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Fall break this Thursday, Friday; watch for children - October 15, 2018
The Ponca City Police Department, partnering with the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office, reminds drivers that local schools will be observing fall break this Thursday and Friday. Students will be ridi...
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Chamber Chat - October 15, 2018
We will have a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m. for The Attic Boutique located downtown at 322 E. Grand Avenue. Deana Reid is the new owner. Please join us in helping welcome her...
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Three deaths in Oklahoma fire ‘definitely’ homicides - October 15, 2018
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Police say the deaths of three people whose bodies were found after a house fire in Oklahoma are being investigated as a triple homicide. The fire broke out early Sunday at a ho...
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Proposals could further cut adult smoking rate - October 15, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The head of Oklahoma's leading tobacco-cessation organization says there will be new opportunities to cut tobacco use when a new class of Oklahoma lawmakers takes office. Tobacco...
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Man released from hospital after Okla. canal electrocution - October 14, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Arkansas man who was electrocuted last month after he jumped into a canal in Oklahoma City's downtown entertainment district to try and save another individual who had fallen i...
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Officials: More than 300,000 visit Tulsa’s Gathering Place - October 14, 2018
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Officials say more than 300,000 people have visited Tulsa's Gathering Place riverfront park since it opened last month. The Tulsa World reports that Gathering Place drew 55,000 vi...
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Financial issues force closure of hospital in Pauls Valley - October 14, 2018
PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) - A financially troubled community hospital in southern Oklahoma has closed its doors and discontinued ambulance service. Officials at Pauls Valley Regional Medical Center cl...
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Sales brisk at Oklahoma medical marijuana business - October 14, 2018
FAIRFAX, Okla. (AP) - The operator of one of Oklahoma's first medical marijuana businesses says he's selling all of the seedlings he can produce. Scott Huffman owns Wild Herb LLC in Fairfax, about 89...
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Body of missing Oklahoma man found in Arkansas River - October 14, 2018
BRAGGS, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the body of a missing Oklahoma man has been found in the Arkansas River. Troopers say the body of 29-year-old Luke T. Dennis of Muskogee was disc...
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Former Kansas sheriff’s deputy sentenced for lying about Uzi - October 13, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A former deputy with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for lying to investigators about a missing machine gun. U.S. Att...
