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• High Bidders Haul Off Winnings From Tulsa’s Spaghetti Warehouse

  12-05-2017 23:50
  
  Tulsa’s Spaghetti Warehouse closed in March, and this week, high bidders in an online auction hauled off all the pieces.
  
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• Fatal Wreck Closes Route 66 In Creek County

  12-05-2017 23:42
  
  The Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed the intersection of Route 66 and Highway 48 in Creek County because of a fatal wreck.
  
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• Switching To Self-Pay Workers Comp Saving Claremore Thousands

  12-05-2017 23:27
  
  The City of Claremore has come up with a way to save hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s being done through a self-pay workers comp.
  
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• The Latest: Russian Interior Ministry is hit by cyberattack

  12-05-2017 22:10
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on reported cyberattack on Britain's hospitals (all times local):
  
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• Sheriff accused of exposing himself apologizes to public

  12-05-2017 21:58
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia sheriff accused of exposing himself in a public park in Atlanta has apologized to his constituents but said he plans to remain in his job.
  
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• Trump celebrates student model rocket named ... Trump

  12-05-2017 21:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is celebrating a student model rocket named after ... him.
  
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• Rain forecast 'too light' to quench vast wildfire in Georgia

  12-05-2017 21:57
  
  FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) — A vast wildfire burning near the Georgia-Florida line may see rainfall this weekend, but officials say it won't be enough to quench any flames.
  
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• Captain of shipwrecked Costa cruise liner heads to jail

  12-05-2017 21:57
  
  ROME (AP) — The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid Friday.
  
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• The Latest: Nearly a dozen among FBI director candidates

  12-05-2017 21:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the FBI (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Governor: Flags at half-staff after shootings

  12-05-2017 21:50
  
  KIRKERSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shootings of an Ohio police chief and two nursing home employees (all times local):
  
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• Seeking employment: Terrorist who flipped on al-Qaida

  12-05-2017 21:50
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — As mid-career resumes go, this one's a doozy: Bryant Neal Vinas tried to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, advised al-Qaida on potential bombing targets, then morphed into a prized informer for the U.S. government.
  
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• Polar opposites Trump, McConnell need each other now

  12-05-2017 21:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had just headlined a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was booed by home-state voters far more enamored with the president than with their longtime GOP senator.
  
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• Man who held cops at bay for 35 hours is charged with murder

  12-05-2017 21:46
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A man who held officers at bay for 35 hours in a standoff in New Jersey was charged Friday with killing a bystander.
  
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• IMF reaches staff-level agreement on second payment to Egypt

  12-05-2017 21:45
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has reached a staff-level agreement on a second payment that would make $1.25 billion available to Egypt and bring its total disbursements to about $4 billion.
  
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• The Latest: Police ID 2 killed along with Arkansas deputy

  12-05-2017 21:42
  
  DARDANELLE, Ark. (AP) — The Latest on deaths of a sheriff's deputy and two others in rural Arkansas (all times local):
  
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• Federal rail agency agrees Penn Station work urgently needed

  12-05-2017 21:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Railroad Administration agrees with Amtrak's assessment that immediate track maintenance and repair efforts are needed at Penn Station.
  
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• Immigrant leaves Denver church after winning delay from feds

  12-05-2017 21:39
  
  DENVER (AP) — A Mexican immigrant who lived in a Denver church for three months to avoid deportation walked away on Friday after her supporters said immigration officials gave her two more years to resolve her effort to stay in…
  
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• Police: Man performed lewd act after stopping van in tunnel

  12-05-2017 21:35
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a man high on drugs stopped his van in the middle of a tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey to fondle himself.
  
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• Candidates trade blows as Iran's presidential election nears

  12-05-2017 21:33
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered a full-throated defense Friday of his opening the country to the world through the nuclear deal as his opponents sought to sully his reputation in the last televised debate before the…
  
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• Legal challenged filed against second Fallin appointment to Workers’ Compensation Commission

  12-05-2017 21:30
  
  Meanwhile, Fallin's appointments of Jordan K. Russell and Megan B. Tilly to the Workers' Compensation Commission are headed to the full Senate. Both were approved Friday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  
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• Sally Jacobsen, AP's first female international editor, dies

  12-05-2017 21:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sally Jacobsen, a widely experienced Associated Press correspondent who became the first woman to serve as the news service's international editor, overseeing with a cool, steady hand coverage of wars, terrorism and a daily stream of…
  
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• Sister of accused killer in Arkansas says he's mentally ill

  12-05-2017 21:26
  
  DARDANELLE, Ark. (AP) — The sister of a man accused of killing an Arkansas sheriff's deputy and two other people says she spoke to him by phone while he held a woman hostage during a five-hour standoff with law enforcement.
  
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• GOP leaders dismiss Comey firing as fleeting political drama

  12-05-2017 21:25
  
  CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — Chaos is President Donald Trump's style, yet as long as the Republican delivers on health care, taxes and tapping a new FBI director as solid as his Supreme Court pick, GOP leaders say everything will be…
  
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• Head of NYC jails resigns after flap over ethical lapses

  12-05-2017 21:24
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The head of New York City's troubled jail system resigned his post Friday, after he was criticized for using his city-owned SUV to repeatedly drive to vacations in Maine.
  
