Saturday, February 11, 2012
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NeWSolutions awarded Tulsa's trash contract
By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer
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Tulsa's trash board unanimously voted Friday to award the city's new residential trash and ...
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Pruitt defends decision to opt out of multistate bank settlement
By OMER GILLHAM & BARBARA HOBEROCK World Staff Writer
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Other states appear poised to get millions of dollars more than Oklahoma as part of a national ...
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Kialegees pursued casino project in Georgia
By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer
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At the same time the Kialegee Tribal Town of Wetumka was pursuing a gaming opportunity in Broken ...
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Some Oklahoma leaders give thumbs-down to Obama compromise on insurance mandate
By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
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President Barack Obama on Friday announced a compromise to the so-called contraception mandate ...
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Tulsa CARES food pantry helps people with HIV, AIDS stay healthy
By MIKE AVERILL World Staff Writer
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In the 20 years that it has served Tulsa-area residents living with HIV or AIDS, the Tulsa ...
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Broken Arrow woman foils child-abduction attempt; suspect arrested
By DAVID HARPER & ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writers
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The intervention of an alert neighbor short-circuited the attempted abduction of a 13-year-old ...
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Trial in Sweeney killing delayed
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
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The first murder trial scheduled to occur in connection with the 2008 killing of Tulsa businessman ...
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Oklahoma science standards earn an 'F'
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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Oklahoma received a grade of 'F' for its K-12 science education standards, but this time Sooners ...
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Panetta calls for new probe into Marine photo
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JULIE WATSON
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate the Marine ...
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OKC judge accused of adoption fraud to resign
By NOLAN CLAY NewsOK.com
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An Oklahoma County judge who is accused of fraud is resigning.
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Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, killed in crash
By from wire reports
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Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow was killed Friday when he lost control of his car on a snowy ...
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Water rights battle between state, tribes could go to Supreme Court
By MICHAEL MCNUTT NewsOK.com
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Oklahoma's attorney general filed papers Friday asking the state Supreme Court to step in and ...
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Man accused of additional rapes
By ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
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A sex offender who was charged with rape this month has been accused in two other sexual assaults, ...
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Man jailed on domestic assault, arson counts in attack on woman
By ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
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Authorities have arrested a man who is accused of trying to set a woman on fire during a domestic ...
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Author of lewd email resigns from Insurance Department job
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
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The only thing worse than Glenn Craven's Thursday afternoon was his Friday morning.
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Police continuing to investigate Wagoner County gun-range shooting
By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer
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The Wagoner County Sheriff's Office investigation into a Thanksgiving Day shooting at a rural ...
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Longtime Tulsa commercial artist Norma Russell dies at 83
By TIM STANLEY World Staff Writer
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Norma Russell could sketch someone's portrait in 15 minutes or less.
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State recognizes boy for his efforts to build Uganda orphanage
By SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writer
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After going on a mission trip to Africa in the summer of 2010, then 13-year-old Matthew Benjamin ...
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Will Rogers Says
By James Royal
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.' - July 5, 1931
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Once Jewish - now a nun
By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
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The founder of a new Benedictine community in Tulsa has been on a long and winding spiritual ...
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Way back when: Today in history
By GENE CURTIS
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Pumping of fill began to build an artificial island called Treasure Island in San Francisco ...
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Local, State briefs
By Staff Reports
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Both children for whom an Amber Alert was issued Friday night were found about an hour after ...
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Religion calendar
By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
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Service with apostle Gene Mansfield, pastor Nathan Isaacs and The Riders. 6 p.m. Sunday, Ascension ...
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News Shows
By Staff Reports
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Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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Santorum's Oklahoma visit raises interest among voters
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
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Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's rising star in the Republican presidential race may be translating ...
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Oklahoma AG Pruitt explains opting out of federal foreclosure-abuse settlement
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau
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Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Thursday defended his decision to opt out of a multistate ...
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Tulsa's City Council OKs $11.25 million in debt for trash board
By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer
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Tulsa's City Council voted unanimously Thursday to allow the trash board to incur $11.25 million ...
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Oklahoma gets No Child Left Behind waiver
By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
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Oklahoma won its freedom Thursday to go its own way on setting school achievement standards ...
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Infant, toddler found after Amber Alert issued in Tulsa
By DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer
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A baby and a toddler have been found after an Amber Alert was issued Friday night for a dark ...
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Suspect charged with fires, vandalism near 17th and Peoria
By DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer
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Archie Neil Monroe, 46, is charged with six counts of malicious injury to property as well ...
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Snow likely late Sunday in Tulsa area; Snow hits northwest Oklahoma
By Staff and Wire Reports
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On Thursday, it was northwest Oklahoma's turn to receive snow. This weekend, it likely will ...
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Convenience store robbed early Friday
By ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
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The gunman took money from a cash register at the Fiesta Mart at 3902 E. 11th St. about 1:15 ...
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3 people in Collinsville arrested on drug complaints
By RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer
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Three people were arrested Thursday on drug complaints, including possession of LSD, Collinsville ...
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Tulsa Hale boosters say school is improving
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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While Oklahoma's waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act is expected to bring some welcome ...
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Jenks students learning language, culture of China
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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When adults enter a classroom in one particular wing of Jenks East Intermediate School, they ...
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Tulsa's Zink Lake improvement bonds totaling $26 million approved
By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
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The Oklahoma Council on Bond Oversight on Thursday approved the sale of $26 million in bonds ...
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First of Oklahoma National Guard's 45th Infantry troops headed home from Afghanistan
By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer
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A group of about 20 soldiers from the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is slated to return ...
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Oklahoma insurance department apologizes for lewd email
By DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer
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The Oklahoma Insurance Department apologized Thursday for what it described as 'an unauthorized ...
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Ronnie Dunn comes home to Tulsa with solo act
By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer
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A heart-felt 'Oklahomaaaaa!' was the first word out of Ronnie Dunn's mouth on Thursday night ...
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Witness in Tulsa police corruption case is jailed on drug complaint
By ZACK STOYCOFF & OMER GILLHAM World Staff Writers
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A man who testified against a Tulsa police officer in a police corruption trial last year has ...
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Tulsa area law officers earn traffic safety awards
By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer
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Since Tulsa Police Officer Matt Crutchfield started with the traffic unit in Gilcrease Division, ...
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Man gets life term in fatal shooting at apartments
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
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A Tulsa County jury imposed a life prison sentence Thursday upon convicting a man of a fatal ...
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Moody's declines to boost Oklahoma's debt rating
By WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
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A New York bond rating service has declined to lower Oklahoma's cost of borrowing in part because ...
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Way back when: Today in history
By GENE CURTIS
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President Woodrow Wilson warned Great Britain, more than two years before America joined World ...
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Jay Cronley: Classic films are gone with the wind
By JAY CRONLEY World Staff Columnist
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There's a unique variety of moviegoer that can be seen wandering out of theaters between now ...
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Tulsa woman named to board of global nonprofit International House
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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A Tulsa woman has been named to the board of trustees at International House in New York C ...
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Six more Oklahomans hospitalized with flu this week
By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
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Six more people were hospitalized with the flu this week, according to the Oklahoma State Department ...
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Will Rogers says
By Staff Reports
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Somebody is always telling us in the papers how to prevent war. There is only one way in the ...
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Local, State briefs
By Staff Reports
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A man was arrested Wednesday on cocaine-trafficking complaints after someone notified authorities ...
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Corrections, clarifications
By Staff Reports
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A Wednesday Tulsa World Business headline incorrectly described the capitalexpenditure budget ...
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