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• Illinois congressman holds Chicago immigration office sit-in

  13-03-2017 23:58
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez was briefly handcuffed Monday during a sit-in at federal immigration offices in Chicago where activists' demands included revocation of immigration-related exec
  
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• Education Advocates Urge State Lawmakers To Pass Education Budget

  13-03-2017 23:56
  
  Education advocates met with state lawmakers to tell them they have 18 days to pass an education budget, or they’ll be breaking the law.
  
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• Latest: Filmmaker defends use of surveillance video

  13-03-2017 23:55
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on reaction to footage from a new documentary on the 2014 Michael Brown police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, (all times local):
  
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• Agriculture nominee to distance himself from businesses

  13-03-2017 23:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture secretary nominee Sonny Perdue says he will step down from several positions at companies bearing his name, restructure family trusts and create blind trusts to avoid a c
  
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• OK Lawmakers Pass Bill To Take Back Part Of Tax Reduction

  13-03-2017 23:49
  
  The state senate nixed a planned "tax cut" as they scramble to bridge a massive budget deficit. Back in 2014, the legislature approved a two-part state income tax reduction package. On Monday, lawmakers passed a bill to take part of it back.
  
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• Case against ex-Los Angeles County sheriff goes to jury

  13-03-2017 23:49
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Monday in the federal corruption trial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca after prosecutors accused him in closing arguments of trying to stop a
  
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• The Latest: Democrats call budget report a 'knockout blow'

  13-03-2017 23:48
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the House GOP health care bill (all times EDT):
  
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• City officials discuss preservation of Turkey Mountain, River Parks system

  13-03-2017 23:45
  
  Most of the land managed by the River Parks Authority is owned by the city of Tulsa, which has many independent leases with the authority. Mayor G.T. Bynum's proposal would combine all those leases into a master lease that also would provide assurances for the long-term management of River Parks.
  
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• The Latest: Justice seeks more time on wiretapping inquiry

  13-03-2017 23:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EDT):
  
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• Water park eyed at ex-Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City

  13-03-2017 23:38
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Atlantic City casino where Steve Wynn used to make sure Frank Sinatra had enough towels may soon become an indoor water park and go-cart track.
  
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• Senate confirms Trump pick to head Medicare and Medicaid

  13-03-2017 23:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's pick to run Medicare and Medicaid won confirmation Monday from a divided Senate as lawmakers braced for another epic battle over the government's role in hea
  
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• Nowata County Sheriff's Office Seeks New Sheriff; Deals With Financial Crisis

  13-03-2017 23:34
  
  In addition to losing three top positions in just under two weeks, the Nowata County Sheriff’s Office is also facing a new financial crisis.
  
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• Lefties, techies long at odds in SF, team up against Trump

  13-03-2017 23:33
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before Donald Trump's election, Laurence Berland viewed political protest as a sort of curiosity. He was in a good place to see it: San Francisco's Mission District, once an immig
  
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• UK Parliament gives government power to begin EU exit

  13-03-2017 23:32
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain lurched closer to leaving the European Union Monday when Parliament stopped resisting and gave Prime Minister Theresa May the power to file for divorce from the bloc.
  
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• Arkansas lawmakers vote to ban videos of officers killed

  13-03-2017 23:28
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas legislators have approved a bill preventing the general release of dashcam video showing the death of a police officer in the line of duty.
  
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• Justice Dept. seeks more time to respond to congressional inquiry into unproven Trump wiretapping assertion

  13-03-2017 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Dept. seeks more time to respond to congressional inquiry into unproven Trump wiretapping assertion.
  
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• Is race important? Jury queried in Louisiana murder trial

  13-03-2017 23:25
  
  MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — The head of the Louisiana State Police called it the most disturbing thing he's seen: a 6-year-old autistic boy's lifeless body, strapped into the front seat of a car riddled wi
  
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• The Latest: Trial of ex-Los Angeles sheriff goes to jury

  13-03-2017 23:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the corruption trial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: 6 picked for officer's trial in boy's killing

  13-03-2017 23:21
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of an officer charged in a 6-year-old boy's shooting death (all times local):
  
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• Prosecutor: Film's edit of Ferguson video distorts incident

  13-03-2017 23:21
  
  CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch was critical Monday of store surveillance footage from a new documentary about the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, callin
  
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• Gathering Place Construction Having Positive Impact On Real Estate Market

  13-03-2017 23:18
  
  The real estate market surrounding Tulsa’s Gathering Place construction is booming.
  
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• The Latest: UK Parliament passes Brexit authorization bill

  13-03-2017 23:15
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest developments on Britain's decision to leave the European Union: (all times local):
  
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• Trump Administration Reverses Decision Banning Lead Ammo on Federal Land

  13-03-2017 23:11
  
  A ruling by President Donald Trump's new Interior Secretary is sparking debate. The move reverses an Obama-era decision to ban lead ammunition and sinkers on federal land and water.
  
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• Mississippi House retreats from Confederate flag mandate

  13-03-2017 23:10
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House on Monday halted a push to require that universities fly the state's Confederate-themed flag.
  
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• Road Rage Crash Injures Two, Tulsa Police Say

  13-03-2017 23:08
  
  Police blame a wreck that critically injured one person on road rage.
  
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• OK Man Being Tried For Sexual Assault Charged With Possession Of Child Porn

  13-03-2017 22:05
  
  An Oklahoma man recently bound over for trial in Wagoner County on child sexual assault charges is facing new charges.
  
