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• Warm & Windy Thursday Raises Fire Danger Across Oklahoma

  15-03-2018 16:02
  Welcome to the warming trend. Temps in the 40s now will enter the mid-70s this afternoon along with gusty south winds from 20 to 30 mph and mostly sunny sky.
  
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• Tulsa Leaders Holding Rally Calling For Teacher Pay Raise

  15-03-2018 16:02
  A potential teacher walkout is coming in 18 days, if state lawmakers cant pass a pay raise and funding package for public school teachers. Organizers say its purpose is to call on the Legislature to put together a funding package and prevent a teacher walkout.
  
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• Without Toys R Us, 30,000 jobs, a black hole for toy makers

  15-03-2018 13:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The demise of Toys R Us will have a ripple effect on everything from toy makers to consumers to landlords.
  
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• Energy's Perry: No interest in heading Veterans Affairs

  15-03-2018 13:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he had no interest in becoming the next head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, flatly rejecting speculation that he would soon take over the position amid rapidly eroding White House support…
  
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• Russia vows to expel UK envoys in spy poisoning dispute

  15-03-2018 13:24
  
  LONDON (AP) — Russia will "certainly" expel British diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to Britain's decision to send 23 Russians home over the poisoning of a former spy, Russia's foreign minister said Thursday.
  
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• Trump confirms CNBC contributor Kudlow to be economic aide

  15-03-2018 13:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that he has picked CNBC contributor Larry Kudlow as his top economic adviser and said the country is in line for a long run of upbeat financial news.
  
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• North Korean foreign minister visits Sweden

  15-03-2018 13:17
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — North Korea's foreign minister is traveling to Sweden Thursday, a surprise move that could be a first step toward a meeting in the Scandinavian country between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
  
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• Sketch released of fake officer accused in sex assault

  15-03-2018 13:15
  ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police have released a sketch of a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a woman while posing as a law enforcement officer.
  
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• Man shoots 2 at hospital before killing self; 1 victim dead

  15-03-2018 13:07
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — One man is dead and another is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire inside an Alabama hospital and then fatally shot himself, police said.
  
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• Crash slows westbound traffic of BA Expressway near U.S. 169

  15-03-2018 13:02
  
  The crash, which was reported as an injury accident, occurred just east of U.S. 169.
  
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• Groups: Duterte can't evade accountability by quitting court

  15-03-2018 12:55
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and government officials can still face investigation by the International Criminal Court for thousands of killings under his anti-drug war until his decision to withdraw from the tribunal takes effect after a…
  
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• Kentucky police search for suspect in officer's killing

  15-03-2018 12:49
  PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police have released the name of a man wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky police officer.
  
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• Trump says he made up facts in meeting with Trudeau

  15-03-2018 12:40
  
  He said he insisted to the Canadian prime minister that the U.S. runs a trade deficit Canada without knowing whether that was the case.
  
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• Massachusetts woman guilty of endangerment in son's death

  15-03-2018 12:39
  LYNN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has been found guilty in the death of her 4-month-old son who prosecutors say was left "largely unattended" in a homeless shelter.
  
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• Police seek man, 2 young kids after children's mother killed

  15-03-2018 12:36
  MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — Police say a father who disappeared with his two young children is considered a person of interest in the fatal shooting of their mother at a suburban Chicago gas station.
  
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• Mueller's latest cooperator is a convicted pedophile

  15-03-2018 12:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a few days before the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration and a Lebanese-American businessman was on his way to Mar-a-Lago.
  
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• Ohio Rep. Kaptur to become longest-serving woman in US House

  15-03-2018 12:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur is poised to become the longest-serving female member in the U.S. House.
  
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• Delaware attorney punished for sexual, demeaning comments

  15-03-2018 12:35
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Delaware Supreme Court has punished an attorney for making sexually explicit and demeaning remarks in correspondence to state prosecutors and a court.
  
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• Woman charged with murder in death of Missouri officer

  15-03-2018 12:34
  CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — A woman is now charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a western Missouri police officer killed last week.
  
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• Syria marks 7 years of war; hundreds leave besieged enclave

  15-03-2018 12:28
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of civilians streamed out of a town in Syria's besieged, opposition-held enclave of eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing on foot to government-held territory near the capital, Damascus, according to footage on state-run Syrian television.
  
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• OSU football coach Mike Gundy says he'd help foot the bill to make Stillwater schools safer

  15-03-2018 12:24
  
  "I'm willing to do whatever ... if we can protect our kids," Gundy told the Stillwater school board.
  
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• Officials: NYPD officer took part in heroin trafficking ring

  15-03-2018 12:24
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal drug enforcement officials say a New York Police Department officer helped her boyfriend run a heroin trafficking ring that spanned from Mexico to New York.
  
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• Mazzio's offering free dinner buffet for Oklahoma teachers

  15-03-2018 12:12
  
  Every educator with a current Oklahoma teacher ID can stop by one of 66 locations on Tuesday evenings from March 20 to April 24, according to the restaurant chain.
  
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• Trump admits making up trade claim in Trudeau talk

  15-03-2018 12:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump freestyled with the facts when talking trade with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  
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• Kremlin: Spy scandal won't disrupt presidential election

  15-03-2018 12:10
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says a mushrooming diplomatic scandal over the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain won't disrupt Russia's presidential election.
  
