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• Tulsa County Sheriff Faces Lawsuit For Mentally Ill Man's Death

  24-08-2017 23:54
  
  The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office faces a civil lawsuit over the shooting death of a mentally ill man.
  
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• Muskogee woman arrested, charged with permitting abuse of 1-month-old son

  24-08-2017 23:48
  
  A Muskogee woman was arrested after being charged with allowing the father of her 1-month-old son to abuse the boy to the point where he was hospitalized in critical condition.
  
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• Hostage situation ends in Charleston after gunman shot

  24-08-2017 23:26
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A fired dishwasher shot and killed a chef and held a person hostage for about three hours before he was shot by police at a crowded restaurant in a tourist-heavy area of downtown Charleston on Thursday,…
  
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• The Latest: New England groups want fishing rights back

  24-08-2017 23:20
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on a review of possible changes for U.S. national monuments protecting wilderness and ocean (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Texas counties order evacuations for hurricane

  24-08-2017 23:11
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Harvey (all times local):
  
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• Teen tells judge he bought tiger cub on streets of Mexico

  24-08-2017 23:11
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California teenager charged with smuggling a Bengal tiger into the United States told a judge Thursday that he bought the animal on the streets of Tijuana, Mexico, where several of the endangered animals have been…
  
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• The Latest: Dutch police free driver in Allah-Las concert

  24-08-2017 22:59
  
  ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into the threat in the Dutch city Rotterdam (all times local):
  
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• Latest: Governor sets up commission to study racism

  24-08-2017 22:58
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of deadly violence at a Virginia rally by white nationalists (all times local):
  
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• US: At least 16 Americans affected by health attacks in Cuba

  24-08-2017 22:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 Americans associated with the U.S. Embassy in Havana suffered symptoms from attacks on their health in Cuba that have still not been explained, the United States said Thursday.
  
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• NATO chief says 2 experts to attend Russia-Belarus war games

  24-08-2017 22:54
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO's chief says the military alliance will send two experts to attend Russia's war games with Belarus, after Minsk invited them to take part.
  
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• Trump, former top spy trade verbal barbs

  24-08-2017 22:49
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump traded verbal barbs Thursday with James Clapper, the former national intelligence chief, who has questioned Trump's fitness to be in the Oval Office.
  
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• Bay area leaders strive to protect speech, prevent violence

  24-08-2017 22:45
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police and civic leaders in the cradle of America's free speech movement will struggle to balance liberty of expression with safeguards against violence as demonstrators with varying political viewpoints travel to the San Francisco Bay Area…
  
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• Coroner: Baby's death in car appears to be heat-related

  24-08-2017 22:41
  MASON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio coroner says preliminary findings indicate the death of a 15-month-old girl who was left inside a car by her mother as the woman worked in a nearby office building was heat-related.
  
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• EMSA Approves $400 Rate Increase For Emergency Transport

  24-08-2017 22:38
  
  EMSA is approving an emergency transport rate increase of $400 for the Tulsa area.
  
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• Collapse at salmon farm renews debate about fish farming

  24-08-2017 22:36
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A marine net pen holding 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed recently, releasing thousands of fish into Puget Sound and renewing concerns that a new proposed salmon farm could harm wild salmon stock and cause other environmental damage.
  
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• Caricature artist guilty of stabbing co-worker at theme park

  24-08-2017 22:34
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A caricature artist has been convicted of stabbing a former co-worker at Florida's Universal Orlando Resort.
  
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• Supreme Court won't halt Florida man's execution

  24-08-2017 22:27
  
  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block the state's first execution in 18 months, one that also will mark the first use of the drug etomidate in a U.S. lethal injection.
  
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• Tulsa man allegedly holds knife to girlfriend's neck, throws dog at police

  24-08-2017 22:22
  
  The man also allegedly tried to stab the dog with a key and slammed it on the roadway twice.
  
