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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A morgue cooler where bodies are stored at the state Medical Examiner's Office has been repaired.

Spokeswoman Amy Elliott says a part needed to fix the unit was found and installed.

The agency had to move more than two dozen bodies to refrigeration trucks after an employee noticed the cooling system wasn't working properly early Wednesday. Elliott says there was concern about finding the part to fix the cooler because the equipment is about 40 years old.

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a man who was killed in a shooting in Midwest City was a probation and parole officer.

Police were responding to a disturbance call about noon Friday when they found a body in the street. Corrections spokeswoman Joyce Jackson later told reporters the victim was 32-year-old Jeff McCoy, who had worked as a probation officer for almost seven years.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Legislative leaders and officials in Governor Mary Fallin's office say they expect to announce a deal on Monday on how to divvy up Oklahoma's $6.6 billion budget.

House Speaker Kris Steele and Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman met with the governor's office until about 6 p.m. Friday to hammer out the final details of the budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1st.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Lottery officials are looking for the owner of a $2 million ticket from Wednesday's Powerball drawing.

Officials said Thursday the ticket was sold at Murphy USA on Santa Fe Avenue in Edmond.

A $2 ticket that matches five numbers in the drawing but not the Powerball wins $1 million. If the buyer adds on the $1 multiplier, the winning amount doubles to $2 million.

The winner has 180 days to come forward and claim the prize.

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BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say two people are dead after a motorcycle and car collided in Broken Arrow.

Police say the wreck happened Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Elm Place and Fargo Street. The Broken Arrow Police Department says a man was driving a white motorcycle at a "high rate of speed." He went over a hill and crashed into a woman driving a 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix who was turning left onto Elm Place.

The motorcycle struck the driver's door of the Pontiac. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The governor and Oklahoma's Republican-controlled Legislature have reached an agreement on a nearly one-half of 1 percent cut to the personal income tax rate.

House Speaker Kris Steele, Senate president Pro Tem Brian Bingman and Republican Governor Mary Fallin announced details of the plan Thursday, flanked by dozens of legislators.

Reducing the state's income tax has been a top priority for Fallin, who says lower income taxes will make the state more attractive to businesses and industries.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The state has rested its case in the federal lawsuit over a casino that a small American Indian tribe wants to build in Broken Arrow.

Attorneys representing the state called a handful of witnesses Thursday who all opposed plans by the Kialegee Tribal Town to build the Red Clay Casino.

Attorneys for the tribe will begin presenting their case later Thursday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A U.S. Census Bureau report shows Hispanics remain the largest minority group in Oklahoma with the Native American population making gains.

The 2011 Census estimates show that Hispanics make up 9.1 percent of Oklahoma's estimated 3.79 million residents and that the Native American Alaskan Native group makes up 8.9 percent. Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are counted as one group by the bureau.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A former Muskogee County jail detention officer has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from an assault on an inmate at the facility in October.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Jerrod Lane entered the plea to use of excessive force, violating the civil rights of an inmate, falsifying records and making false statements to the FBI.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Certain Oklahoma welfare recipients could be subjected to drug tests under a bill signed into law by Governor Mary Fallin.

The bill was one of a dozen measures Fallin signed late Wednesday.

The measure authorizes the Department of Human Services to conduct drug tests on welfare applicants if they have a reasonable suspicion the person is using drugs. The proposed law applies to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or TANF, which serves more than 20,000 Oklahomans each month.