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• Reps. Pass Education Legislation Before Five-Day Weekend

  14-03-2017 23:57
  
  The state House of Representatives wrapped up early for the week to enjoy spring break, leaving a lot of unfinished business on the table.   
  
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• Cameroon: 5,000 people freed from Boko Haram since January

  14-03-2017 23:45
  
  YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — More than 5,000 people, including women and children, have been freed from extremist captivity and at least 60 Boko Haram fighters have been killed by Cameroonian and Nigerian
  
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• Autopsy: Infant born to faith healer died from prematurity

  14-03-2017 23:44
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's chief medical examiner said Tuesday that an infant born to members of a church that practices faith healing died from complications of prematurity as authorities conduct
  
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• Advocates call for paper ballots in Georgia amid FBI review

  14-03-2017 23:44
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A group of technology experts said Tuesday that Georgia's top elections officials should stop using electronic voting machines as the FBI reviews a suspected data breach.
  
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• Retired Navy admiral among 9 indicted in bribery case

  14-03-2017 23:41
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A retired Navy admiral was among nine high-ranking military officers arrested Tuesday across the country in a burgeoning bribery scandal involving a Malaysian defense contractor nickn
  
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• Congress sends Trump drug test measure for unemployed

  14-03-2017 23:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has sent President Donald Trump a measure to expand the number of applicants for jobless benefits who can be drug-tested.
  
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• Official: Sanders shares blame for minors voting in primary

  14-03-2017 23:40
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials on Tuesday blamed undertrained poll workers and Sen. Bernie Sanders' social media posts for dozens of instances in which 17-year-olds managed to vote
  
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• State lawmaker investigated after teenage boy found in his hotel room, DA says

  14-03-2017 23:38
  
  Ralph Shortey, R-Oklahoma City, was questioned Monday by Moore police, the DA said.
  
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• Weather Service decided last minute not to cut snow forecast

  14-03-2017 23:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Before the first snow fell, U.S. meteorologists realized there was a good chance the late-winter storm wasn't going to produce giant snow totals in big Northeast cities as predicted.
  
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• Rutte vs. Wilders puts Dutch elections in a stark light

  14-03-2017 23:37
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Amid unprecedented international attention, the Dutch go to the polls Wednesday in a parliamentary election that is seen as a bellwether for the future of populism in a y
  
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• Event linked to French candidate Macron under investigation

  14-03-2017 23:17
  
  PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected favoritism surrounding an event in Las Vegas promoted by presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron last year, the Pa
  
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• US says Colombia's coca production surges to record levels

  14-03-2017 23:14
  
  PUERTO BELLO, Colombia (AP) — Coca production in Colombia has surged to levels unseen in two decades of U.S. eradication efforts, according to a White House report released Tuesday.
  
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• Defiant conservatives still fighting Trump's health bill

  14-03-2017 23:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Undaunted by fellow Republicans' defiance, GOP leaders and the White House redoubled their efforts Tuesday to muscle legislation overhauling America's health care system through Cong
  
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• OAS head urges bloc suspend Venezuela over elections

  14-03-2017 23:08
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The head of the Organization of American States is recommending to regional governments that Venezuela be suspended from the Washington-based group unless general elections are
  
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• It's a congressional road trip _ and stab at bipartisanship

  14-03-2017 23:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a congressional road trip — and a stab at bipartisanship.
  
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• More Indoor, Outdoor Tennis Courts Planned For LaFortune Park

  14-03-2017 23:01
  
  Tulsa County Parks are doing better financially and planning an expansion to satisfy the growing demand for tennis courts.
  
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• Votes by Senate show preference for eliminating income tax cut trigger rather than changing it

  14-03-2017 23:00
  
  SB 130, which was voted down Tuesday, would require state revenue to hit $7.5 billion plus the cost of the tax cut before the top income tax rate could go down to 4.85 percent. The Senate had passed a bill Monday to eliminate the trigger altogether.
  
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• 'Road kill' litters governor's alternative Facebook headline

  14-03-2017 22:53
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An alternative headline on Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's Facebook page has been littered by "road kill."
  
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• The Latest: Trump expected to roll back fuel economy rules

  14-03-2017 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EDT):
  
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• Somali pirates demand ransom for oil tanker, EU force says

  14-03-2017 22:48
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Armed men are demanding a ransom for the release of an oil tanker they have seized off the coast of Somalia and the crew is being held captive, the European Union anti-piracy
  
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• Final defendant sentenced in assault of five people, including two children, with BB gun in Sand Springs

  14-03-2017 22:45
  
  District Judge Sharon Holmes handed down a five-year suspended sentence Tuesday morning for 20-year-old Thomas Evans of Broken Arrow for each of five charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, but ordered each of the sentences to run concurrently.
  
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• Pilot reunites with air controllers who guided her in crisis

  14-03-2017 22:44
  
  PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — Unable to move her throttle, the pilot of a small plane found herself over the world's busiest airport with the flashing lights of firetrucks gathering on the runway below,
  
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• Kansas considers taking over federal workplace regulation

  14-03-2017 22:40
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas lawmakers want the state to take over the job of writing and enforcing workplace regulations, despite concerns by a labor rights group that the change could water down
  
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• Oklahoma Sheriffs Say Removal Of State Inmates From County Jails Will Be Devastating

  14-03-2017 22:31
  
  In order to save money, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is removing state inmates from 10 county jails across the state. But the Sheriffs in those counties say it will be devastating to their departments. They were at the Capitol on Tuesday, talking to lawmakers about the dire circumstances they are facing without state prisoners and the money they bring in.
  
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• Coincidental Meeting Reunites OK Woman With Late Grandfather’s Burial Site

  14-03-2017 22:22
  
  What do a Sapulpa gas station and a biker group from France have in common? For one Muskogee woman, it's the missing piece of her family tree.
  