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• Pathways Adult Learning Center In Tulsa Hosts Fundraising Event

  13-03-2017 21:42
  
  Pathways Adult Learning Center will host a Festival of Opportunity fundraising event next month. 
  
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• Hanson announces 25th anniversary tour dates, including Tulsa's Hop Jam 2017

  13-03-2017 21:34
  Multiple Grammy-nominated Oklahoma trio Hanson officially announced today its extensive "Middle Of Everywhere 25th Anniversary World Tour," including Europe and North America dates on sale today, with further legs in Australia and South America to be announced. The pop-rockers, who broke onto the music scene as teenagers with the 1997 global smash "MmmBop," will kick off the tour in their hometown of Tulsa with The Hop Jam 2017.
  
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• Danny Williams Sr. Resigns As Tulsa U.S. Attorney

  13-03-2017 21:34
  Tulsa U.S. Attorney Danny Williams Sr. announced his resignation, effective last Friday, March 10, 2017. Williams was the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma which covers 11 counties, including Tulsa.
  
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• Congress' Analyst: 14M Lose Coverage Under GOP Health Bill

  13-03-2017 21:31
  
  Nonpartisan analysts project that 14 million people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law.
  
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• DeVos promotes school choice, local control

  13-03-2017 21:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday sought to convince public school leaders that school choice and local control are important in education.
  
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• Turkey-Netherlands feud simmers as Dutch election looms

  13-03-2017 21:01
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed the Netherlands in its diplomatic fight with Turkey on Monday as NATO's chief called for alliance members to respect each other and the Eur
  
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• Tribal officer killed after encountering pair on rural road

  13-03-2017 21:00
  
  PREWITT, N.M. (AP) — A tribal police officer killed on a sprawling Native American reservation was shot after he encountered two people in a vehicle on a county road in the middle of the night, and a
  
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• Father arrested in alleged fatal shooting of daughter's ex-boyfriend, another teen

  13-03-2017 21:00
  
  Antonio Coburn Simmons, 46, of Tulsa, allegedly shot and killed the two teenagers and shot and injured another 19-year-old woman on Sunday evening at his residence, according to Tulsa Police homicide Sgt. Dave Walker.
  
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• The Latest: Trump holds first Cabinet meeting

  13-03-2017 20:51
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
  
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• Michigan governor, Canada official want input on trade

  13-03-2017 20:46
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and a Canadian official say they want to be heard as President Donald Trump seeks to refashion U.S. trading relationships with Canada and Mexico.
  
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• Attorney: deputy who shot unarmed man a 'coward'

  13-03-2017 20:46
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy shot an unarmed nurseryman not because he was threatened but because he's "a coward," an attorney for the man's family told a federal civil jury
  
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• Houston couple accused of hiring hit man to kill ex-partners

  13-03-2017 20:45
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston veterinarian and her boyfriend are accused of trying to hire an undercover police officer posing as a hit man to kill their former partners.
  
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• Road Rage Crash Injuries Two, Tulsa Police Say

  13-03-2017 20:42
  
  Multiple agencies responded to a wreck on 41st Street near Highway 169 Monday morning.
  
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• Omaha man faces competency exam before death penalty hearing

  13-03-2017 20:42
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered tests to determine whether a former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to an Omaha medical school is competent to face a death penalty hearing.
  
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• Arkansas official: State has drugs to conduct 8 executions

  13-03-2017 20:40
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has a new supply of a lethal injection drug that expired earlier this year, a prison spokesman said Monday, clearing the way for four double executions that will put
  
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• Prosecutor, store lawyer say Ferguson video edited for film

  13-03-2017 20:39
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Surveillance video showing Michael Brown in a Ferguson, Missouri, convenience store in the early hours of the day he was fatally shot by a police officer was heavily edited by a d
  
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• Few clues on how a Justice Gorsuch would vote on immigration

  13-03-2017 20:38
  
  If Neil Gorsuch wins confirmation to the Supreme Court, he could cast the deciding vote on President Donald Trump's travel ban against immigrants from certain countries. But it's far from certain how
  
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• Spectra Energy to buy stake in $1.2B PennEast pipeline plan

  13-03-2017 20:34
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's largest utility has found a buyer for its stake in a pipeline project that's designed to carry Marcellus Shale natural gas from northern Pennsylvania to New Jersey.
  
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• Napolitano picks first woman to serve as Berkeley chancellor

  13-03-2017 20:34
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — University of California President Janet Napolitano has selected Carol T. Christ to become the next chancellor of UC Berkeley and the first woman to serve in the position.
  
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• Iowa congressman criticized for racially charged comments

  13-03-2017 20:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and some Republicans on Monday criticized a veteran GOP congressman for saying America can't restore "our civilization with somebody else's babies" and warning of a liberal
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutor says Ferguson video heavily edited

  13-03-2017 20:30
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on reaction to footage from a new documentary on the 2014 Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, (all times local):
  
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• Carlos the Jackal regrets not killing 'people I should have'

  13-03-2017 20:25
  
  PARIS (AP) — Once the world's most-wanted fugitive, the man known as "Carlos the Jackal" appeared in a French court Monday for a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade, a trial that victims' fa
  
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• Court: Discrimination against gay workers not prohibited

  13-03-2017 20:17
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — In a setback for gay rights advocates hoping for an expansion of workplace discrimination protections, a federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled that employers aren't prohibited from
  
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• The Latest: Jurors questioned for deputy in boy's shooting

  13-03-2017 20:16
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of an officer charged in a 6-year-old boy's shooting death (all times local):
  
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