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• Detectives Hoping To Identify Person Of Interest In Tulsa Burglary

  24-08-2017 22:22
  
  Tulsa Police hope the public can help them locate a man they want to talk to about a June burglary.
  
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• The Latest: Lucky lottery ticket was 1 of 5 bought by winner

  24-08-2017 22:20
  
  BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on the lone winning ticket for the $758.7 million Powerball drawing that was sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts (all times local):
  
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• Ex-mayor acquitted of race riot murder in 1969 has died

  24-08-2017 22:20
  
  A former Pennsylvania mayor acquitted of murder in the killing of a black woman during racial unrest in 1969 has died.
  
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• Corker's careful balancing act on Trump knocked off kilter

  24-08-2017 22:15
  
  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sen. Bob Corker refuses to say whether he'll seek a third term, but he has carefully said and done all the right things to avoid provoking a spirited primary challenge next year.
  
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• Amazon to cut prices on Whole Foods staples like eggs, beef

  24-08-2017 22:15
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is moving swiftly to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it plans to cut prices on bananas, eggs, salmon, beef and more as soon as it completes its $13.7 billion takeover next week.
  
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• Kushner's Mideast peace push met with Palestinian skepticism

  24-08-2017 22:09
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Presidential adviser Jared Kushner met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday to try to jumpstart moribund peace talks, but after months without progress the Mideast envoy faces growing skepticism on the Palestinian side.
  
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• Insurer fills last hole in health law marketplaces for 2018

  24-08-2017 22:08
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The lone U.S. county still at risk of leaving shoppers with no choices next year on the federal health law's insurance marketplace has landed an insurer.
  
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• South Carolina Hostage Situation Over; Gunman Wounded

  24-08-2017 21:49
  
  The mayor says a hostage situation in a Charleston, South Carolina, restaurant has ended with the gunman being shot by police.
  
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• Massachusetts Powerball winner: Mavis L. Wanczyk claims $758M jackpot

  24-08-2017 21:31
  
  The woman who purchased the sole winning Powerball ticket has been identified as 53-year-old Mavis L. Wanczyk from Chicopee, Massachusetts, who came forward Thursday to claim her winnings. Wanczyk purchased the winning Powerball ticket at the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, Massachusetts. She becomes the winner of the largest single-ticket Powerball jackpot in history. Wanczyk, a mother of a daughter and son, says she chose the winning numbers based on her family's birthdays....
  
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• Hurricane Harvey Causes Mandatory Evacuations In Texas

  24-08-2017 21:22
  
  The National Hurricane Center says Harvey is now a hurricane. The storm gained power Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico and is moving toward the Texas coast. 
  
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• The Latest: Navajo leader relieved no monuments eliminated

  24-08-2017 21:13
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on a review of possible changes for U.S. national monuments protecting wilderness and ocean (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Official counsels lottery winner to get advisers

  24-08-2017 21:12
  
  BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on the lone winning ticket for the $758.7 million Powerball drawing that was sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Escaped inmates seen in northeastern Oklahoma

  24-08-2017 21:09
  The search for two inmates who escaped after overpowering prison transport officers in northwest Oklahoma moved to northeast Oklahoma after they were spotted at a convenience store in the Tulsa suburb of Sapulpa. Major County Sheriff's Deputy Gary Swymeler said Thursday that 32-year-old Andrew Foy and 37-year-old Darren Walp were seen on surveillance video Wednesday at a Quik Trip along Interstate 44, more than 130 miles from where the escaped.
  
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• 13 things we learned from going to the movies this summer

  24-08-2017 21:09
  How powerful is Gal Gadot's "Wonder Woman" you ask? Studios are making women directors more of a priority, and the character's role is being beefed up for November's "Justice League" movie. COURTESY/Warner Bros.
  
