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• Tulsa City Councilor Aims To Change Street Performer Ordinance

  25-10-2017 23:39
  
  This might be news to many, but street performances in Tulsa are illegal. Now, one city councilor wants to change that and he is starting with downtown. 
  
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• Left Lane Law In Effect Nov. 1

  25-10-2017 23:22
  
  A heads up to all the drivers out there, starting next week, stay out of the left lane. 
  
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• Fisher-Price Recalls Infant Motion Seat Due To Fire Hazard

  25-10-2017 22:42
  
  Fisher-Price has recalled its 'Soothing Motion Seats' after receiving more than 30 reports of the product overheating, including one report of a fire contained in the seat's motor housing, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said. 
  
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• Terry Hood Sits Down With CBS Sunday Morning Host Jane Pauley

  25-10-2017 22:36
  
  Jane Pauley burst onto the national scene when she was just 25 years old; 40 years later, she turned the page on a whole new career as host of the CBS Sunday Morning show.
  
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• Judge: Trump doesn't have to resume health care subsidies

  25-10-2017 22:26
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request by 18 states to force the federal government to immediately resume paying health care subsidies that President Donald Trump cut off.
  
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• The Latest: Wikileaks confirms approach from Trump campaign

  25-10-2017 22:24
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on investigations into possible contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia (all times local):
  
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• Troops describe hardships, wounds during Bergdahl searches

  25-10-2017 22:20
  
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Several soldiers and a Navy SEAL testified Wednesday about the risky, all-out efforts to find Bowe Bergdahl after the soldier's 2009 disappearance in Afghanistan. Troops and commanders went without sleep. Shirts and socks disintegrated on…
  
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• APNewsBreak: Trump opposes massive California water project

  25-10-2017 22:20
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A massive California water project has drawn opposition from the Trump administration, the government said Wednesday, the latest and one of the most serious blows to Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to re-engineer the state's water system…
  
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• Weinstein Co. targeted in new claims of sexual misconduct

  25-10-2017 22:18
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An aspiring actress sued Harvey Weinstein's former company to allege it was aware of the disgraced film mogul's sexual misconduct dating back to the 1990s.
  
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• The Latest: Ivanka Trump pitches child tax credits on Hill

  25-10-2017 22:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Republican plans to overhaul the tax code (all times local):
  
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• Study: ACA silver plan premiums up average of 34 percent

  25-10-2017 22:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As online window shopping on HealthCare.gov went live Wednesday, an independent analysis found that premiums for the most popular health plans under the Affordable Care Act are rising by an average 34 percent next year.
  
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• On JFK documents, Trump squeezed over disclosure

  25-10-2017 22:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is caught in a push-pull on new details of John F. Kennedy's assassination, jammed between students of the killing who want every scrap of information and intelligence agencies that are said to be counseling…
  
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• Menendez staffer grilled over ethics forms at bribery trial

  25-10-2017 22:13
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — As the bribery and fraud trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez inched toward a conclusion Wednesday, jurors heard briefly about a since-discredited news report that prompted the investigation five years ago, and in greater detail about…
  
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• Fats Domino dies at 89; gave rock music a New Orleans flavor

  25-10-2017 22:11
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89.
  
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• Trump congratulates Chinese president on second term

  25-10-2017 22:07
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) on beginning a second, five-year term as leader.
  
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• Anne Frank's diary read out to combat soccer's anti-Semitism

  25-10-2017 22:06
  
  MILAN (AP) — A passage from Anne Frank's diary was read before Wednesday's Italian league matches as part of a number of initiatives to condemn the acts of anti-Semitism earlier this week by Lazio fans and to keep alive memories…
  
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• Reward offered for info on wolf-killing poacher in Oregon

  25-10-2017 22:05
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and five conservation groups have teamed up to offer $15,500 for information about the illegal poaching of a federally protected gray wolf that was shot dead in a national forest…
  
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• Orphanage owner says Texas girl had no eating issues

  25-10-2017 22:03
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The owner of a now-closed orphanage in India where a young girl was living before being adopted by a Texas couple says the child had no eating issues despite her adoptive father's account to police when reporting…
  
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• 2 boys shot mark 5 gun deaths in 24 hours in Philadelphia

  25-10-2017 22:01
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say five people were shot to death in 24 hours in Philadelphia, including two 16-year-old boys who were shot after an argument.
  
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• Texas House speaker who slowed conservative agenda retires

  25-10-2017 21:59
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' moderate Republican House speaker abruptly announced his retirement Wednesday, clearing the way for the ruling GOP in the nation's largest conservative state to lurch further to the right.
  
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• Prosecutor indicted in 2012 police brutality cover-up

  25-10-2017 21:59
  
  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A district attorney in eastern Long Island and a top aide were charged Wednesday with intimidating witnesses in a federal civil rights investigation into the beating of a handcuffed prisoner by a police chief.
  
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• Panel recommends new, better shingles shot over old version

  25-10-2017 21:58
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal panel recommended Wednesday that older people already vaccinated for shingles get a new, better shot.
  
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• GOP businessman announces campaign to oust US Sen. Warren

  25-10-2017 21:55
  BOSTON (AP) — Republican business executive John Kingston has formally announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
  
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• Tulsa Sound musician Chuck Blackwell dies at 77

  25-10-2017 21:45
  
  Blackwell was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
  
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• DHS Revised Budget Outlines $69 Million In Potential Cuts

  25-10-2017 21:42
  
  Following the loss of $69 million from the agency’s operating budget, Oklahoma DHS submitted a revised budget to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Wednesday.  
  
