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• Tulsa Humane Society In Bixby Refuses New Dogs Amid Air Conditioning Trouble

  25-07-2017 23:57
  
  Oppressively high temperatures are forcing the Tulsa Humane Society to stop accepting new dogs after their air conditioning unit started having trouble at their Bixby facility.
  
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• EMSA Issues Medical Heat Alert After 5 Suspected Heat-Related Calls

  25-07-2017 23:43
  
  EMSA issued a medical heat alert after responding to several suspected heat-related calls Tuesday.
  
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• Garfield County Officials Indicted In Connection With Jail Death

  25-07-2017 23:39
  
  Six Garfield County officials, including the Garfield County sheriff, have been indicted of second-degree manslaughter, according to unsealed indictments issued by the state's multicounty grand jury. 
  
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• The Latest: ICE says driver just part of smuggling operation

  25-07-2017 23:25
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Latest on the deaths of 10 people whose bodies were found in a broiling tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio (all times local):
  
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• Tulsa City Council's video service for meetings getting upgrade

  25-07-2017 23:19
  Residents will soon have a long-coming upgrade to the video service that allows many access to Tulsa City Council meetings and more at City Hall.
  
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• Report: NKorea's missile program farther along than believed

  25-07-2017 23:14
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence officials believe North Korea will have a reliable, intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as early as next year, according to a report published Tuesday amid a warning from a top Republican lawmaker who…
  
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• Judge rules New Jersey isn't liable in Bridgegate lawsuit

  25-07-2017 23:12
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled New Jersey can't be sued for the actions of some of its employees in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal.
  
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• Cosby accuser arrested on heroin charge at California jail

  25-07-2017 23:09
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A model who accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her at a Playboy Mansion party in 2008 has been arrested on suspicion of bringing heroin to a San Diego jail, officials said Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Health bill runs into questions on rules

  25-07-2017 23:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the effort by congressional Republicans to pass a health care bill (all times local):
  
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• What could happen if Jeff Sessions is pushed out of office?

  25-07-2017 23:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's withering invective about Jeff Sessions over the last week suggests an effort to pressure the attorney general into resigning with a possible eye toward replacing him and ending the Justice Department investigation into Russian…
  
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• EPA chief pledges to streamline Superfund pollution cleanups

  25-07-2017 23:03
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's environmental chief has issued a list of directives intended to "revitalize" the federal program that cleans up hazardous waste sites.
  
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• Funeral held for Marine killed in military plane crash

  25-07-2017 23:02
  
  COLTS NECK, N.J. (AP) — A Marine killed in a military plane crash in Mississippi has been laid to rest in New Jersey.
  
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• Celgene Corp. to pay $280M to settle cancer drug fraud suit

  25-07-2017 23:01
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A New Jersey pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $280 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it committed fraud promoting two cancer drugs for unapproved purposes.
  
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• Priest at center of clergy sex abuse scandal to be released

  25-07-2017 22:59
  BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say one of the most notorious figures in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal has completed his prison sentence on child rape charges and will be released this week.
  
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• Woman reaches $5M settlement with inmate in daughter's death

  25-07-2017 22:57
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman whose 9-year-old daughter was killed by a teenage neighbor in 2009 has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that requires the imprisoned killer to pay her more than $5 million.
  
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• The Latest: McCain calls on both parties to work together

  25-07-2017 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Arizona Sen. John McCain's return to Congress for the first time since being diagnosed with brain cancer (all times local):
  
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• Trump weighs re-nominating Yellen or choosing Cohn instead

  25-07-2017 22:54
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's considering either re-nominating Janet Yellen for a second term as Fed chair or replacing her with someone else, possibly Gary Cohn, who leads his National Economic Council.
  
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• Police: homeless woman set on fire by man, also homeless

  25-07-2017 22:54
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities in West Virginia say they've arrested a homeless man suspected of setting a woman on fire who is also homeless.
  
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• Tulsa Public Schools To Hold Job Fair At Rogers High School

  25-07-2017 22:47
  
  Tulsa Public Schools will hold a job fair Wednesday in an attempt to recruit teachers before the 2017-2018 school year starts on Aug. 21.
  
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• OHP: Man Jumps From Moving Bus Near Clinton

  25-07-2017 22:46
  
  The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a Wyoming man killed himself by jumping from the window of a moving bus on Interstate 40 near Clinton.
  
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• Senate roll call vote on health care

  25-07-2017 22:42
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The roll call Tuesday by which the Senate voted to move ahead on health care legislation with the goal of repealing and replacing Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Vice President Mike Pence voted to the break the…
  
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• 1,000 say goodbye to flash flood victims in 10 white caskets

  25-07-2017 22:41
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) — To the strains of "Ave Maria," more than 1,000 people said goodbye Tuesday to 10 members of an extended family who lost their lives in a flash flood while celebrating a birthday in Arizona.
  
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• Commission finds LA officers justified in killing of boy, 14

  25-07-2017 22:31
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A civilian oversight board has found Los Angeles police officers acted within policy in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy last year.
  
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• Midtown Tulsa Burglars Caught On Home Surveillance Video

  25-07-2017 22:23
  
  Homeowners are on the lookout after surveillance video caught footage of two people breaking into a midtown Tulsa home Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Family: Man in Missouri interstate shootout 'tortured soul'

  25-07-2017 22:20
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Relatives of the man who died during a shootout with police along a Missouri interstate say he was a "tortured soul" who finally cracked.
  
