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Committee to hear “Right to Try” bill - February 18, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Members of an Oklahoma House committee plan to take up legislation that would give terminally ill patients access to medicines that have passed Phase 1 of the Food and Drug Admin...
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Chamber Chat - February 17, 2015
I have the opportunity Tuesday to speak to East Middle School students. These students are working on a tourism project. I will get to explain to them what makes Ponca City unique when it comes to...
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Preliminary hearing set in stabbing case - February 17, 2015
A preliminary hearing has been set for 9 a.m. March 20 in the first-degree murder with deliberate intent case of Aaron Charles LeClair. LeClair, whose 35th birthday is today, is charged in the stab...
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NOC to perform “The Wedding Singer” - February 17, 2015
TONKAWA -- Northern Oklahoma College's Division of Fine Arts will present "The Wedding Singer" as the 2015 Spring Musical Feb. 19-22. Performances of the musical comedy will be at 7:30 p.m...
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NOC offering ACT prep workshop - February 17, 2015
Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa will offer a March 10 ACT prep workshop. The workshop will be held in the Renfro Center and will include registration at 8:30 a.m., materials, a light breakfast...
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Boy dies in accident - February 17, 2015
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say an 11-year-old boy is dead and four other people are injured after their vehicle struck a guardrail and overturned. Lawton police say the pickup truck was travel...
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State prison homicides highest in nation - February 17, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The latest figures from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show Oklahoma has the highest rate of prison homicides in the nation, with state inmates killed at a rate more than three ...
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Oklahoma City pipeline to mitigate drought effects - February 17, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma City officials plan to lay a 29-mile pipeline to help offset the effects of a multiyear drought on the municipal water supply. Water levels at both of the city's norther...
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Group focusing on criminal justice - February 17, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma's governor and the head of the state's prison system are among those working on solutions to the state's rapidly growing prison population. A criminal justice working g...
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Subcommittee to consider education bills - February 17, 2015
Measures that would boost teacher salaries and pump more money into Oklahoma classrooms will be considered by members of a state House subcommittee. But the future of the education funding legislatio...
