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• No cars allowed: Georgia considers highway just for trucks

  10-02-2018 23:50
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia transportation officials are exploring the idea of a separate highway for trucks only.
  
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• OxyContin maker will stop promoting opioids to doctors

  10-02-2018 23:37
  
  The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, bowing to a key demand of lawsuits that blame the company for helping trigger the current drug abuse epidemic.
  
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• 330 dogs leap, zip and whirl in Westminster agility contest

  10-02-2018 23:22
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Leslie Holm has no trouble pulling together a big-time performance. She spent 19 years as a lighting technician and electrician on tours by acts ranging from Beyonce to Bon Jovi.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Shutdown produces lots of overblown rhetoric

  10-02-2018 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The weeklong drama over the hourslong government shutdown set loose overblown rhetoric from both parties while President Donald Trump wrestled inartfully with turmoil in the stock market, one of his favorite bragging points until it tanked.
  
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• Hundreds rally in NYC against deportation of activist

  10-02-2018 23:18
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of people rallied on Saturday in support of an immigration activist from Trinidad and Tobago who's fighting deportation, accusing authorities of targeting him for speaking out.
  
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• California science fair project tying race, IQ sparks outcry

  10-02-2018 23:13
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California school district is investigating how a science project correlating low intelligence with racial groups was on full display at a science fair, where it drew outrage from some students, parents and staff.
  
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• Booga is back: Turtle released off Florida Keys after rehab

  10-02-2018 23:09
  
  MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A young loggerhead sea turtle rescued from a fishing trap line has been returned to her ocean home off the Florida Keys.
  
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• Iowa State Upsets No. 17 Oklahoma 88-80

  10-02-2018 23:08
  
  The Sooners are going to have a tough time convincing the NCAA Tournament committee that they deserve a high seed unless they can start winning some games away from Norman. This one was there for them late, but Trae Young couldn't find the magic he has so often shown this season.
  
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• Oklahoma State Tops Struggling No. 19 West Virginia 88-85

  10-02-2018 23:02
  
  Kendall Smith and Cameron McGriff each scored 20 points and Oklahoma State beat another ranked team on the road, topping No. 19 West Virginia 88-85 Saturday.
  
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• Long Island man arrested on cockfighting charges

  10-02-2018 22:24
  
  ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Police searching for drugs at a home in New York discovered more than 60 caged roosters, a mistreated pit bull, a pheasant and equipment used to stage illegal cockfighting matches.
  
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• Cherokee County Fire Claims Mobile Home

  10-02-2018 22:23
  
  Two mobile homes and a two-story shop are a total loss after a Cherokee County fire.  
  
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• Boko Haram releases 13 hostages after talks with Nigeria

  10-02-2018 21:51
  YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram extremists have freed three university lecturers and 10 women who it had kidnapped in separate raids last year, Nigeria's government said Saturday.
  
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• Phoenix police ID firefighter arrested in station thefts

  10-02-2018 21:48
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have identified a 36-year-old city firefighter who is accused of entering fire stations and stealing from fellow firefighters, sometimes after setting trash fires to keep crews away.
  
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• UK defense chief: Don't let 2 British IS suspects return

  10-02-2018 21:43
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's defense secretary says two captured Islamic State group extremists who grew up in England should never be allowed to return.
  
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• Ohio police: 2 officers killed responding to 911 call; suspect held

  10-02-2018 21:42
  
  WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say two officers have been fatally shot at a home in a Columbus suburb, and a suspect is in custody.
  
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• President Trump accuses Democrats of playing politics with memo

  10-02-2018 21:20
  
  White House counsel Don McGahn said in a letter to the House Intelligence Committee that Trump was still "inclined" to release the memo in the interest of transparency if revisions are made.
  
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• Police: Two officers have been fatally shot at a home in the Columbus suburb of Westerville. A suspect is in custody.

  10-02-2018 21:11
  WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Police: Two officers have been fatally shot at a home in the Columbus suburb of Westerville. A suspect is in custody.
  
