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• Scott Pruitt Addresses EPA Employees As New Administrator

  21-02-2017 23:54
  
  Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt took his first official action as EPA Administrator on Tuesday, addressing his 15,000 new employees. Pruitt didn't try to give his entire vision for the agency in one speech, but called this "a beginning." 
  
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• Controversial 'Right Of Conscience' Bill Passes OK House Committee

  21-02-2017 23:19
  
  A controversial bill that would allow business owners to turn people away because of ideological differences. It's now advanced out of a Senate committee. 
  
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• Tulsa Man Receives Life Sentence for Assaulting Insurance Adjuster

  21-02-2017 23:17
  
   A Tulsa man who filed a bogus insurance claim and assaulted an insurance adjuster has been sentenced to life in prison, the Oklahoma Insurance Department said. 
  
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• Coweta Police Believe Attempted Child Abduction Was Misunderstanding

  21-02-2017 23:01
  
  Coweta Police released a photo of a car that may have been involved in an attempted child abduction at Monday afternoon, February 20.
  
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• School district agrees to remove Ten Commandments monument

  21-02-2017 23:00
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district has agreed to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from outside a high school and pay $164,000 in legal fees to settle a federal lawsuit.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Alabama inmate's death row appeal

  21-02-2017 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama can again try to execute a convicted killer who has been on death row for 30 years and had seven execution dates postponed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
  
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• Drew Peterson transferred out of Illinois prison system

  21-02-2017 22:56
  
  MENARD, Ill. (AP) — Former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson has been transferred out of an Illinois prison and is now in a federal prison in Indiana.
  
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• Trump denounces anti-Semitism; newly forceful condemnation

  21-02-2017 22:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned recent threats against Jewish community centers in the U.S. as "painful reminders" of lingering prejudice and evil, his first full-throate
  
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• Tulsa Police Offer Crime Prevention Tips

  21-02-2017 22:53
  
  The Tulsa Police Department said one key to crime prevention is making you and your property hard targets for the criminals.
  
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• Official: Ecuador's presidential election headed to runoff

  21-02-2017 22:50
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's nail-biter election is heading to a runoff after results showed ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno falling just shy of the votes needed to clench a first-round victory
  
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• Judge weighs if government must help rejected travelers

  21-02-2017 22:50
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge's order blocking parts of Republican President Donald Trump's travel ban is expiring, but a Brooklyn jurist is considering whether the government must help get back tr
  
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• Americans killed in Australian plane crash were avid golfers

  21-02-2017 22:50
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Four American tourists were pursuing a devout interest in golf during a weekslong trip to Australia when they were killed Tuesday after a light plane carrying them on an offshore excursi
  
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• Tulsa Christmas Parade Committee Donates $5K To Soldier’s Wish

  21-02-2017 22:49
  
  The spirit of the holiday season is alive and well in Tulsa, nearly two months after Christmas.
  
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• Trump administration working on trans bathroom guidelines

  21-02-2017 22:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is working on a new set of directives on the use of school bathrooms by transgender students, the White House said Tuesday.
  
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• Man who discussed attack like Dylann Roof's to stay in jail

  21-02-2017 22:40
  
  FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Benjamin McDowell will remain in jail for at least a little while after the FBI said the convicted felon wanted to buy a gun to use in a hate crime similar to the South Carolina
  
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• The Latest: Trump 'saddened' by death of Russian diplomat

  21-02-2017 22:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Trump targets many more immigrants for possible deportation

  21-02-2017 22:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Many more people living in the United States illegally could face rapid deportation — including people simply arrested for traffic violations — under a sweeping rewrite of U.S. immig
  
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• Bank robber gets life sentence for using hostage as shield

  21-02-2017 22:36
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California man who used a woman he took hostage as a human shield from police gunfire after a deadly bank robbery and car chase was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison in an em
  
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• State lawmakers channel grief into fight against opioids

  21-02-2017 22:35
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation's deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic pe
  
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• Trump pick as security adviser is nod toward pragmatism

  21-02-2017 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's choice of an outspoken but non-political Army general as national security adviser is a nod to pragmatism, but Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will serve a commander
  
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• Update: Council delays decision on mayor's proposal for Helmerich Park development

  21-02-2017 22:30
  
  The meeting was continued to March 1. Mayor G.T. Bynum's proposal calls for the entire $1,465,000 sale price to be reserved for the benefit of the rest of Helmerich Park, for developers to donate $100,000 to Park Friends and for the city to spend up to $570,000 for utilities and other infrastructure at the site.
  
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• More tests needed on Russian UN ambassador's cause of death

  21-02-2017 22:29
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Medical examiners who performed an autopsy on Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday that more tests are needed to determine how and why he fell ill in his office and l
  
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• Trump praises new African American museum during first visit

  21-02-2017 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump denounced "bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms" during his first visit to the new Smithsonian black history museum on Tuesday.
  
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• More Children Accuse Perry Teacher's Assistant Of Molestation

  21-02-2017 22:27
  
  More children have come forward accusing a Perry Elementary School teacher’s assistant of molestation, bringing the total number of victims to 24.
  
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• Houston police chief: No injuries amid gunfire reports

  21-02-2017 22:26
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The police chief in Houston says no one has been found injured and there's no evidence of a shooting amid reports of gunfire inside the hospital at the Texas Medical Center.
  
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• Gucci gone: $24,000 purse pilfered from store display

  21-02-2017 22:25
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Police in Charleston are looking for a suspect with expensive taste.
  
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• US appeals court upholds Maryland assault weapons ban

  21-02-2017 22:21
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld Maryland's ban on 45 assault weapons and a 10-round limit on gun magazines.
  
