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• Workers comb snowy field for clues to Russian plane crash

  12-02-2018 23:59
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Wading through knee-deep snow, hundreds of emergency workers searched a vast field near Moscow on Monday for remains of the 71 victims from the crash of a Russian airliner, and aviation experts began deciphering the jet's two…
  
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• North Korea: US criticism of its rights shows fear of nukes

  12-02-2018 23:56
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea on Monday sharply criticized President Donald Trump for inviting a defector to attend the State of the Union address and Vice President Mike Pence for taking the father of Otto Warmbier to the Olympics,…
  
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• Judge schedules 6-day hearing in Penn State frat death case

  12-02-2018 23:56
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State fraternity brothers facing refiled charges in a pledge's hazing death are scheduled for a second hearing on whether prosecutors have enough evidence to send the most serious allegations against them to trial.
  
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• Trump announces Pittsburgh-area campaign rally on Feb. 21

  12-02-2018 23:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign says he'll hold a rally in the Pittsburgh area next week.
  
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• Farmers trained on using herbicide blamed for crop damage

  12-02-2018 23:52
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of soybean and cotton farmers across the country are taking free but mandatory training in how to properly use a weed killer blamed for drifting and damaging crops in neighboring fields.
  
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• Chicago delays disputed school closures plan after uproar

  12-02-2018 23:49
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials will postpone the closure of several high schools in one of the city's highest-crime and most impoverished neighborhoods in response to a contentious community response, the nation's third-largest public school district announced Monday.
  
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• Jury finds 2 Baltimore police detectives guilty of racketeering and robbery

  12-02-2018 23:46
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Jury finds 2 Baltimore police detectives guilty of racketeering and robbery.
  
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• Key piece of Step Up Oklahoma plan stalled on House floor

  12-02-2018 23:45
  
  House Bill 1033xx includes all the proposals requiring 75 percent majorities — a $1.50-per-pack increase in the cigarette tax, higher taxes on other tobacco products, a 2 percentage point increase in the gross production tax on most new oil and…
  
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• Police seek clues in Kentucky shootings that left 5 dead

  12-02-2018 23:40
  PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Detectives are trying to piece together why a Kentucky man fatally shot his parents and two other people before taking his own life last weekend.
  
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• Former pharma exec, Christie backer seeks to oust Menendez

  12-02-2018 23:36
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former pharmaceutical company executive who backed Chris Christie's failed presidential run said Monday he's entering New Jersey's Senate race in an attempt to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez.
  
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• Flea market buy reunites family with relative's burial flag

  12-02-2018 23:35
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A chance outing at a Florida flea market led to the reunion of the family of a Korean War veteran from Pennsylvania and his burial flag.
  
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• Seattle eyes taller, denser in affordable housing proposal

  12-02-2018 23:32
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's booming tech industry has brought a massive influx of new residents with big wallets to the city. But an ensuing housing crunch has led to skyrocketing rents and home prices that have strained middle- and working-class…
  
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• Interior to replace Obama-era rule on methane emissions

  12-02-2018 23:29
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department says it is replacing an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands.
  
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• Etsy.com lifts ban on Alaska Native's otter fur handicrafts

  12-02-2018 23:29
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Native says his otter fur handicrafts are for sale again on Etsy.com after the website briefly took them down to align with a new policy targeting the illegal trade of ivory and items made…
  
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• The Latest: Tape of confession heard at hearing for teen

  12-02-2018 23:27
  
  ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on a hearing whether a teenager is to be tried as an adult in a South Carolina school shooting (all times local):
  
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• Appeals Court: Arctic ringed seals are threatened species

  12-02-2018 23:26
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An ice seal that's the main prey of Alaska's polar bears will receive threatened species protection.
  
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• California lawmakers increase dam safeguards after dam scare

  12-02-2018 23:22
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would beef up dam inspections under legislation sent to Gov. Jerry Brown Monday, a year after a near disaster prompted the evacuation of nearly 200,000 residents.
  
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• Former Pennsylvania Congressman Jon Fox dies at 70

  12-02-2018 23:20
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former two-term Pennsylvania congressman who also served in local and state offices for more than two decades has died. Jon Fox was 70.
  
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• Tulsa Police Investigating Suspected Gun Battle

  12-02-2018 23:10
  
  Police said just after 2:00 p.m. Monday, February 12, 2018, they received multiple calls of shots fired in the 2100 block of South 99th East Avenue.
  
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• Two Chicks Hatch On Bald Eagle Cam Near Vian

  12-02-2018 22:25
  
  The first chick has hatched in the bald eagle nest at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. The parents are busily feeding the hungry chick, as captured by a live eagle nest cam.  
  
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• NKorea still holds the key after US shifts policy on talks

  12-02-2018 22:14
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has declared the U.S. is open for talks without preconditions with nuclear North Korea.
  
