks after a grand jury report detailed a half-century of sexual abuse there, accusing the school of ignoring warnings the at
  
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• Pence arrives in Germany for meetings with world leaders

  17-02-2017 21:39
  
  MUNICH (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Germany for his first overseas trip as vice president.
  
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• Officials close Penn State frat where pledge had fatal fall

  17-02-2017 21:39
  
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are shutting down a Penn State fraternity where a pledge was fatally injured in a fall down the stairs.
  
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• U.S. Attorney: Tulsa Doctor Reaches Settlement Over Drug Allegations

  17-02-2017 21:37
  
  A Tulsa doctor has reached a settlement with the U.S. Attorney's Office over allegations the doctor violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act. 
  
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• Arizona to death-row inmates: Bring your own execution drugs

  17-02-2017 21:36
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The recent revelation that condemned prisoners in Arizona can now provide the lethal drugs to be used in their executions has received attention around the world and raised questions ab
  
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• Commission: 'Systemic racism' at root of Flint water crisis

  17-02-2017 21:35
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — "Systemic racism" going back decades is at the core of problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority black city of Flint, according to a Michigan Civil Righ
  
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• Alaska's Bogoslof Volcano erupts, sends up ash cloud

  17-02-2017 21:34
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska volcano that's been active since mid-December has erupted again.
  
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• The Latest: Durst friend stonewalled cops about confession

  17-02-2017 21:29
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on pretrial testimony in the Robert Durst murder case (all times local):
  
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• Labor secretary nominee faces Senate hearing, for 4th time

  17-02-2017 21:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and a leading Republican are highlighting a key fact about labor secretary nominee Alexander Acosta: He has been confirmed three times by the Senate.
  
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• The Latest: Ex-prosecutor leading school's review of doctor

  17-02-2017 21:28
  
  MASON, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on a criminal case against a Michigan sports doctor who is charged with sexual assault (all times local):
  
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• Powerful storm enters California bringing risk of flooding

  17-02-2017 21:27
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful Pacific storm blew into southern and central California on Friday, unleashing wind-driven heavy rains that forecasters said could become the strongest in years if not dec
  
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• Defrocked priest appears in court in Maine on 29 sex counts

  17-02-2017 21:27
  
  YORK, Maine (AP) — A former Roman Catholic priest who spent more than a decade in a Massachusetts prison for raping an altar boy has made an initial court appearance in Maine on 29 counts of sexual mi
  
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• The Latest: School vows vigilance to prevent sex abuse

  17-02-2017 21:24
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on Boarding School-Sex Abuse (all times local):
  
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• Southwest lawsuit claims union workers avoiding overtime

  17-02-2017 21:23
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines Co. is suing a major union and its leaders, charging that they did nothing to stop mechanics from boycotting overtime assignments.
  
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• Speakers address racism at Vatican conference on inequality

  17-02-2017 21:21
  
  MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Speakers at a Vatican-sponsored conference in Northern California have called on the Roman Catholic Church to acknowledge its own racism and urged those attending to fight again
  
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• With EMSA under fire, memo outlines Oklahoma City ambulance service alternatives

  17-02-2017 21:17
  
  Federal attorneys allege EMSA received more than $20 million in illegal kickbacks from a Texas-based contractor that provided drivers, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
  
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• Quick-acting Houston man catches child falling from counter

  17-02-2017 21:17
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Surveillance video at an indoor skydiving facility in Houston shows an instructor quickly catching a toddler as the child falls backward off a counter.
  
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• Regulators to probe dumping of debris from deadly fire

  17-02-2017 21:09
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The top air quality regulator in the San Francisco Bay Area is investigating Friday why charred debris from an Oakland warehouse fire that killed 36 people was dumped along the
  
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• Former Employee Charged With Rape, Bribery At Hominy Prison

  17-02-2017 20:56
  
  Prosecutors charged a former Hominy prison employee with two counts of first degree rape and one count of bribery after an investigation by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
  
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• Police: Woman's Body Parts May Have Been Dumped In More Communities Than Just Okmulgee

  17-02-2017 20:46
  
  Police in Boulder, Colorado say they believe Ashley Mead was killed in Boulder and her body at least partially dismembered just outside of Shreveport, Louisiana and some of her body parts were discarded in several communities, not just Okmulgee.
  
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• AP: President May Mobilize Troops To "Round-up" Immigrants

  17-02-2017 20:30
  
  A draft memo obtained by The Associated Press outlines a Trump administration proposal under consideration to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants. Millions of those who would be affected in 11 states live nowhere near the Mexico border. The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana. If the proposal is implemented, ...
  
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• Tulsa Cop Shannon Kepler's Murder Trial Could Go To Jury Today

  17-02-2017 20:24
  
  Shannon Kepler's second murder trial is expected to go to the jury sometime Friday afternoon. 
  
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• John Klein: Darryl Starbird Rod and Custom Car Show evolves to appeal to younger crowd

  17-02-2017 20:20
  
  “It just kind of dwindled over the years,” said Cliff Starbird, son of Darryl. “Like a lot of things, we got older. There aren’t as many people that grew up working on their car like we did back in the day." The show is at River Spirit Expo this weekend.Photo Gallery: The 53rd Annual Darryl Starbird Rod and Custom Car Show
  
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• The Latest: Syria monitoring group says jihadis to join IS

  17-02-2017 20:03
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: USDA reposts some online animal welfare records

  17-02-2017 19:58
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on the USDA's decision to remove animal welfare records from its website (all times local):
  
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