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Season Ends For Tulsa Softball
The Tulsa softball team fell to Northern Iowa 2-1 Saturday afternoon in the NCAA Lincoln Regional at Bowlin Stadium. The Golden Hurricane closes the 2013 season with a 42-16-1 record. Senior Lacey Middlebrooks (14-4) pitched a complete-game, while junior third baseman Jill Barrett singled twice and scored a run for TU. Middlebrooks and Barrett are part of a group of 10 seniors and juniors that ...
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Man killed in Rogers County car crash
ROGERS COUNTY, Okla. - A Claremore man is dead after a collision at an intersection in Rogers County Saturday morning. The accident occurred around 7:15 a.m. when a truck headed west on EW/590 crashed into car traveling south on NS4250. The car, driven William Cooper, 33, failed to stop at the stop sign and was hit by the truck on the driver's side. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ...
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PHOTOS Your severe weather pictures – May 18
PHOTOS: Okla. pets seeking loving families Have severe weather pictures? Upload them here and you could see them on air. Add your pictures by clicking the ';Submit Your Photo'; button ...
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Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million
That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...
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Mourners Remember Cascia Hall Grad Killed In Grand Lake Boat Crash
She graduated from Cascia Hall in 2010, then she went on to study fashion design and Chinese at the University of Arkansas, in the fall she would have started her senior ...
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OVCA celebrates first graduating class
TULSA - The first graduating class of the Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy accepted their diplomas in Tulsa Saturday. Thirty-one of the senior class' 50 graduates turned their tassels and tossed their caps in front of hundreds of friends and family members at the Tulsa Event Center. The charter, established in 2011, is the virtual home to 2,100 students in grades kindergarten through 12th ...
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Time Waning For Oklahoma Lawmakers To Tackle Credits
OKLAHOMA CITY - Despite calls by several Oklahoma legislators to address hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and exemptions for businesses and industries, little has been done as another session approaches its end. At the same time, other legislators are still trying to write even more tax giveaways into state law for things like tickets and hospitality suites to ...
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North Tulsa Forum Discusses Brady District Name Issue
Some North Tulsans met for their monthly district forum Saturday morning and listened to a city councilor's brief statement regarding the Brady District name ...
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Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes
Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...
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Oklahoma Severe Storm Updates
Follow live severe storm updates, road closings and travel conditions below. The following tweets are from reporters, state officials and ...
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Live Wire Tornado watch issued until 11 p.m.
There is a tornado watch for much of western Oklahoma and parts of central Oklahoma until 11 p.m. We are tracking the possibility of severe thunderstorm development right here on the KOCO.com Live Wire. The tornado watch includes the following counties: Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Greer, Harmon, ...
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$600M jackpot worlds second largest
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million drawing. The odds of winning the game's largest jackpot remain astronomically high: 1 in 175.2 million. But since about 80 percent of the possible combinations have been purchased, ...
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Tornado watch issued for western central Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is within the area that's under the watch until 11 p.m. Saturday. Forecasters say the storm system will progress eastward across Oklahoma on Sunday. The threat of storms with the potential to produce tornadoes is to continue into Sunday night in the state's ...
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Sallisaw Man To Stand Trial For 1997 Beating Death During Robbery
SALLISAW, Oklahoma - A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to put a Sallisaw man on trial for a 1997 beating death during a robbery. During a preliminary hearing Friday, Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ordered 38-year-old Rex Richard Robbins III to be tried on a first-degree murder charge. He is accused in the death of 28-year-old Mitchell Dayne ...
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Oklahoma Teen Injured In Crash After 17-Mile Pursuit
A trooper tried to pull Parks' 2003 Dodge pickup over on a county road just after midnight Saturday after the teen went outside his lane while making a turn. The "driver attempted to elude for 17.6 miles before losing control and striking a utility pole," the trooper said in his ...
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Report Car drives into Va. parade crowd
The AP said it happened at about 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival. The event celebrates the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, ...
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Forecasters Potential tornado threat for Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Forecasters with the National Weather Service say severe thunderstorms with possible tornadoes are to move across much of ...
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Crash investigation may restrict train service for days
Train service in the busy New York-to-New Haven corridor may be restricted for days as officials investigate Friday's rush-hour collision of two trains in Connecticut -- an incident that sent dozens to hospitals -- officials said ...
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11 sets of twins at Afton Public Schools
AFTON, Okla. - The chance of having twins in the United States has increased over the last few decades, and people in Afton, Okla. believe the odd s are especially in their favor. This year, Afton Public Schools had 11 sets of twins across its district. What makes this number interesting is there are just under 500 students at Afton, from grads PreK to 12th grade. "It's pretty special, ...
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Time waning for Okla. lawmakers to tackle credits
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Despite calls by several Oklahoma legislators to address hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and exemptions for businesses and industries, little has been done as another session approaches its ...
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Okla. man to be tried on charge from 1997 death
During a preliminary hearing Friday, Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ordered 38-year-old Rex Richard Robbins III to be tried on a first-degree murder charge. He is accused in the death of 28-year-old Mitchell Dayne ...
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Storm Shield app sale extended
TULSA - We've reduced the price of our Storm Shield severe weather app. What's already a great deal for $4.99 can now be had for only $2.99! Hurry though this sale is only available through 10 p.m. ...
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Okla. court upholds life sentence in uncles death
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence of a 38-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his uncle to ...
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Okla. AG sought delay in regional haze hearing
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has asked the state's environmental agency to delay a hearing Monday on a new plan by Tulsa-based utility Public Service Co. of Oklahoma to deal with regional ...
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Boy 13 Arrested For Elk City Robbery
ELK CITY, Oklahoma - Police in Elk City have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of robbing a convenience store while armed with a knife. Workers at Spiveys Convenience Store told police a robber wearing a bandana over his face walked into the business around 6 p.m. Friday, May 17, waved a knife and demanded money. He took an undisclosed amount of money and ran out of the store. Witnesses saw ...
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Tulsa city hall due for make over
The moving of city hall in 2008 was contentious, but was framed as beneficial to the city. In 2010 this may be coming true as new development plans for the old building take shape, alongside wider plans to recreate the downtown experience.
It was first reported in 2007 that the city council would be moved to a new City Hall and that the old City Hall building would be sold. Tulsa news media were told the move would benefit the city economically as the new building would be cheaper to operate and maintain, while the sale of the old building would partially fund the purchase of the new one. Read more
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