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11:37 am
Thu April 4, 2013

Investigators Offering $10K Reward in Carina Saunders Case

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is offering a $10,000 reward in the case of a teenage girl whose dismembered body was found stuffed inside a duffel bag in 2011.

OSBI took over the investigation into the killing of Carina Saunders earlier this year. In February, first-degree murder charges were dropped against the two men who'd been charged in her death.

No one else has been arrested.

Authorities say Saunders' body was dismembered and dumped in a field near a Bethany grocery store.

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11:29 am
Thu April 4, 2013

Prosecutor Clears Enid Officer in Fatal Shooting

ENID, Okla. (AP) — An Enid police officer has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of an armed man last month.

District Attorney Mike Fields says no criminal charges are warranted against Officer Jacob McKinley in the March 23 shooting of Jimmie Wayne Birchfield.

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11:14 am
Thu April 4, 2013

Two People Found Shot to Death at Oklahoma City Motel

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police are investigating after a man and a woman were found shot to death in an Oklahoma City motel room.

Police say officers were called to a Days Inn off Interstate 35 at about 6 p.m. Wednesday on a report of shots fired. Once there, officers discovered a man and woman dead from gunshot wounds.

Authorities say the case appears to be a murder-suicide. Investigators are still attempting to notify relatives of the man and woman.

Local & Regional
8:07 am
Thu April 4, 2013

New Jobs Come to Bartlesville

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Sitel says it will add 100 new workers at its call center in Bartlesville.

The company says the new workers will provide customer support as Sitel takes on a new cable entertainment and broadband services provider. Additional customer service agents and staff members are also needed for Sitel's existing clients.

A job fair is planned for Thursday in Bartlesville at the call center at 3001 E. Frank Phillips Blvd.

Sitel has 120 centers in 24 countries in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Local & Regional
8:04 am
Thu April 4, 2013

Revenue Collections Up

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State Treasurer Ken Miller

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Treasurer Ken Miller says overall revenue collections in March were up slightly, rising by 2.6 percent compared to March 2012.

Miller released figures on Wednesday that show total revenue collections for March were $944.6 million — an increase of $24 million from the last March. The figures show collections were boosted mostly by a $28 million increase in corporate income tax collections — a 32 percent increase over March 2012.

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8:00 am
Thu April 4, 2013

School Safety Measures Pass Panel Easily

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Okla. House panel passes trio of school safety measures, including emergency plan requirements

Three bills containing the recommendations of a task force on school security have easily cleared an Oklahoma House committee, including a measure to impose new requirements for schools to report their emergency plans to authorities.

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7:58 am
Thu April 4, 2013

Missing Airplane Found Crashed in Panhandle

GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say an airplane missing on a flight from Oklahoma to Colorado has been found crashed in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Guymon with at least two people killed.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the single-engine aircraft that disappeared after leaving El Reno Monday morning bound for Colorado Springs, Colo., was found shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday about four miles northwest of Guymon — about 265 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. Lunsford says the burned wreckage was spotted by another pilot.

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11:24 am
Wed April 3, 2013

GE Brings High-skill Jobs to Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — General Electric Co. says it will build a new global research center in Oklahoma, creating 125 new engineering jobs.

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt made the announcement Wednesday alongside Gov. Mary Fallin. The company has not yet picked a specific location for the center but says that selection should happen soon.

GE says it's evaluating locations with proximity to academic institutions like the University of Oklahoma and the skilled workforce in Oklahoma City.

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Local & Regional
9:57 am
Tue April 2, 2013

Hearings in Fairmont Terrace Killings Postponed

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Preliminary hearings set for two brothers charged in the January shooting deaths of four women at a crime-plagued Tulsa apartment complex have been postponed.

Cedric and James Poore were scheduled for hearings Tuesday in the killings of 23-year-old twins Rebeika Powell and Kayetie Melchor, 33-year-old Misty Nunley and 55-year-old Julie Jackson. They've pleaded not guilty.

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9:54 am
Tue April 2, 2013

Food Stamp Restrictions Advance

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma House committee has advanced a bill to make it a felony to share food stamps with people who aren't authorized to receive them.

The Human Services Committee voted 6-3 for the bill Monday with all three Democrats on the panel voting no. The bill has already passed the Senate and now goes to the full House for consideration.

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