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• Semi Hits Pedestrian In Fatal Kay County Wreck

  03-03-2018 23:31
  
  A man is dead after being hit by a semi-truck on a Kay County Highway, reports say. 
  
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• Red dirt musician and native Tulsan Brandon Jenkins dies

  03-03-2018 23:23
  "Immediately, you were taken by his big voice, and he just rifled through songs one after the other," said Ryan LaCroix, host of KOSU Radio's "The Oklahoma Rock Show," recalling the first time he heard Jenkins play in the early 2000s at Norman's now-closed Red Dirt Cafe. "He was a guy that always played by his own rules.
  
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• 9-Year-Old Hit By Car, Taken To Hospital, Police Say

  03-03-2018 22:33
  
  A 9-year-old cyclist was taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after being hit by a car, police say.   
  
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• Grand Lake Claims Boat On Welcome Back Weekend

  03-03-2018 22:13
  
  Welcome Back Weekend on Grand Lake was met with calamity for one boat owner Saturday. 
  
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• More flooding expected as deadly nor'easter moves out to sea

  03-03-2018 21:02
  
  BOSTON (AP) — People along the Northeast coast braced for more flooding during high tides Saturday even as the powerful storm that inundated roads, snapped trees and knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses moved hundreds…
  
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• Police: Gun in campus shooting belonged to suspect's dad

  03-03-2018 21:01
  
  A 19-year-old student suspected of fatally shooting his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory had been acting so strangely the day before the killings that campus police talked to his mother and then took him to a hospital for…
  
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• Vulnerable lawmakers answer a noisy gun debate with silence

  03-03-2018 20:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — They crowded around the White House conference table this past week, lawmakers from California, Connecticut, Texas and Florida, eager to share their state's painful experience with gun violence.
  
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• Friends defend California couple charged with child abuse

  03-03-2018 20:43
  
  JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California couple charged with child abuse was extremely poor and too proud to accept charity, but they were attentive parents whose children didn't appear to be neglected, according to friends of the pair.
  
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• This week in odd news: Expensive mistake and meatball theft

  03-03-2018 20:42
  
  FLORIDA PYTHON DEVOURS DEER THAT WEIGHS NEARLY 4 LBS. MORE
  
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• The Silicon Valley elite's latest status symbol: Chickens

  03-03-2018 20:41
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Johan Land has a life that stands out even among Silicon Valley’s tech elite: He’s the lead product manager at Waymo (formerly known as Google’s self-driving car project), a job that keeps him glued to computer screens…
  
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• June tornado caused $20M in damage to Nebraska air base

  03-03-2018 20:36
  OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Air Force says a tornado that tore through a Nebraska base last June caused nearly $20 million in damage.
  
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• Warrant: Wife of slain doctor claimed self-defense

  03-03-2018 20:32
  NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — A newly unsealed arrest warrant says a University of Connecticut scientist charged with killing her professor husband wrote in her journal that it was self-defense.
  
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• Authorities say man shoots himself to death near White House

  03-03-2018 20:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities said a man shot himself to death outside the White House on Saturday.
  
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• Victorian button-up meets raw punk at Paris Fashion Week

  03-03-2018 20:15
  
  PARIS (AP) — The buttoned-up styles of the Victorian era have met their nemesis in the unbridled sexuality of British punk in contrasting shows at Paris Fashion Week.
  
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• Trump's tariff talk provokes rarely seen urgency among GOP

  03-03-2018 19:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress have learned to ignore President Donald Trump's policy whims, knowing whatever he says one day on guns, immigration or other complicated issues could very well change by the next.
  
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• FBI director makes historic visit to Navajo Nation

  03-03-2018 19:43
  GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray has met with tribal officials of the largest Indian reservation in the U.S.
  
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• Ohio man convicted of indecent exposure for 6th time

  03-03-2018 19:41
  CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man has been convicted for at least the sixth time for publicly exposing himself.
  
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• Turkey tightens its grip on Syrian Kurdish enclave

  03-03-2018 19:40
  
  MARSAWA, SYRIA (AP) — Turkey's prime minister said Saturday that Turkish troops have captured a strategic village in the Kurdish-held enclave in northwestern Syria, tightening its grip on Kurdish militia in the sixth week of its offensive on the area.
  
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• Kansas voting rights trial has national implications

  03-03-2018 19:37
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A conservative Republican who has supported President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that millions of illegal votes cost Trump the popular vote in 2016 will have to prove Kansas has a problem with voter fraud if he's…
  
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• 2 Detroit police officers charged after fatal vehicle crash

  03-03-2018 19:35
  DETROIT (AP) — Two Detroit police officers have been charged in an October fatal crash.
  