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• Liens show governor's companies owe his state $4.4 million

  21-02-2017 22:19
  
  BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Coal companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice still owe his cash-strapped state $4.4 million in unpaid taxes due at least a year ago, tax liens show.
  
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• Sentencing of Israeli soldier in shooting deepens fissures

  21-02-2017 22:12
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli soldier was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for killing a badly wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground, in a landmark decision that deepened fissure
  
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• Fort Hood soldier from Massachusetts dies in Iraq

  21-02-2017 22:12
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A Fort Hood soldier originally from Massachusetts has died in Iraq.
  
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• Correction: Suicidal Teens-Marriage Laws story

  21-02-2017 22:09
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — In a story Feb. 20 about same-sex marriage laws and teen suicides, The Associated Press, relying on figures published in a JAMA Pediatrics study, reported erroneously the number of surv
  
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• Police Arrest Two Bartlesville Juveniles In Vandalism Case

  21-02-2017 22:00
  
  Bartlesville Police arrested two juveniles in connection with a series of property damage incidents Sunday evening.
  
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• Via video, Tulsa's Annie Clark (St. Vincent) introduces her directing debut at Circle Cinema

  21-02-2017 21:48
  Tulsa's Annie Clark, better known to the public as music performer St. Vincent, makes her filmmaking debut with "XX," a horror anthology. Courtesy Tulsa's Annie Clark, better known to the public as music performer St. Vincent, makes her filmmaking debut with "XX," a horror anthology.
  
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• Chafee blasts media over Trump 'onslaught,' metric coverage

  21-02-2017 20:29
  
  EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee defended Republican President Donald Trump on Tuesday against a tiresome "full onslaught" by the "mainstream media"
  
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• Subway crash in railyard injured 4 near Philadelphia

  21-02-2017 20:15
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An out-of-service subway train rear-ended a stopped train in a railyard Tuesday, causing some cars to jump the track and hit a third train, officials said. Four people were injured
  
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• Cardinal at center of Ireland's clergy abuse scandals dies

  21-02-2017 20:13
  
  DUBLIN (AP) — Cardinal Desmond Connell, whose tenure as Dublin's Roman Catholic archbishop was dominated by revelations of pedophilia in the priesthood, has died at the age of 90.
  
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• Italy's Renzi brushes off schism, positions self for future

  21-02-2017 20:09
  
  ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi brushed off a fracture within his ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday as he positioned himself to retake its leadership three months after suffering a hu
  
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• 3rd person sentenced in scalding of cat in Mississippi

  21-02-2017 20:04
  
  MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) — A third person in Mississippi been sentenced to jail for the scalding of a caged cat in a video that was posted online.
  
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• Iowa AG wants to be excused from collective bargaining suit

  21-02-2017 20:01
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's top attorney wants to excuse himself from defending the state in a lawsuit that challenges a new collective bargaining law.
  
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• Smoking Ban In Vehicles With Children Clears Oklahoma Panel

  21-02-2017 19:57
  
  Legislation that would ban smoking in vehicles containing children has cleared an Oklahoma House committee.
  
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• The Latest: Mitch McConnell fields protesters' questions

  21-02-2017 19:51
  
  LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) — The Latest on Mitch McConnell's first stop in Kentucky during the congressional recess and the 1,000 protesters who greeted him outside (all times local):
  
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• Rise in premiums lays bare 2 Americas on health care

  21-02-2017 19:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Schwarz is a self-employed business owner who buys his own health insurance. The subsidized coverage "Obamacare" offers provides protection from life's unpredictable changes
  
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• Deputy: 3 women and 5-year-old boy killed in Mississippi

  21-02-2017 19:43
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy and three of his female family members were shot to death at a home in eastern Mississippi, authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• Man charged in Khalid Jabara's murder to be arraigned before new judge

  21-02-2017 19:40
  
  District Judge Sharon Holmes received the case Tuesday morning following a recusal from District Judge William LaFortune, who was previously set to preside over Stanley Majors' murder case and another case involving allegations of a 2015 assault and battery against Khalid Jabara's mother.
  
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• Tulsa Mayor Presents Revised Plan For Helmerich Park

  21-02-2017 19:36
  
  Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum revealed a revised plan Tuesday to develop land on the corner of 71st and Riverside - Helmerich Park.  
  
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• Death of Russian ambassador to UN needs to be studied more

  21-02-2017 19:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The cause and manner of death of Russia's ambassador to the United Nations needs to be studied further, the city medical examiner said Tuesday, a day after the diplomat fell ill at his
  
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• 5 rescued from swollen creek as storms pummel California

  21-02-2017 19:34
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fire crews rescued five people Tuesday who were stranded in flooding at a homeless encampment along a San Jose creek after a series of robust storms drenched already soggy Norther
  
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• CIA on deadline to argue for interrogation documents secrecy

  21-02-2017 19:32
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge has given the CIA until March 8 to determine whether it wants to try to keep some records secret about the relationship between the agency and two psychologists h
  
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• South Tulsa shooting suspect receives new judge

  21-02-2017 19:31
  Stanley Majors faces murder charges in the shooting death of Khalid Jabara In a previous hearing, Judge William Lafortune recused himself During a hearing Tuesday, Majors receives a new judge He previously waived his right to a preliminary hearing; his attorney filed insanity motions Man accused of threatening child he doesn't know with knife at Broken Arrow park FOX23 Investigates: Tiny Homes for Big Heroes More than 40 Outback, Carrabba's, Bonefish restaurants closing Milo Yiannopoulos book de
  
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