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June 19, 2013
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Big crowd gets first look at new Tulsa park's design

A Gathering Place for Tulsa lived up to its name Tuesday night as hundreds of people packed into Tulsa Community College's Center for Creativity for the unveiling of the park's Phase 1 design.

CONTINUING COVERAGE: Find stories, interviews and photos about Tulsa’s upcoming park.

 
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Heat rallies, tops Spurs in OT of NBA Finals Game 6

James missed nine of his first 12 shots, but scored 16 points in the fourth to rally the Heat from a 10-point deficit.

 
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Gov. Fallin announces French aerospace manufacturer for Grove

The 2013 Paris Air Show yielded a new aerospace manufacturer for Grove, where Australian firm Ferra Engineering will expand with a new 20-person facility.

 
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Now not the time for a public-safety tax

There's no doubt that Tulsans consider public safety to be a top priority.

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3rd place for the Okies

The Okies from Muskogee are coming home.

 
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Big crowd gets first look at new Tulsa park's design

By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer

A Gathering Place for Tulsa lived up to its name Tuesday night as hundreds of people packed into Tulsa Community College's Center for Creativity for the unveiling of the park's Phase 1 design.

CONTINUING COVERAGE: Find stories, interviews and photos about Tulsa’s upcoming park.

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TCC Metro Campus closed Wednesday to restore electricity

By AMANDA BLAND & KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff Writers

The Metro Campus of Tulsa Community College will remain closed Wednesday as technicians work to restore electricity to its main building and replace a power distribution panel that caught fire Monday night, officials said.

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Tulsa County Commissioners show interest in return of 'Four to Fix'

By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer

"It's no secret that we are in need of a new juvenile justice center as well as improvements to our levee system. We also have needs for road and bridge improvements throughout the county," Karen Keith said in an email.

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Corrections professionals connect DOC exec's resignation to private prison lobbying

By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau

Corrections professionals on Tuesday expressed shock and sadness that Department of Corrections Executive Director Justin Jones was resigning.

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State teacher education programs criticized in national report

By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer

Most of the nation's 1,450 teacher-preparation programs - including programs in Oklahoma - are falling far short of adequately training teachers for the realities of the classroom, according to a national report released Tuesday.

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Independent investigation of Owasso City Manager's Office completed

By RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer

A Tulsa attorney has completed an independent probe into the office of Owasso's suspended city manager, and the City Council is expected to review the investigative report by July 1, Mayor Doug Bonebrake said Tuesday.

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Couple says Tulsa Public Schools lost their 7-year-old for hours

By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer

A couple is searching for answers about how Tulsa Public Schools officials lost track of their 7-year-old daughter on the first day of summer school.

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Kaiser: New park made to bring Tulsa together

By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer

The man responsible for constructing A Gathering Place for Tulsa didn't utter one public word at Tuesday night's unveiling of the park's final design.

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By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer

In one case, a Hispanic couple who had routinely flown Mexican flags in front of their apartment were told to move after they flew a rainbow gay-pride flag.

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By SAMANTHA VICENT World Staff Writer

Dena Fate and Irene Johnston may be the last ones remaining in their families, but relatives say their spunky personalities remain as sharp as ever.

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Way back when: Today in history

By GENE CURTIS

The body of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, who was free pending an appeal of his conviction of currency law violations, was found hanging from a London bridge eight days after he disappeared from his Milan apartment.

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Audit: Oklahoma Fire Marshal's Office is missing firearms, lax in prison inspections

By RANDY ELLIS NewsOK.com

The state Fire Marshal's Office can't account for a missing shotgun and has failed to meet its legal duty to inspect all Oklahoma correctional facilities annually, a state audit has revealed.

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House passes bill restricting abortion to the first 20 weeks after conception

By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press

The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as another example of a GOP war on women.

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Owasso City Manager Rodney Ray's arraignment postponed

By RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer

The arraignment of Owasso's suspended city manager was moved Tuesday to next month.

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Man serving life prison term in Tulsa rape granted new plea hearing

By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer

A man who is serving a life prison term for a Tulsa rape is getting a new hearing on his request to withdraw the plea that led to the sentence.

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NSA director says spying foiled Wall Street plot

By KIMBERLY DOZIER & DONNA CASSATA Associated Press

The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying.

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CBO: Immigration bill could bolster economy

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About 8 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States would initially gain legal status under sweeping legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, adding that the bill would lower federal deficits in each of the next two decades.

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Afghan forces take over as peace talks loom

By JAY PRICE McClatchy News Service

Afghan security forces are now officially in charge of protecting their country from the insurgents whom the U.S.-led coalition of foreign troops has been fighting for nearly 12 years, President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday, even as news broke that the Taliban were opening a long-discussed political office in Qatar, clearing a potential path to peace talks.

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Killer executed for deaths of LeFlore County couple

By TIM TALLEY Associated Press

Oklahoma executed a man Tuesday for the stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked.

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Train engineer told doctor of eye problems before fatal crash

By CHRIS CASTEEL NewsOK.com

Two years before his failing vision likely contributed to a fatal crash in the Oklahoma Panhandle, freight train engineer Dan Hall told one of his eye doctors that he was having trouble distinguishing the color of train signals.

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G-8 seeks unity on Syrian peace talks

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK & CASSANDRA VINOGRAD Associated Press

President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice Tuesday on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement - yet couldn't publicly agree on whether this means President Bashar Assad must go.

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States get more time to reach U.S. Education Department goals

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States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told school chiefs on Tuesday.

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Exploding shells set off a fire that was triggering explosions Wednesday at a military depot in southern Russia, injuring about 30 people and causing the evacuation of more than 6,000 from the nearby village of Nagorny, investigators and emergency workers said.

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Local, State briefs

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A man who is charged in a March 17 fatal shooting in Tulsa was ordered to stand trial after a preliminary hearing Monday in Osage County District Court.

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Nation briefs

By Wire reports

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial over giving massive amounts of classified material to WikiLeaks has gone into recess until next week.

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Daily U.S. Casualties

By Associated Press

Afghanistan: As of Tuesday, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

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Births

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OKLAHOMA LOTTERY RESULTS FOR 06/19/13

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