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• New Philbrook Exhibit Created With 7,500 Strands Of Yarn

  22-03-2017 23:49
  
  A new exhibit is drawing a lot of attention at the Philbrook Museum of Art. 
  
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• Spying claims by Intel chair renews fight over Russia probe

  22-03-2017 23:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Private communications of Donald Trump and his presidential transition team may have been scooped up by American intelligence officials monitoring other targets and improperly distri
  
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• 19-year-old candidate heads to runoff in city council race

  22-03-2017 23:43
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A 19-year-old candidate seeking a council seat in a newly formed city in Georgia is headed to a runoff election next month.
  
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• Police: White sword killer went to NY to attack black people

  22-03-2017 23:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A white U.S. Army veteran from Baltimore bent on making a racist attack took a bus to New York, the "media capital of the world," randomly picked out a black man who was collecting bot
  
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• Hard times for Sears as retailer notes doubt about future

  22-03-2017 23:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sears, a back-to-school shopping destination for generations of kids, has said that after years of losing money that there is "substantial doubt" it will be able to keep its doors open
  
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• Arkansas governor expands where concealed guns allowed

  22-03-2017 23:42
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' governor signed a sweeping gun rights measure into law on Wednesday that will allow concealed handguns at state colleges, some bars, government buildings and even th
  
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• The Latest: Gorsuch flatters senators as questioning wraps

  22-03-2017 23:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch: (all times EDT):
  
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• Correction: Endangered Seal Death-Aquaculture story

  22-03-2017 23:36
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — In a story March 17, about an endangered Hawaiian Monk seal dying in a fish farm pen, The Associated Press reported erroneously a funding source for the farm. The farm, Blue Ocean Mari
  
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• The Latest: Mayor: Sword killing 'unspeakable human tragedy'

  22-03-2017 23:35
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sword attack death of a black man in what police say was a racially motivated killing (all times local):
  
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• Agency: California farmers will get bump in irrigation water

  22-03-2017 23:35
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Farmers in a vast agricultural region of California will receive a significantly greater amount of irrigation water this summer compared to past drought years — but not their ful
  
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• The Latest: Police says 5 people died in London attack

  22-03-2017 23:34
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the incident outside Britain's parliament (all times local):
  
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• Arabs protest UN's withdrawal of Israel 'apartheid' report

  22-03-2017 23:33
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An Arab delegation has met with the U.N. secretary-general to protest what Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour calls the "bullying tactics and intimidation" that led to U.N. wit
  
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• Leaders need votes for health bill on eve of House showdown

  22-03-2017 23:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Their top legislative priority dangling in peril, President Donald Trump and Republican leaders cajoled recalcitrant GOP lawmakers Wednesday to back their health care overhaul. A day
  
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• Gorsuch to Democrats: No return to 'horse and buggy' era

  22-03-2017 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Assured of support from majority Republicans, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was wrapping up two days of Senate questioning Wednesday to glowing GOP reviews but complaints from f
  
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• Black lawmakers say they had candid conversation with Trump

  22-03-2017 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Black lawmakers emerged from a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday saying the president was at least willing to listen to their concerns that his poli
  
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• She thought someone passed out drunk. Then she saw a uniform

  22-03-2017 23:26
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A woman living in a small community on the edge of the nation's largest American Indian reservation saw flashing police lights down the road from her home one night and assume
  
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• Vegas cab driver arrested after sex assault seen on video

  22-03-2017 23:25
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials say a Las Vegas cab company looking for a woman's cellphone found, instead, surveillance video footage of their taxi driver sexually assaulting the customer while she was pa
  
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• Judge: Louisiana law violates refugee's right to marry

  22-03-2017 23:14
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A year ago, a state law blocked a U.S. citizen born in a refugee camp from getting married in Louisiana. A court victory Wednesday means the man and his fiancee are free to make wed
  
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• Police: Officer among victims in northern Wisconsin shooting; injuries not disclosed

  22-03-2017 23:12
  
  ROTHSCHILD, Wis. (AP) — Police: Officer among victims in northern Wisconsin shooting; injuries not disclosed.
  
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• Senate votes to block Labor Department rule

  22-03-2017 23:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Senate is blocking an Obama-era rule that critics said would have led to excessive citations for workplace safety record-keeping violations.
  
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• Rep. Jim Bridenstine says he'll vote for health care bill

  22-03-2017 23:10
  
  At least two other Oklahoma representatives, Tom Cole and Markwayne Mullin, have said they will vote for the bill, which has come in for broad criticism from both the left and the right.
  
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• Ex-Penn St official: 'I should have done more' in abuse case

  22-03-2017 23:10
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two former senior administrators at Penn State testified Wednesday they regret how they handled a 2001 complaint about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy, more than a week afte
  
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• Lawmakers want details on Flynn's foreign contacts, payments

  22-03-2017 23:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday in pressuring the Trump administration to surrender records of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's payments and contacts with f
  
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• Republicans rebelling against health care risk Trump's wrath

  22-03-2017 23:01
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hard-line House Republicans considering voting against the House GOP health bill are bracing for payback from a president who claims his favorite biblical passage is "an eye for an eye
  
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• Life sentence upheld for father who tossed girl into creek

  22-03-2017 23:00
  
  FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey appeals court has upheld the life sentence of a man who threw his 2-year-old daughter into a creek while she was strapped into her car seat and weighed down by a tir
  
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• Tulsa Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday

  22-03-2017 22:18
  
  A longtime member of the Tulsa Model A Ford Club celebrated her 100th birthday this month.
  
