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• Huge Bomb Dropped In Afghanistan Made In McAlester

  13-04-2017 23:54
  
  The huge bomb dropped by the U.S. Air Force on an ISIS target in Afghanistan was probably built in McAlester.
  
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• Henryetta Schools Open New $3 Million STEM Center

  13-04-2017 23:45
  
  Henryetta students have new tools for learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.  
  
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• Smoke Concerns Washington County Residents

  13-04-2017 23:41
  
  The smoke that's filled the sky in Washington County has some people worried, but emergency managers said there's no need to be.  
  
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• FBI director: Public should know of agenda-driven fake news

  13-04-2017 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey said Americans should be aware of foreign efforts to undermine confidence in U.S. elections and mindful of the possibility that what they're reading might be
  
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• Detroit-area doctor charged with genital mutilation on girls

  13-04-2017 23:14
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A doctor was charged Thursday with performing genital mutilation on two young Minnesota girls who traveled to Michigan with their mothers, the first federal prosecution of what the gove
  
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• Uber may face fine over handling of drunk-driving complaints

  13-04-2017 23:13
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber could be fined $1.13 million for failing to investigate and/or suspend California drivers who are reported by a passenger to be intoxicated, according to an order filed by th
  
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• The Latest: Man with 70-year term leaves prison after recant

  13-04-2017 23:08
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Latest on a hearing for a man who's spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit (all times local):
  
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• Man who severed woman's arm with boat to work with amputees

  13-04-2017 23:08
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A man charged in a Boston Harbor boating accident that severed a 19-year-old woman's arm has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service working with amputees.
  
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• Report: Fugitive manifesto said 'We need to spill ... blood'

  13-04-2017 23:05
  
  JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin fugitive suspected of robbing a gun store and mailing an anti-government manifesto to the White House described the government as a gang of terrorists, writing th
  
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• 5 dead in Venezuela protests as movement gains steam

  13-04-2017 23:01
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets in wealthy eastern Caracas Thursday amid a tropical downpour to support a protest movement that is gaining steam even as it turns
  
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• Democrats pressure Trump to keep national monuments

  13-04-2017 22:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument.
  
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• Tulsa Voted Top City For Millennials; Representatives To Speak In NYC

  13-04-2017 22:58
  
  The city of Tulsa has a growing reputation as a haven for millennials, so now the Tulsa Chamber is going to New York City to tell others how we are making it happen.
  
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• Foreign adoptions to US families continue their long decline

  13-04-2017 22:58
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents dropped almost 5 percent last year, continuing a steady decline that's now extended for 12 years, according to new State Departme
  
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• Connecticut governor will not seek re-election to third term

  13-04-2017 22:57
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, known nationally for seeking stronger gun laws after the Newtown school shooting and for welcoming a Syrian refugee family rebuffed by then-Indiana Gov. M
  
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• US says countries must punish UN troops for sexual abuse

  13-04-2017 22:56
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday urged all countries that provide troops for U.N. peacekeeping missions to hold soldiers accountable for sexual abuse and exploitation, an
  
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• Union Public Schools teacher's poem about Oklahoma education woes featured on NPR

  13-04-2017 22:56
  
  Jenny Flower has committed to advocating for public schools this month by tweeting a poem every day in April for National Poetry Month. Her first poem was highlighted Saturday on NPR's "All Things Considered," which is encouraging listeners to share their Twitter poems this month using the hashtag #NPRpoetry.
  
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• Officials roll out 'Obamacare' fixes as repeal remains goal

  13-04-2017 22:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration released limited fixes Thursday for shaky health insurance markets, even as it reaffirmed its goal of dismantling the Obama-era law that created them and now
  
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• Democrats seek to resolve health payments on spending bill

  13-04-2017 22:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are up in arms over President Donald Trump's threats to deny payments to health insurers under Barack Obama's health care law.
  
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• Court: Judge can hear charges facing police in 137-shot case

  13-04-2017 22:55
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge in the city where two unarmed blacks died in a 137-shot barrage of Cleveland police gunfire can hear dereliction of duty charges against five police supervisors accused of fai
  
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• Colorado has backed off plans for marijuana clubs

  13-04-2017 22:55
  
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have backed off plans to regulate marijuana clubs, saying the state could invite a federal crackdown by approving Amsterdam-style pot clubs.
  
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• Lawyer: Dragged passenger lost 2 teeth and broke his nose

  13-04-2017 22:44
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The passenger dragged from a United flight lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and a concussion, his lawyer said Thursday, accusing the airline industry of having "bullied"
  
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• Police fire Georgia officer recorded kicking handcuffed man

  13-04-2017 22:43
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia police officer who was praised as courteous and professional last year was fired Thursday, less than 24 hours after authorities say he kicked a handcuffed man in the head.
  
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• Trump lets states block some Planned Parenthood money

  13-04-2017 22:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Further chipping away at his predecessor's legacy, President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday that lets states deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and ot
  
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• Activists to use Tax Day to tell Trump: Show us your returns

  13-04-2017 22:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers and activists plan to hit the streets Saturday at Tax Day protests around the country and demand President Donald Trump release his tax returns.
  
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• Law license of Philadelphia district attorney is suspended

  13-04-2017 22:38
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court is temporarily suspending the law license of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams as he awaits trial on federal bribery charges.
  