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• Officials project cost of response to Vegas shooting at $4M

  25-10-2017 21:35
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials are projecting the cost of emergency police, fire and other services involving the Las Vegas massacre at about $4 million.
  
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• Judge removes fatal shooting from ex-Tulsa officer's record

  25-10-2017 21:33
  In this May 9, 2017, file photo, Tulsa Police officer Betty Jo Shelby arrives at the Tulsa County Courthouse for her first-degree manslaughter trial in Tulsa, Okla. An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, expunged the record of Shelby who fatally shot Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in September 2016.
  
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• ACLU: Teen at center of immigration case has abortion

  25-10-2017 21:28
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An immigrant teen in federal custody who was seeking an abortion over the Trump administration's objections had the procedure Wednesday after a U.S. appeals court ruled in her favor, her lawyers said.
  
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• OK House Minority Leader Announces Resignation, Ends Gubernatorial Run

  25-10-2017 21:22
  
  Oklahoma House Minority Leader Scott Inman is resigning from the legislature and discontinuing his run for Governor. 
  
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• News On 6 To Host FAFSA Phone Bank

  25-10-2017 21:14
  
  News On 6 will be hosting a phone bank to help you and your family get financial aid for college. Students who complete the FAFSA form can access nearly $22 million in Pell grant funds.
  
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• GOP-Sponsored Budget Plan Fails In Okla. Legislature

  25-10-2017 21:01
  
  The GOP Budget bill is in limbo after failing to gain the required two-thirds majority to pass in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Wednesday.
  
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• Many Of Tulsa's Highway Lights Back On After Copper Theft

  25-10-2017 20:28
  
  Many of Tulsa's highway lights are back on as city crews continue replacing wiring in the street lights, the city wrote on its Facebook page.  
  
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• Driver Tased At End Of Tulsa To Broken Arrow Chase

  25-10-2017 20:10
  
  Tulsa County deputies used a tazer on a driver after a chase across Tulsa into Broken Arrow early Wednesday. 
  
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• Former Oklahoma Firefighter Charged With Arson

  25-10-2017 19:56
  
  A former Oklahoma volunteer firefighter is charged with arson. 
  
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• German president in Russia talks about Ukraine, other crises

  25-10-2017 19:37
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Germany and Russia need to overcome their mutual distrust, the German president said Wednesday on a visit to Russia.
  
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• Fatal shootings at Grambling State not random, sheriff says

  25-10-2017 19:32
  
  GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Authorities were searching Wednesday for a suspect in a shooting that killed a Grambling State University student and his friend after an altercation on the Louisiana college's campus.
  
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• GOP rallies behind tax cuts, despite attacks on Trump

  25-10-2017 19:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans showed scant signs Wednesday of turning on Donald Trump, rallying instead behind their party's tax-cutting plans a day after a pair of prominent GOP senators denounced the president in scathing terms.
  
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• Kenya opposition leader urges boycott on eve of rerun vote

  25-10-2017 19:29
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The leader of Kenya's main opposition party urged his supporters to boycott a rerun of the disputed presidential election scheduled for Thursday amid rising political tensions and fears of violence in the East African country.
  
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• Activists accused of aiding terror groups on trial in Turkey

  25-10-2017 19:29
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Eleven human rights activists, including two from Amnesty International, went on trial Wednesday in Turkey, where they are accused of belonging to and aiding terror groups. Their cases have heightened concerns of an authoritarian turn under Turkish…
  
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• Brazil leader hospitalized as he faces vote on suspension

  25-10-2017 19:28
  
  BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Michel Temer was hospitalized on Wednesday with a urinary obstruction, his office said, even as lawmakers debated in Congress whether to suspend him and put him on trial on corruption charges.
  
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• US appeals Hawaii judge's order blocking newest travel ban

  25-10-2017 19:26
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday appealed a Hawaii judge's order that blocks the newest version of the travel ban.
  
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• US ambassador to UN evacuated from volatile South Sudan camp

  25-10-2017 19:26
  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was evacuated from a U.N. camp for displaced people in South Sudan on Wednesday because of a volatile demonstration against President Salva Kiir, witnesses said.
  
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• 10 Commandments monument in New Mexico moving off city land

  25-10-2017 19:26
  
  BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) — A group that erected a monument honoring the Ten Commandments six years ago on city-owned property in a small New Mexico city will remove the monument and put it on private property within 30 days.
  
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• Facebook to build wind farm to help power Omaha data center

  25-10-2017 19:24
  WAKEFIELD, Neb. (AP) — Facebook is partnering with a developer to build a wind power farm in northeast Nebraska that will supply energy for the company's planned data center.
  
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• The Latest: Opposition supporters burn tires, protest polls

  25-10-2017 19:23
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on Kenya's election (all times local):
  
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• Sen. Flake's departure could unleash flood of GOP candidates

  25-10-2017 19:21
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake's decision to bow out of a re-election fight could spur a rush of other Republican candidates who hope to take on his only announced challenger in the Arizona primary next year.
  
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• Catalan VP says Spain 'gives us no option' but to secede

  25-10-2017 19:21
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish authorities are leaving separatists in Catalonia no option but to push ahead with declaring independence and proclaiming the region as a new republic, the region's vice president asserted Wednesday.
  
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• Trump OKs test program to expand domestic drone flights

  25-10-2017 19:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans could see a lot more drones flying around their communities as the result of a Trump administration test program to increase government and commercial use of the unmanned aircraft.
  
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• Filipino WWII veterans awarded Congressional Gold Medal

  25-10-2017 19:17
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Filipino veterans of World War II have been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, 75 years after they joined with the United States to defeat Japan.
  
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