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• Mayor defends fire company's choice of sex offender as chief

  10-02-2018 21:03
  SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The mayor of a tiny northwestern Pennsylvania town is standing by its volunteer fire company's election of a registered sex offender as its fire chief.
  
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• Turkish warships stop Italy's ENI rig in waters off Cyprus

  10-02-2018 21:00
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkish warships on manoeuvers in the Mediterranean Sea have blocked a rig belonging to the Italian energy firm ENI from reaching an area off Cyprus to start searching for gas, officials said Saturday.
  
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• Judge awards father custody of abused daughter's body

  10-02-2018 20:52
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has awarded a Texas man exclusive custody of his abused daughter's body, which has languished in the Milwaukee County morgue for two months amid a dispute with the girl's mother, who is implicated in her…
  
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• Reg E Cathey, Known For ‘House of Cards,’ Dead At 59

  10-02-2018 20:35
  
  Emmy-winning actor Reg E. Cathey, best known for “House of Cards” and “The Wire,” has died. Cathey died at age 59, according to a statement from Netflix published in numerous reports.
  
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• Police: Washington man raped dying woman, texted photos

  10-02-2018 19:38
  EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A 19-year-old Washington state man, who police say raped a high school student as she died from a drug overdose and texted semi-nude photos of her, has been charged with manslaughter.
  
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• Marchers protest racism in Italy after Africans are shot

  10-02-2018 19:37
  
  ROME (AP) — Marchers protested racism Saturday in several Italian cities and warned against a revival of neo-fascist sentiment amid the campaign for Italy's March 4 national election.
  
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• Winter weather advisory in effect until 6 a.m. Sunday

  10-02-2018 19:27
  
  A winter weather advisory is in effect until 6 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Ex-Texas death row inmate now questions prosecutors

  10-02-2018 19:15
  DALLAS (AP) — A man who was exonerated after spending 12 years on Texas' death row is getting the chance to question lawyers who are running to become Dallas' top prosecutor.
  
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• Turnstile justice? Manhattan eases up on fare jumpers

  10-02-2018 19:12
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police and transit officials say a new policy not to prosecute subway fare jumpers could embolden criminals and cause chaos.
  
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• Mary Lou McDonald takes over as Sinn Fein party leader

  10-02-2018 18:58
  
  LONDON (AP) — Mary Lou McDonald took over as leader of the Sinn Fein party Saturday, ending Gerry Adams' three decades at the helm with a sweeping speech that touched on everything from abortion to Brexit and promised a united…
  
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• No Injuries In Tulsa Apartment Fire

  10-02-2018 18:38
  
  Crews are on the scene of an apartment fire at Mowhawk Manor. 
  
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• Court sets hearing on Newtown shooter's belongings

  10-02-2018 18:25
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has scheduled arguments on whether state police have to publicly release some of the Newtown school killer's belongings, including a spreadsheet ranking mass murders and a violent story he wrote as a…
  
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• Officials: Guard shoots just-released inmate after attack

  10-02-2018 18:20
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a prison guard leaving work for the day has shot and critically injured a just-released inmate who attacked the officer in a parking lot near the prison.
  
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• Ohio man kicked by police arrested for spitting on officer

  10-02-2018 17:32
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man seen in a viral cellphone video being kicked by an officer who was later fired has been arrested and charged with spitting on police in Ohio.
  
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• Farthest Photos Ever Taken, From Nearly 4 Billion Miles Away

  10-02-2018 17:31
  
  The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a record for the farthest photos ever taken. 
  
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• Trump Tweets About Not Declassifying ‘Very Political’ Democratic Memo

  10-02-2018 17:30
  
  President Trump took to Twitter Saturday morning to defend his decision not to declassify a memo written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee in response to a GOP memo the president declassified for release last week.
  
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• Today in History for Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018

  10-02-2018 17:27
  
  There are 324 days left in the year.
  