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• Massachusetts hospital worker claims record lottery jackpot

  24-08-2017 21:02
  
  BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — A 53-year-old Massachusetts hospital worker stepped forward Thursday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history — a $758.7 million Powerball prize — after breaking the news to her employer the way the rest…
  
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• Bengal tiger cub confiscated from car at border crossing

  24-08-2017 20:59
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. border officials confiscated a Bengal tiger cub after inspecting a car heading from Mexico to California, federal authorities said Friday.
  
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• Family of knife-wielding, mentally ill man to sue Tulsa County over law enforcement shooting death

  24-08-2017 20:45
  
  The DA announced his office found no criminal wrongdoing by Deputy William Ramsey, Deputy Brandon Walker or Officer Donnie Johnson in Joshua Barre's death.
  
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• California Supreme Court upholds measure to speed executions

  24-08-2017 20:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a ballot measure narrowly approved by voters to change the state's dysfunctional death penalty system and speed up executions.
  
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• Harvey intensifies to hurricane, likely a major Texas storm

  24-08-2017 20:42
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Tropical Storm Harvey intensified Thursday into a hurricane that forecasters said would be the first major hurricane to hit the middle Texas coastline in nearly 15 years.
  
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• Repairs on schedule, Amtrak to resume normal service Sept. 5

  24-08-2017 20:41
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak says it will resume regular train service at New York's Penn Station on Sept. 5 after eight weeks of major repairs required service cutbacks.
  
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• Police: Nothing questionable about body camera video

  24-08-2017 20:37
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's police commissioner says there is nothing questionable about an officer recorded on a body camera apparently recovering evidence, then placing it back where he'd found it before turning on his body-worn camera.
  
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• 68 cats rescued from condemned trailer in Mississippi

  24-08-2017 20:34
  PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say dozens of cats have been rescued from a condemned trailer in Mississippi.
  
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• Latest: Court hearing for Charlottesville suspect waived

  24-08-2017 20:32
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of deadly violence at a Virginia rally by white nationalists (all times local):
  
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• Charlottesville mayor says he was shut out of security talks

  24-08-2017 20:31
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville officials met privately Thursday to discuss "personnel matters" in the wake of a deadly white nationalist rally, the city's mayor said in a statement in which he also asserted he'd been largely shut out of…
  
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• Mayor: Angry worker shoots 1, holds hostages in restaurant

  24-08-2017 20:29
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — An angry employee shot one person Thursday and was holding "a couple" of others hostage at a crowded restaurant during lunchtime in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, authorities said.
  
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• Wells Fargo wants lawsuits tossed in favor of arbitration

  24-08-2017 20:26
  ATLANTA (AP) — A group of Wells Fargo customers who say they were victims of unfair overdraft practices want their claims heard in court, but the bank wants the disputes handled through arbitration.
  
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• Philadelphia wants public's opinion on fate of Rizzo statue

  24-08-2017 20:26
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is asking for the public's help in deciding the fate of a statue of former mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo.
  
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• Hospital cited in death of boy placed under heating blanket

  24-08-2017 20:26
  HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — The Health Department has cited a Pennsylvania hospital in the death of a 6-year-old boy whose temperature topped 107 degrees (41.7 Celsius) while he was under a special heating blanket.
  
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• Amazon to cut prices at Whole Foods on Monday as it closes $13.7 billion buyout

  24-08-2017 20:24
  
  Starting Monday, Whole Foods will offer lower prices on staples including bananas, eggs, salmon, beef, and other products. Looking ahead, the Seattle company hopes to give Amazon Prime members special savings and other in-store benefits.
  
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• The Latest: Both sides in death penalty measure claim win

  24-08-2017 20:20
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a ruling by the California Supreme Court on a voter-approved measure to speed up the state's death penalty process (all times local):
  
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• California baseball fans, players have common enemy: gulls

  24-08-2017 20:19
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Like any player, San Francisco Giants outfielder Denard Span worries about hitting nasty curveballs and losing fly balls in the sun. But he's got another concern when he's playing at his home stadium: birds pooping on…
  
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