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Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe trying to persuade Tea Party lawmakers to support highway funding

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Conservative Republican Jim Inhofe is a lead negotiator on a highway bill that has some funding problems and a provision that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline.


2 Tibetans set selves on fire outside Lhasa temple Updated: 0 min ago BEIJING (AP) — Self-immolations are being reported in Tibet's capital for the first time since Tibetans began setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule more than a year ago. Radio Free Asia said in a statement that two men were taken away by authorities within minutes of setting themselves on fire... Read More
Memorial Day 2012: Oklahoma military personnel who died in the past year Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 Oklahoma military personnel who died in the past year. Read More
Memorial Day 2012: List of military personnel from Oklahoma who have died since 2003 Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 These military members have died in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Philippines since 2003 and had listed Oklahoma as their home state, according to the U.S. Department of Defense Read More
Video captures plane before it crashes, killing 4 Updated: 15 min ago Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said Sunday. Zoe Keliher of the National Transportation Safety Board said the video shows the single-engine Cessna 172 flying at... Read More
3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho National Guard rescuers plucked a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter from a snow-covered mountain-side Sunday afternoon, more than 15 hours after the trio survived a nighttime plane crash onto a steep, forested slope in a remote part of the state. Authorities said the... Read More
Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration Updated: 1 hr ago SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Crowds gathered along San Francisco's waterfront Sunday, while San Francisco Bay was crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. Tens of thousands of people were expected to flock to the area to enjoy a... Read More
Tropical Storm Beryl strengthens, nears US coast Updated: 1 hr ago Tropical Storm Beryl was wrecking some Memorial Day weekend plans on Sunday, causing shoreline campers to pack up and head inland and leading to the cancellation of some events as the storm approached the southeastern U.S. Beryl was still well offshore, but officials in Georgia and Florida were bracing for... Read More
Polls: Greek's pro-austerity parties gaining Updated: 1 hr ago ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three weeks before Greece has another election, opinion polls published Sunday indicated the election will result in no single party gaining a majority in parliament, but two parties that favor implementing Greece's bailout programs could be able to form a coalition government. The four... Read More
Shawnee sailor killed in Afghanistan Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 Hospitalman Eric D. Warren of Shawnee died May 26 of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device blast in the Sangin District of the Helmand Province, according to the Department of Defense. Read More
Syria denies Houla killings, UN condemns attack Updated: 2 hr ago BEIRUT (AP) — Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people — including women and children — in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the U.N. Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. The... Read More
OH police arrest baby sitter of child found dead Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 CINCINNATI (AP) — Police say a baby sitter for a one-year-old boy found dead in a Cincinnati apartment has been arrested on charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. Sgt. Gary Conner says Cincinnati police arrested 26-year-old Marquita Burch of Covington, Ky., on Saturday after she reported... Read More
Light rain, more aircraft aid Mich. wildfire fight Updated: 3 hr ago NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) — A bit of rain and four more aircraft helped Michigan authorities in their attempts to contain a wildfire that has consumed 31.6 square miles of Upper Peninsula forest and destroyed at least 61 buildings, an official said Sunday. About 230 crew members — 40 of them involved in aerial... Read More
Crews on NM fire prepare to send copters into air Updated: 3 hr ago GLENWOOD, N.M. (AP) — Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico benefited from lighter winds Sunday, allowing them to focus on building protection lines on key flanks of the blaze and preparing to send water-dropping helicopters into the air for the first time in several days. The... Read More
Long road for NYC prosecutors in Etan Patz case Updated: 4 hr ago NEW YORK (AP) — For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases. Pedro Hernandez, 51, was charged with second-degree... Read More
Father of prisoner of war speaks at annual rally Updated: 4 hr ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The father of a U.S. soldier who was taken prisoner in Afghanistan thanked the motorcycle riders of Rolling Thunder on Sunday for raising awareness of missing-in-action troops and prisoners of war. At the annual Rolling Thunder rally on the National Mall, Bob Bergdahl promised his son: "You... Read More
Rally car strikes Irish crowd; 2 killed, 7 injured Updated: 5 hr ago DUBLIN (AP) — A race car went out of control on a rural Irish road and crashed into a crowd of about 30 spectators Sunday, killing two people and seriously injuring seven, authorities said. Witnesses said the car crashed through a fence and into the onlookers before coming to rest on its side beside a home near... Read More
UPDATE: Woman's body found in Lake Murray after boating accident Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 The body of Robbie Watts Brooks, 51, of Ardmore, was found about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. She was knocked overboard when two boats collided Saturday night on Lake Murray. Read More
Spain: ETA's military chief arrested in France Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 MADRID (AP) — The military chief for of the violent Basque separatist group ETA was arrested Sunday in southern France along with another man accused of being his assistant, Spanish authorities said. Oroitz Gurruchaga Gogorza and Xabier Aramburu were taken into custody in the small rural town of Cauna in... Read More
Nepal PM calls new elections for November Updated: 6 hr ago KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's prime minister called new elections for November after the term of the Constituent Assembly expired at midnight Sunday without political leaders completing the task of writing a new constitution. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai said the Contituent Assembly had failed to achieve... Read More
2 brothers sentenced to death in separate states Updated: 6 hr ago SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a pipe during an attempted escape. For Berget's immediate family, his fate is somewhat familiar. He is the second member... Read More
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