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OklahomaStar.com Wednesday 10th March 2010 Issue 69/2010
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"I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on healthcare reform. I ask Congress to finish its work, and I look forward to signing this reform into law."
Barack Obama
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CompSource sale bill dead for the year
Oklahoma's jobless rate continues to improve
3 law enforcement agencies get $1.1 million from car stop

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Oklahoma's Jobless Rate Continues To Improve
Oklahoma tornado destroys homes, kicks off action in Tornado Alley after slow start to season
Bill to ban cell phone use while driving approved
James Anderson: Great player, great person
Wednesday's game: Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma St.

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Tulsa Releases More Email About JAG Grant
Bill would require 4 years of math for students

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Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones signed a free-agent contract Wednesday to play basketball in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) with the Tulsa Shock.

The 34-year-old was stripped of the 100m, 200m, 4x400m Olympic gold medals she won at Sydney as well as her 4x100m and long jump bronze medals after admitting in 2007 that she was using forbidden doping substances at the time of the Games in 2000, as part of the Balco lab scandal.

Jones, who announced last November that she intended making a sporting comeback in basketball, played the sport in college for North Carolina and won a national college championship with the Tar Heels in 1994.

'The WNBA players are the greatest womens basketball players in the world. I welcome my chance to play alongside them,' Jones said at a press conference in Tulsa.

In 2008, Jones spent nearly six months in prison after pleading guilty to perjury after admitted lying to federal investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.


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