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• Oklahoma City woman sentenced in daughter's fatal 'exorcism' beating

  12-02-2018 22:13
  
  Gomez appeared in court shackled and dressed in an orange jail uniform. Speaking softly, she answered the judge's questions but declined to make any statements regarding the case. She plans to appeal.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks surge; Dow industrials gain 400

  12-02-2018 22:09
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• OU Holds Strong As Nation's No. 1 Team

  12-02-2018 22:08
  
  After posting a 198.150 to tie the highest score in the nation this season, the Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team remained the No. 1 team in the nation.
  
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• Gloria Steinem weighs in to save hometown abortion provider

  12-02-2018 22:08
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gloria Steinem weighed in Monday to try to save the last abortion clinic in her Ohio hometown.
  
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• Boy in critical condition after ambulance hit by car

  12-02-2018 22:08
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The family of a toddler badly hurt after an ambulance crash said Monday that the experience has been "devastating."
  
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• Woman sentenced to life in daughter's crucifix death

  12-02-2018 22:07
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing her adult daughter by forcing a crucifix and medallion down her throat because she believed the woman was possessed by the devil.
  
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• Milwaukee prosecutors charge jail staff in inmate's death

  12-02-2018 22:04
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three Milwaukee County jail staffers are facing criminal charges for their role in the dehydration death of a mentally ill inmate who spent a week without water, prosecutors said Monday.
  
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• Trump plan would study sale of federal utility's assets

  12-02-2018 22:02
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The infrastructure plan outlined by President Donald Trump on Monday suggests studying whether the nation's largest public utility should sell its transmission assets, which Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander called "a looney idea" with "zero chance…
  
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• Minnesota woman ordered detained on terror, arson charges

  12-02-2018 22:02
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman who is accused of trying to travel to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida was "self-radicalized" and intended to kill people when she set several fires on a college campus last month, a federal…
  
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• Bosnian Serb leader honors late Russian who gave key UN veto

  12-02-2018 22:00
  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik paid tribute Monday to a late Russian ambassador who vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have condemned as genocide a massacre committed in the town of Srebrenica in the…
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to fraud scheme involving faked death

  12-02-2018 21:59
  NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia woman who faked her own death in connection with an elaborate fraud scheme has been sentenced to four years in prison.
  
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• Trump says 'up to' Congress to act on plan to rebuild roads

  12-02-2018 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sent Congress a sweeping plan Monday to rebuild the nation's depleted roads and bridges — then immediately raised doubts about how committed he was to delivering on that campaign promise.
  
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• Satellites show warming is accelerating sea level rise

  12-02-2018 21:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New satellite research shows melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up already rising seas.
  
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• Agency-by-agency highlights of Trump's 2019 budget

  12-02-2018 21:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Highlights from President Donald Trump's budget for fiscal year 2019.
  
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• Ex-All Star pitcher Esteban Loaiza arrested on drug charges

  12-02-2018 21:54
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former All-Star pitcher Esteban Loaiza has been arrested on suspicion of trafficking drugs after packages containing a white powder believed to be cocaine were found at a home he rented in Southern California, officials said Monday.
  
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• Armed person shot to death at southern Oklahoma travel plaza

  12-02-2018 21:54
  GRANT, Okla. (AP) — Security officers at a southern Oklahoma travel plaza have shot and killed a person who they say was brandishing a weapon.
  
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• Northeast Corridor tunnel backers feel shorted by Trump plan

  12-02-2018 21:52
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Proponents of a $13 billion project to build a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey seen as critical for the future of the nation's busiest rail corridor are panning President Donald Trump's infrastructure…
  
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• Cyprus says Turkish warships continue to block drilling rig

  12-02-2018 21:41
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey faced criticism Monday after its warships continued to impede a rig from reaching a location off Cyprus where Italian energy company Eni is scheduled to drill for gas.
  
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• Bethany Man Found Guilty In Toddler's Death

  12-02-2018 21:36
  
  A jury has found a Bethany man guilty for the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son. 
  
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• Principal offers year-end cash to students for not fighting

  12-02-2018 21:35
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The principal at a Philadelphia elementary school in a violent corner of the city is paying eighth-graders to not fight.
  
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• Court declines to tear up NJ's $225M settlement with Exxon

  12-02-2018 21:34
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey appeals court on Monday turned down a request from environmental groups and a former state senator to undo a $225 million pollution settlement between the state and Exxon Mobil.
  
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• Police Release Photos Of Suspect In Latest Tulsa Homicide

  12-02-2018 21:30
  
  A family of four who lives across the street from a deadly Tulsa shooting early Monday says a bullet almost hit them while they were asleep.
  
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• Venerable B-52 may outlive snazzier, younger bombers

  12-02-2018 21:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says the venerable B-52 bomber, which gained lasting fame in Vietnam as an aerial terror, is now likely to outlive its younger, far snazzier brother bombers, the swept-wing B-1 and the stealthy B-2.
  
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• The Latest: Police identify gunman in Detroit standoff

  12-02-2018 21:15
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on a Detroit shooting and standoff that left three women dead, three officers wounded and the gunman dead (all times local):
  
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• Trump wants NASA out of space station by 2025, businesses in

  12-02-2018 21:13
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead.
  
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