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• Uruguay: Ex-Gitmo detainee also tried to travel to Russia

  25-07-2017 22:19
  
  MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The government liaison for Guantanamo ex-detainees resettled in Uruguay says one of the men tried to travel to Russia recently in one of at least four attempts by him to leave the South American nation.
  
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• IRS sees big drop in identity theft, stolen tax refunds

  25-07-2017 22:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is seeing a big drop in the number of identity theft victims after the agency teamed up with tax preparers to fight the problem, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday.
  
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• Defense: Case against Chinese billionaire 'a big zero'

  25-07-2017 22:15
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer says evidence supporting charges accusing a Chinese billionaire of bribing two United Nations ambassadors to build a U.N. conference center amount to a "big zero."
  
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• The Latest: Trump, Lebanon leader pledge to fight terrorism

  25-07-2017 21:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the visit of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to the White House (all times local):
  
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• Chainsaw attack suspect arrested in Switzerland

  25-07-2017 21:41
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The suspect in a chainsaw attack on a health insurer's office in Switzerland that left five people wounded was caught on Tuesday after more than a day on the run, police said.
  
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• The Latest: Driver's commercial license was suspended

  25-07-2017 21:38
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Latest on the deaths of 10 people whose bodies were found in a broiling tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio (all times local):
  
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• Senate GOP Secures Votes To Open Debate On Health Care

  25-07-2017 21:37
  
  The Senate has voted to move ahead on health care legislation aimed at dismantling the Obama health law.
  
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• The Latest: Trump praises Senate for taking up health care

  25-07-2017 21:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the effort by congressional Republicans to pass a health care bill (all times local):
  
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• McCain returns to Congress to cheers from fellow senators

  25-07-2017 21:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Applause and whoops greeted Sen. John McCain, who is battling brain cancer, as he returned to the Capitol on Tuesday to vote for moving ahead on legislation to dismantle Obamacare
  
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• Guards: 2 unreported uprisings at troubled Kansas prison

  25-07-2017 21:32
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Inmates at a Kansas prison housing some of the state's most dangerous criminals twice took control of the prison yard for hours in recent months, setting a fire, trying to create barricades and breaking into a…
  
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• Trump shows the Boy Scouts how to start a political fire

  25-07-2017 21:28
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — No knot-tying demonstrations. No wood-carving advice. President Donald Trump went straight to starting a fire in a speech at a national Boy Scouts gathering.
  
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• Confederate statue moved from courthouse in Maryland

  25-07-2017 21:26
  ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A statue of a Confederate cavalryman has been removed from outside a courthouse in Maryland and placed near where a privately run Potomac River ferry named for a Confederate general docks.
  
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• Boat captain leaps into sea to save crew after capsizing

  25-07-2017 21:26
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A fishing boat captain jumped into cold, choppy waters to save two of his crew members after their vessel capsized off the Alaska coast.
  
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• Trump, Lebanese leader pledge solidarity against terrorism

  25-07-2017 21:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri pledged solidarity Tuesday in their joint fight against terrorism by the Islamic State group and others.
  
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• Schwarzenegger joins Jerry Brown as he extends climate bill

  25-07-2017 21:18
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, he backed environmental legislation that led to one of the world's most closely watched initiatives in the fight against global warming.
  
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• The Latest: McCain casts vote to take up health care bill

  25-07-2017 21:16
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Arizona Sen. John McCain's return to Congress for the first time since being diagnosed with brain cancer (all times local):
  
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• By a hair, Senate votes to debate GOP health care bill

  25-07-2017 21:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie, the Senate voted by a hair Tuesday to start debating Republican legislation to tear down much of the Obama health care law. The vote gives President Donald Trump…
  
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• Diver pulled from site of Andrea Doria wreck has died

  25-07-2017 21:12
  BOSTON (AP) — The Coast Guard says an unresponsive diver pulled from the water near the wreck of the Andrea Doria off Massachusetts has died.
  
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• Appeals court blocks strict DC concealed carry permit law

  25-07-2017 21:11
  
  A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a District of Columbia law that makes it difficult for gun owners to get concealed carry permits by requiring them to show that they have a good reason to carry a weapon.
  
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• The Latest: California governor signs climate change bill

  25-07-2017 21:05
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on Gov. Jerry Brown signing legislation to extend California's cap and trade climate program (all times local):
  
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• Top GOP lawmaker calls for faster action to counter NKorea

  25-07-2017 21:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior House Republican is calling North Korea's first test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile an "alarming development."
  
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• Prosecutor: Chinese billionaire used bribes to build legacy

  25-07-2017 21:04
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says a Chinese billionaire bribed two United Nations ambassadors so he could make a U.N. conference center in China the "Geneva of Asia."
  
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• Thousands join Muslim prayer protests over Jerusalem shrine

  25-07-2017 21:00
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed in the streets near Jerusalem's most contested holy site Tuesday, heeding a call by clergy to not enter the shrine despite Israel's seeming capitulation when it removed metal detectors it installed there…
  
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• Mic captures GOP senator ripping Trump, mocking lawmaker

  25-07-2017 20:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Oh, that dreaded open microphone!
  
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• The Latest: Chainsaw attack suspect arrested in Switzerland

  25-07-2017 20:56
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the search for the suspect in the chainsaw attack that started in Swiss insurance office (all times local):
  
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