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• The Latest: Syrian TV shows hundreds leaving rebel enclave

  15-03-2018 12:06
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria as it marks seven years of war this week (all times local):
  
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• Prison death highlights challenges of assigning cellmates

  15-03-2018 07:46
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Glenn Cox went before the parole board with a plan and a bandage on his forehead.
  
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• Police say 2 shot, wounded at Alabama hospital, gunman dead

  15-03-2018 03:23
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a Birmingham, Alabama, hospital, wounding two men before turning the gun on himself Wednesday night, police said.
  
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• No charges in police shooting that inspired memorial

  15-03-2018 03:20
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire state trooper will not be charged in the fatal shooting of a man whose death inspired a roadside memorial that carried similarities to the plot of the Oscar-nominated film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,…
  
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• Docs link Trump Org lawyer to effort to silence porn star

  15-03-2018 03:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New documents show a second lawyer with ties to President Donald Trump was involved in legal efforts to keep adult film star Stormy Daniels from talking about her alleged affair with Trump.
  
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• Chinese workers tricked into illegal work on Saipan

  15-03-2018 03:07
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Zhou Qingjiang was toiling in a factory in China's rust belt when he decided to pack his bags for America. A recruiter guaranteed a job that paid $3,000 a month — more than triple the average wage…
  
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• 1-year-old girl among 4 apparent Brooklyn shooting victims

  15-03-2018 03:03
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of four apparent shooting victims, including a 1-year-old girl, were found in a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday, hours before students throughout New York City participated in walkouts to demand action on gun violence.
  
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• California pair who housed kids in desert shack get new home

  15-03-2018 03:01
  
  JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California couple found with their three children in a makeshift desert shack said they hope to be reunited with their kids now that they have a house to live in.
  
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• China tells Vatican it's fighting illegal organ transplants

  15-03-2018 02:57
  ROME (AP) — Chinese health authorities told a Vatican trafficking conference that Beijing's efforts to crack down on illegal "underground" organ transplants have resulted in 220 arrests and 100 victims being rescued over the past 10 years.
  
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• Virginia farm worker becomes buried in soybeans, dies

  15-03-2018 02:56
  AMELIA COURTHOUSE, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a Virginia farm worker was killed when he became buried in soybeans.
  
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• Trump promotes tax cuts, campaigns for GOP in Missouri

  15-03-2018 02:47
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Trying to turn attention back to tax cuts and away from the staffing turmoil in his administration, President Donald Trump promised Wednesday that more relief was on the way.
  
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• AP: Families feel deserted after sex assaults at base school

  15-03-2018 02:40
  
  The three military fathers sat at the commander's conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help.
  
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• Trump picks camera-proven Kudlow as top economic aide

  15-03-2018 02:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has chosen Larry Kudlow to be his top economic aide, elevating the influence of a longtime fixture on the CNBC business news network who previously served in the Reagan administration and has emerged as…
  
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• Man accused of hacking ATMs to dispense cash without card

  15-03-2018 02:39
  NEW YORK (AP) — They call it "jackpotting." A Queens man is accused of stealing nearly a quarter of a million dollars from ATMs by hacking them to dispense cash like winning a slot machine jackpot.
  
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• State Senate to vote on 12.7 percent pay raise for teachers in late session

  15-03-2018 02:37
  
  The Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday night is poised to vote on a revenue package that would give teachers a 12.7 percent raise.
  
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• Washington state moves to protect endangered killer whales

  15-03-2018 02:18
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — With the number of endangered orcas that frequent the inland waters of Washington state at a 30-year low, Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday directed state agencies to take immediate and longer-term steps to protect the struggling killer…
  
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• Deputies: Man killed ex, her new boyfriend, then himself

  15-03-2018 02:03
  SILVER SPRINGS SHORES, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend before taking his own life.
  
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• Police: Report of shots fired on Northwestern campus a hoax

  15-03-2018 01:53
  
  EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — A report of a gunman at a Northwestern University residence hall and shots fired was a hoax, a suburban Chicago police official said Wednesday.
  
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• The Latest: Walkout hits close to home for Nevada students

  15-03-2018 01:51
  
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence (all times local):
  
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• Alleged leader of mosque bombing could be threatening figure

  15-03-2018 01:51
  
  CLARENCE, Ill. (AP) — A former sheriff's deputy and purported ringleader in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque emerges in court documents as a sometimes-threatening figure with anti-government views who also wrote books and attracted others into his shadowy group.
  
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• Harper Lee estate sues over 'Mockingbird' Broadway version

  15-03-2018 01:44
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The estate of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of the novel, arguing that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and other characters from the…
  
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• Michigan Senate passes legislation backed by Nassar victims

  15-03-2018 01:43
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Senate on Wednesday passed bills inspired by the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, voting to retroactively give the imprisoned sports doctor's victims more time to sue, restrict governments' ability to claim immunity from such…
  
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• Lawmaker who nearly beat Cochran to run for his seat again

  15-03-2018 01:31
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An insurgent Mississippi Republican on Wednesday once again jumped into the race for a U.S. Senate seat he sought in 2014, catching flak anew from fellow party members even though the seat will be open this…
  
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• Glenpool High School student arrested, another injured during dispute over national walkout

  15-03-2018 01:30
  Investigators said the altercation began on Snapchat over what was described as "differing opinions" regarding the nationwide student-led demonstrations to protest gun violence.
  
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