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• Jury in ex-NFL player's trial ends 5th day without verdict

  13-04-2017 22:33
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The jury in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has completed its fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
  
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• U.S. Drops 'Mother Of All Bombs' In Afghanistan, Marking Weapon's First Use

  13-04-2017 20:58
  
  The bomb, officially called a GBU-43, is known as the “mother of all bombs.” It is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and has never before been used in combat. 
  
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• Police Investigate After 13-Year-Old Tulsa Girl Escapes Abduction

  13-04-2017 20:41
  
  Tulsa Police are investigating an apparent attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl near Owen Park.
  
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• OSBI Seeks Tips In 2012 Okemah Homicide

  13-04-2017 20:33
  
  The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigating is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information that can help them solve a cold case homicide in Okemah.
  
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• Two Suspects In Custody After Tulsa Police Chase, Foot Pursuit

  13-04-2017 20:19
  
  Police arrested a man and woman following a midtown Tulsa chase and foot pursuit Thursday morning. 
  
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• Macron' singular life could help make him France's president

  13-04-2017 19:39
  
  LE TOUQUET-PARIS-PLAGE, France (AP) — From his teenage romance with a teacher to his recent ambition to become president, Emmanuel Macron often is described as unconventional and tenacious — traits th
  
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• Science bill won't open classrooms to 'wacko' theories, sponsor says as it advances from committee

  13-04-2017 19:30
  
  Senate Bill 393 by Sen. Josh Brecheen would encourage discussion "alternative theories" in science class, but opponents argue that it means almost anything could be taught as science and is a way of challenging principles such as evolution and climate science.
  
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• Delaware judge convicts girl in fatal school bathroom attack

  13-04-2017 19:29
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl was convicted Thursday of criminally negligent homicide in a school bathroom attack in Delaware that left a 16-year-old classmate dead.
  
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• Missouri's high court asked to resolve execution drug debate

  13-04-2017 19:23
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A media advocacy group and the American Civil Liberties Union are asking Missouri's highest court to settle whether the state's prison system must reveal the closely guarded so
  
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• Iowa voters say GOP lawmaker right to say no to health bill

  13-04-2017 19:18
  
  SIDNEY, Iowa (AP) — Rebuffing President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on their health care bill seemed like a major political misstep for Iowa Rep. David Young, who quickly was punished by a pol
  
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• Polish leader welcomes NATO troops, hails 'historic moment'

  13-04-2017 19:17
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish leaders welcomed a new multinational NATO battalion to Poland on Thursday, with the president calling it "a historic moment for my country."
  
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• Father convicted of murdering baby son for life insurance

  13-04-2017 19:16
  
  MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — A judge has convicted a Virginia father of murdering his 1-year-old son in an effort to collect on more than $500,000 in life insurance he had taken out on the boy.
  
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• Lawyer: United Passenger Suffered Broken Nose, Concussion

  13-04-2017 19:15
  
  United Airlines will likely face a lawsuit from David Dao, the doctor who was violently dragged off an overbooked flight on Sunday, Dao’s attorneys said in a wide-ranging press conference in Chicago Thursday.
  
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• Kentucky burning commercially grown hemp with too much THC

  13-04-2017 19:11
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky agriculture officials say they're burning a fraction of the hemp crop being grown for commercial purposes because it contains a higher level of a psychoactive compound
  
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• Judge mulls whether to allow Michigan Uber gunman's comments

  13-04-2017 19:11
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A judge is considering whether to allow statements at trial made by an Uber driver in Michigan accused of fatally shooting six strangers in between picking up riders.
  
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• Investigators say fear holding back info on killing of 8

  13-04-2017 19:09
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fear in the community is holding back information about the massacre of eight family members in southern Ohio nearly a year after the still-unsolved killings, investigators said
  
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• The Latest: Father convicted of murdering son for insurance

  13-04-2017 19:07
  
  MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a Virginia father charged with killing his 1-year-old son in an effort to collect on more than $500,000 in life insurance (all times local):
  
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• Canada introduces legislation to legalize marijuana

  13-04-2017 19:05
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government introduced legislation Thursday to let adults possess 30 grams of marijuana in public — a measure that would make Canada the largest
  
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• Virginia father found guilty of murdering 1-year-old son in effort to collect on more than $500,000 in life insurance

  13-04-2017 19:04
  
  MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Virginia father found guilty of murdering 1-year-old son in effort to collect on more than $500,000 in life insurance.
  
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• Pentagon: US dropped largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan

  13-04-2017 19:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan.
  
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• Man Arrested For Passing Counterfeit Money At Tulsa Store

  13-04-2017 19:01
  
  A 33-year-old Rogers, Arkansas man was arrested after police say he allegedly paid for clothing and footwear at a Tulsa store Wednesday evening with counterfeit $50 bills.
  
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• Sharing in 'Panama Papers' Pulitzer a thrill for Tulsa native, Memorial High alumnus

  13-04-2017 19:00
  
  Former Tulsan Ryan Chittum, a reporter for the nonprofit International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was part of the reporting team announced as a 2017 Pulitzer Prize recipient on Monday.
  
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• Pentagon: U.S. dropped largest non-nuclear bomb ever in Afghanistan

  13-04-2017 19:00
  
  Pentagon spokesman says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives. 
  
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• Oman's mountains may hold clues for reversing climate change

  13-04-2017 19:00
  
  WADI ABDAH, Oman (AP) — Deep in the jagged red mountains of Oman, geologists are searching for an efficient and cheap way to remove carbon dioxide from the air and oceans — and perhaps begin to revers
  
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