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• Authorities Respond To Reports Of Shots Fired Near White House

  03-03-2018 19:26
  
  Reports of shots fired near White House North Lawn. President Trump is not at the White House, he is at Mar-a-Lago.
  
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• Palestinians say Gaza farmer shot dead by Israeli troops

  03-03-2018 19:25
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says a farmer has died after being shot by Israeli troops near the Gaza border.
  
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• The Latest: Trump threatens tax on European cars

  03-03-2018 19:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump, Republicans and trade (all times local):
  
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• Maine's biggest dog sled race gets underway in Fort Kent

  03-03-2018 19:09
  
  FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — The musher who's won Maine's biggest dog sled race eight times aimed for another victory as more than a dozen teams departed from Fort Kent on Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Nor'easter continuing to cause rail delays

  03-03-2018 19:05
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the nor'easter that's battering coastal areas from Maryland to Maine (all times local):
  
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• Report: Army mishandled bomb-sniffing dogs from Afghanistan

  03-03-2018 18:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A report finds that the Army failed to do right by some of the more than 200 bomb-sniffing dogs that served with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, detecting roadside bombs and saving lives.
  
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• Indian prime minister's party notches key state election win

  03-03-2018 18:51
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party on Saturday ended the 25-year uninterrupted rule of a communist party in a northeastern state and consolidated its position in two other states in key provincial elections.
  
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• Woman convicted in suicide text case files appeal

  03-03-2018 18:49
  BOSTON (AP) — A young Massachusetts woman who as a teenager sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself before he did so has asked the state's highest court to overturn her involuntary manslaughter conviction.
  
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• Lawyer: Boys charged in sex assault case were 'roughhousing'

  03-03-2018 18:49
  Attorneys for four Oklahoma teenagers accused in a sexual assault case involving a former high school football teammate say their clients were "roughhousing" and are not guilty as charged. Tulsa lawyer Paul DeMuro said during a news conference Friday that the Bixby High School students charged with second-degree rape by instrumentation were taking part in "a culture of roughhousing that we may think got a little out of hand."
  
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• 2 Spanish skiers killed in avalanche in the French Pyrenees

  03-03-2018 18:46
  PARIS (AP) — Two Spanish skiers died Saturday after being swept away by an avalanche in the French Pyrenees, authorities said.
  
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• Swiss to vote on mandatory public TV fee as Europe watches

  03-03-2018 18:43
  
  BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Voters in Switzerland are deciding whether they should have to keep paying hundreds of francs every year for public television and radio programming, a referendum that's being watched closely elsewhere in Europe.
  
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• Doctors "Sound The Alarm" On Possible Harms Of Saline In IV Bags

  03-03-2018 15:44
  
  New research calls into question what's in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. 
  
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• North Korea Rejects U.S. Preconditions For Holding Talks

  03-03-2018 15:26
  
  North Korea said Saturday it is willing to have talks with the United States, but that it rejects preconditions and Washington’s demands that it must first demonstrate its willingness to denuclearize. 
  
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• Rogers County Man Convicted Of Murder In 2016 NYE Shooting

  03-03-2018 15:21
  
  A man who called police to admit he shot two people is now a convicted murderer. 
  
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• Super Saturday Weather Across Green Country

  03-03-2018 15:00
  
  Make some outdoor plans! We’re in for super Saturday weather all across Green Country. Another taste of spring is in the cards today. 
  
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• Former Incinerator That's Now a Live-Work Space Scorches Tulsa

  03-03-2018 14:19
  Once a place for burning trash, this former incinerator in Tulsa, OK, was transformed into an architectural marvel by a couple of enterprising artists. A former incinerator-turned-live-work space in Tulsa, OK, recently scorched our listings.
  
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• Kroger Stops Gun Sales To Those Under 21

  03-03-2018 13:39
  
  "Recent events demonstrate the need for additional action on the part of responsible gun retailers," the company said in a statement. 
  
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• Police, protesters clash in Kiev; 50 detained

  03-03-2018 10:50
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian police and demonstrators at a tent camp have clashed outside the parliament building in the capital, Kiev. Police say 50 people were detained.
  
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• Malaysia says search for missing plane to end in June

  03-03-2018 10:41
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian official says the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. company will likely end in June, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane's disappearance with renewed hope…
  
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