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• Second EF-1 Tornado On Thursday Confirmed SE Of Oologah

  12-05-2017 21:17
  
  The National Weather Service damage survey team has confirmed an EF-1 tornado four miles southeast of Oologah in Rogers County on Thursday.
  
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• Forecasters confirm tornado touchdown in Owasso

  12-05-2017 21:07
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• Owasso Residents Start Assessing Damage From EF-1 Tornado

  12-05-2017 19:59
  
  Oklahoma's Insurance Commissioner John Doak visited Owasso Friday as residents began to assess damage from Thursday's EF-1 tornado.  News On 6 was also back in Owasso to get a closer look at the damage. 
  
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• State Rests On Day 5 Of The Betty Shelby Trial

  12-05-2017 19:29
  
  The state has rested in Tulsa Police officer Betty Shelby's manslaughter trial on Day 5.  
  
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• Oklahoma Lawmakers Suggest Turning 82,000 Students Over To Feds

  12-05-2017 18:43
  A proposal by a newly formed caucus of Republican legislators at the state capitol has received swift and harsh backlash after they suggested rounding up more tens of thousands of students to be screened for deportation. The proposal, made by the newly formed GOP Platform Caucus with an unknown number members, was found in the faction's list of suggestions to fill the state's $878 million budget hole.
  
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• NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

  12-05-2017 18:14
  
  A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. AP checked these out; here are the real facts:
  
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• As Trump seeks billions for wall, US still paying for fence

  12-05-2017 18:12
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump tries to persuade a skeptical Congress to fund his proposed multibillion-dollar wall on the Mexican border, government lawyers are still settling claims with Texas landowners over a border fence approved more than a…
  
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• Lawsuit: Execution drug will cause unconstitutional pain

  12-05-2017 18:09
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's lethal injection drug carries a substantial risk of causing unconstitutional suffering for an inmate scheduled to die Tuesday, and execution by firing squad is the only appropriate alternative, his lawyers argue.
  
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• Iran's Rouhani faces renewed charges as election looms

  12-05-2017 18:06
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rivals of President Hassan Rouhani in the May 19 poll have renewed accusations of corruption and mismanagement against him during the last of three televised debates.
  
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• Congo announces 9 suspected Ebola cases, including 3 deaths

  12-05-2017 18:03
  
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Health authorities are investigating nine suspected cases of Ebola in a remote corner of northern Congo, including three deaths, the country's health minister and the World Health Organization said Friday.
  
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• The Latest: Spain also reports ransomware attack

  12-05-2017 17:59
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on reported cyberattack on Britain's hospitals (all times local):
  
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• State Reopens Two Flooded Tulsa County Highways

  12-05-2017 17:59
  
  The Oklahoma Department of Transportation says two Tulsa County highways closed Friday morning because of flooding have now been reopened.
  
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• Don't call me Caitlyn: Baby name plunges in popularity

  12-05-2017 17:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't call me Caitlyn.
  
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• Owasso Police Release Video Of Arrest Which Hurt Two Officers

  12-05-2017 17:52
  
  Owasso Police released body camera video of an arrest that resulted in two officers being seriously hurt. 
  
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• The Latest: Sessions' predecessor slams sentencing policy

  12-05-2017 17:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' directive to seek toughest charges possible (all times local):
  
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• UK hospitals turn away patients after ransomware attack

  12-05-2017 17:49
  
  LONDON (AP) — A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England on Friday, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away.
  
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• Trump lawyers push back against Russia ties in letter

  12-05-2017 17:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump said Friday that a review of his last 10 years of tax returns did not reflect "any income of any type from Russian sources," but the letter included exceptions related to previously…
  
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• Fired officer who refused to shoot suspect sues city

  12-05-2017 17:44
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia police officer who was fired after he refused to shoot a black man who had a gun last year says he was just trying to uphold his oath to protect and serve the…
  
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• Norway: object hitting rotor likely cause for chopper crash

  12-05-2017 17:42
  
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Norwegian authorities say initial investigation indicates that the likely cause for a helicopter accident on Norway's southwestern coast that left three Britons injured is a loose object from the chopper's fuel tank that hit a rotor.
  
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• Kurdish-led forces say they will advance on IS capital

  12-05-2017 17:37
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A Kurdish-led Syrian force backed by the U.S. expects to advance on the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria this summer, a commander said Friday, following a decision by the Trump administration…
  
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• Senior Walk Held At Tulsa's Eliot Elementary School

  12-05-2017 17:34
  
  Tulsa's Eliot Elementary held a senior walk Friday morning for 2017 graduates who got their start at the school.  
  
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• US, EU in urgent talks on expanding laptop ban on flights

  12-05-2017 17:25
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European governments are holding urgent talks Friday with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, alarmed at a proposed expansion of the U.S. ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from the EU.
  
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• The Latest: Illinois' Durbin says Trump is 'dangerous'

  12-05-2017 17:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the FBI (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Pope arrives in Portugal for Fatima trip

  12-05-2017 17:17
  
  FATIMA, Portugal (AP) — The Latest on Pope Francis' trip to Fatima shrine in Portugal (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Flames prevented officers from reaching children

  12-05-2017 17:17
  
  CONROE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a deadly house fire north of Houston (all times local):
  
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