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• Tulsa Toddler Suffered Massive Brain Trauma, Skull Fracture Prior To Death

  22-03-2017 22:09
  
  A Tulsa 2-year-old died Tuesday night from injuries he received at the hands of the woman who was watching him, just one day after he was dropped off at a hospital and left there by the woman. 
  
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• Trump Communications May Have Ended Up In "Incidental Collection," Says Intel Chair

  22-03-2017 20:38
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes revealed Wednesday that it’s possible that President Trump’s personal communications might have been picked up by the intelligence community through “incidental collection.” 
  
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• Oklahoma Lawmaker Charged With Child Prostitution Resigns

  22-03-2017 20:00
  
  An Oklahoma legislator charged with hiring a 17-year-old boy for sex resigned on Wednesday, saying he didn't want to be a distraction to his fellow lawmakers. 
  
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• The Latest: UK lawmaker hailed as hero for helping policeman

  22-03-2017 19:59
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the incident outside Britain's parliament (all times local):
  
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• Supreme Court wrestles with California police shooting case

  22-03-2017 19:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday stepped in to the national conversation on police practices, wrestling with a California police shooting case where sheriff's deputies shot an innocent
  
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• 4 dead in vehicle, knife attack near British Parliament

  22-03-2017 19:54
  
  LONDON (AP) — A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage at the heart of Britain's seat of power Wednesday, mowing down pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge before stabbing an armed police of
  
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• Oregon teen's mom: Feds should probe fatal police shooting

  22-03-2017 19:51
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of an Oregon teenager who was fatally shot by a Portland police officer is demanding a federal Justice Department investigation into her son's death.
  
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• Trump's SEC pick, an ex-Goldman lawyer, to face skepticism

  22-03-2017 19:47
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Goldman Sachs may be about to get another friend in Washington.
  
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• The Latest: Cruz needles Democrats over criticism of judges

  22-03-2017 19:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch: (all times EDT):
  
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• Top prosecutor pleads not guilty in gifts-for-favors case

  22-03-2017 19:45
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city's top prosecutor pleaded not guilty at his federal court arraignment on bribery and extortion charges on Wednesday.
  
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• Trump lawyers ask court to move quickly on travel ban appeal

  22-03-2017 19:42
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump's administration is asking a U.S. court to quickly hear its appeal of a ruling that blocked the president's revised travel ban.
  
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• Idaho man who didn't match murder DNA freed after 20 years

  22-03-2017 19:41
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man who experts say was coerced into a false murder confession is now free after spending half of his life behind bars.
  
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• WH distances Trump from Manafort after AP report

  22-03-2017 19:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is distancing itself from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, saying his secret work for a Russian billionaire detailed in an Associated Press report happen
  
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• Sex offender admits groping woman on international flight

  22-03-2017 19:39
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A registered sex offender has admitted that he improperly touched a sleeping woman aboard a flight from Israel to the U.S.
  
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• TPD Seeks Identity Of Man Who Exposed Himself Inside Store

  22-03-2017 19:37
  
  Tulsa Police Department Sex Crimes detectives are requesting the public's help in identifying a man who they said followed women inside a store then exposed himself.  
  
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• Police: Man accused of murder came to NYC to target blacks

  22-03-2017 19:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A 28-year-old white man from Baltimore accused of stabbing a 66-year-old black man to death traveled by bus to New York City to the "media capital of the world" to make the biggest spl
  
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• Four Dead In Car Rampage, Knife Attack In London

  22-03-2017 19:33
  
  Four people died in a car rampage and knife attack in London, including a police officer guarding Parliament and an attacker, police said. 
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutor pleads not guilty in bribery case

  22-03-2017 19:31
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on a bribery and extortion indictment against Philadelphia's district attorney (all times local):
  
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• Sears, once a stalwart, has "substantial doubt" about future

  22-03-2017 19:30
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sears, a back-to-school shopping destination for generations of kids and the place newlyweds went to choose appliances, has said that after years of losing money that there is "substan
  
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• Embattled state Sen. Ralph Shortey resigns from the Legislature

  22-03-2017 19:30
  
  Shortey is facing engaging in prostitution charges in Cleveland County.
  
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• Ex-pharmacy exec convicted in deadly meningitis outbreak

  22-03-2017 19:28
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The former head of a Massachusetts pharmacy was acquitted Wednesday of murder allegations but convicted of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungu
  
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• Mom: Teen daughter afraid to come home after Chicago attack

  22-03-2017 19:24
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a 15-year-old girl who authorities say was sexually assaulted in an attack streamed live on Facebook said Wednesday that her daughter has received online threats since it
  
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• Ex-Pennsylvania official pleads guilty in corruption probe

  22-03-2017 19:24
  
  The former top administrator in Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a federal pay-to-play corruption probe that already has snared several other city officials and appears to be inchi
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump and his unachieved achievements

  22-03-2017 19:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking credit for persuading TransCanada Corp. to withdraw a hefty lawsuit against the U.S. government over the previous administration's rejection of the K
  
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