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• American Revolution battlefield expands in 'Hornet's Nest'

  10-02-2018 17:13
  ATLANTA (AP) — A battlefield in the woods of northeast Georgia is being reclaimed so visitors can see the shallow graves of fallen soldiers and learn how the South played a key role in defeating the British and helping to…
  
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• 3rd man pleads guilty in Florida terror sting case

  10-02-2018 16:52
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A third Florida man has pleaded guilty in an FBI terrorism sting involving a plot to travel to Syria and fight with the Islamic State extremist group.
  
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• Oklahoma pulling up red carpet offered to wind industry

  10-02-2018 16:48
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As Oklahoma sought to diversify its oil-and-gas powered economy in the early 2000s, policymakers rolled out the red carpet for the burgeoning wind industry, offering generous state tax incentives and access to windy, inexpensive tracts of…
  
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• Notice to builders outlines US plans for part of border wall

  10-02-2018 16:30
  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal authorities have posted a notice to contractors that they intend to award a contract in May for 3 miles of a segment of border wall in Texas' Rio Grande Valley.
  
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• Pair Uninjured In Rollover Crash Near Keetonville Hill

  10-02-2018 16:25
  
  Two people are ok after a single-car rollover crash near Keetonville Hill just west of Claremore, officials say. 
  
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• Bones found in Montana not those of missing Michigan boys

  10-02-2018 16:13
  MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Officials say the remains of three children found in Montana last year are not those of three Michigan brothers who went missing in 2010.
  
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• UK reviews Oxfam ties after sex abuse scandal in Haiti

  10-02-2018 16:04
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British government is reviewing its relationship with Oxfam amid a deepening sexual misconduct scandal involving some of the charity's employees working in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake.
  
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• Russian nuke researchers arrested for illicit crypto-mining

  10-02-2018 15:59
  MOSCOW (AP) — Two employees of Russia's top nuclear research institute have been arrested for using the facility's supercomputer for crypto-currency mining.
  
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• Cars Spin On Slick Oklahoma Road

  10-02-2018 15:52
  
  A slick road caused two cars to spin near 91st and Highway 169.
  
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• Couple sells all for sailboat venture, it sinks on day 2

  10-02-2018 15:45
  MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A couple who abandoned their workaday lives to buy a sailboat for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure instead lost almost everything when it sank on day two of their journey off Florida.
  
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• 'Teen' Panhandler Conning Generous Tulsans, Police Warn

  10-02-2018 15:28
  Tulsans are giving Blaine Eberlin money and their compassion because he claims he is 17, his father died, and his mother kicked him out of the house. "Obviously it makes TPD mad to see a 17-year-old treated that way so we started investigating to do something about it," said Officer Jeanne Mackenzie.
  
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• UK reviewing Oxfam ties after sex abuse scandal in Haiti

  10-02-2018 15:17
  
  LONDON (AP) — The British government is reviewing its relationship with the anti-poverty charity Oxfam after a newspaper reported that some members of its staff used prostitutes while working in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that devastated the country.
  
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• Frigid, Windy Saturday

  10-02-2018 14:47
  
  Off-and-on freezing drizzle could lead to some slick spots across Green Country on this frigid and windy Saturday. 
  
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• Down the chute: 'Fun and frivolity' at toboggan competition

  10-02-2018 14:46
  CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — The Winter Olympics are underway with world-class athletes vying for medals in South Korea.
  
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• False alarms highlight weaknesses in national alert system

  10-02-2018 14:41
  
  Weather junkie John Grosso knew it was highly unlikely a monster wave was barreling toward the Connecticut coast. Still, when a tsunami warning appeared out of the blue on his phone Tuesday, he felt a twinge of fear. His co-workers,…
  
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• This week in odd news: Lettuce lizard; Dog and pony show

  10-02-2018 14:27
  
  ROMANIAN STUDY: HALF-DAY OLD SNOW IS SAFE TO EAT
  
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