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• Unmarked TPD Gang-Unit Vehicle Involved In Crash

  14-03-2017 21:08
  
  A Tulsa Police unmarked vehicle was involved in a crash on Martin Luther King at East Victoria Street. 
  
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• Youngest spelling bee champ visits Oklahoma House of Representatives

  14-03-2017 21:00
  
  Edith Fuller, the 5-year-old champion of the Green Country Spelling Bee, is the youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
  
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• The Latest: Verma sworn in to run Medicare, Medicaid

  14-03-2017 20:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
  
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• Company asks judge to reject tribal plea on oil pipeline

  14-03-2017 20:57
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company building the Dakota Access pipeline has asked a federal judge to reject the latest attempt by two American Indian tribes to halt the project, with oil likely to begin
  
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• Blind woman says she and guide dog were kicked off airplane

  14-03-2017 20:57
  
  FRANKLIN, Maine (AP) — A blind woman from Maine says she and her service dog were kicked off an American Airlines flight after she requested a different seat.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Late-season storm stuns Northeast with snow, wind

  14-03-2017 20:56
  
  A powerful nor'easter hit the Northeast on Tuesday after a largely uneventful winter, dropping up to 2 feet of snow in some places, grounding thousands of flights and leading to school and work closur
  
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• AP Interview: US hails UN plan to monitor fentanyl market

  14-03-2017 20:54
  
  VIENNA (AP) — The chief U.S. State Department counter-narcotics official on Tuesday hailed a pending United Nations move to control substances used to make a deadly synthetic drug, but acknowledged it
  
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• Libya's eastern parliament speaker says Russia offered aid

  14-03-2017 20:52
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The speaker of the parliament based in the eastern part of Libya says Russia has promised military assistance.
  
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• The Latest: Snowplows escort child needing heart transplant

  14-03-2017 20:49
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a strong winter storm hitting the Northeast (all times local):
  
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• Democrats say Trump's pick for trade post needs waiver

  14-03-2017 20:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as they praised him, Senate Democrats said Tuesday that Donald Trump's pick to represent the U.S. in trade negotiations needs a waiver from Congress to legally hold the job beca
  
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• Tulsa Father Sentenced For A Throwing Knife, Hitting Son During Fight

  14-03-2017 20:41
  
  In a plea deal, a 34-year-old Tulsa man will be headed to prison for 25 years for throwing a knife at his wife during a domestic dispute, hitting his son instead.
  
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• Officer argues he's broke, asks for public defender

  14-03-2017 20:36
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The former South Carolina police officer charged with killing an unarmed black man running from a traffic stop has asked a judge to allow a publicly funded lawyer to represent
  
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• Fired US attorney in Manhattan replaced by longtime friend

  14-03-2017 20:33
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Preet Bharara, the high-profile federal prosecutor who was fired by President Donald Trump's administration after refusing to resign, has been replaced temporarily by a longtime friend
  
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• Besieged areas in Syria get aid for the first time in months

  14-03-2017 20:30
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Trucks carrying food and other aid began entering four besieged areas in Syria on Tuesday for the first time in months, offering hope to tens of thousands of residents.
  
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• Jordanian woman charged in US with 2001 Jerusalem bombing

  14-03-2017 20:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Jordanian woman has been charged in connection with a 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizza restaurant that killed 15 people and injured dozens of others.
  
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• Texas man sentenced for forcing daughter into prostitution

  14-03-2017 20:26
  
  BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — A Houston-area man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for forcing his teenage daughter to work as a prostitute.
  
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• EPA delays chemical storage rule amid terrorism fear

  14-03-2017 20:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is delaying a new rule tightening safety requirements for companies that store large quantities of dangerous chemicals. The rule was imposed after a fertiliz
  
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• 'A real kick in the rear': Northeast hit by late-season snow

  14-03-2017 20:18
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A blustery, late-season storm clobbered the Northeast with sleet and heavy snow Tuesday, crippling much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor after a stretch of unusually mild winter we
  
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• Trump likely to revisit Andrew Jackson legacy in Nashville

  14-03-2017 20:15
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In his first days in the White House, Donald Trump hung a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office and likened his new administration to that of the snowy-haired man pictu
  
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• Police in California shoot and kill man in parking lot

  14-03-2017 20:12
  
  NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Police shot and killed a man in California who was armed with a knife and acting "high" or "crazy" in a parking lot, authorities said.
  
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• Wildfires in Oklahoma, Kansas now 63 percent contained

  14-03-2017 20:03
  
  OFS says firefighters continued patrolling the fires Tuesday, putting out hotspots and working to improve containment of the flames that have burned a total of more than 1,200 square miles.
  
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• Pelosi calls for GOP to strip King of chairmanship

  14-03-2017 20:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top House Democrat on Tuesday called on Republican leaders to strip Iowa Rep. Steve King of a chairmanship after his inflammatory comments about immigration.
  
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• Former jail administrator's testimony conflicts with her 2013 opinion that Elliott Williams wasn't faking paralysis

  14-03-2017 20:00
  
  Former Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Michelle Robinette testified Tuesday she still does not know whether Elliott Williams was faking paralysis in the days leading to his death in a holding cell. In a 2013 sworn deposition, she stated she did not believe he was feigning his condition. 
  
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• Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Tulsa County Jail Mental Health Provider

  14-03-2017 19:55
  
  The estate of a Tulsa County jail inmate who died after a suicide attempt last March filed a wrongful death suit on Monday. 
  
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• EPA Delays Chemical Storage Rule, Cites Terrorism Fear

  14-03-2017 19:28
  
  The Trump administration is delaying a new rule tightening safety requirements for companies that store large quantities of dangerous chemicals.
  
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