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2013 Crawfest features Cajun cuisine

TULSA - 2News reporter Liz Bryant shows how to eat a crawfish at the 2013 Crawfest. The festival features the very best of Cajun cuisine and live music on Saturday, May 18. Cajun Ed's Hebert's Specialty Meats located on 71st Street just west of Lewis Avenue hosts the family event from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Come and enjoy all your favorite Cajun foods like crawfish etouffee, crawfishboudin, ...
Gov. Fallin proposes last-minute change to Insure Oklahoma program

Gov. Mary Fallin proposed a last-minute legislative change Friday to the state's Insure Oklahoma program that would direct $50 million in state tobacco taxes to pay for more than 9,000 people who are expected to lose their health insurance under the ...
No injuries in multi-car accident

TULSA - Emergency crews responded to a multi-car accident early Saturday morning around 2:45 a.m. on a Tulsa highway. A truck was stalled in the eastbound lanes of the Broken Arrow Expressway, just east of Memorial. A vehicle swerved to avoid hitting the truck, hit a retaining wall and then spun out. A second vehicle was not able to stop and rear-ended the truck. Police and fire were on the ...
Investigators search for clues in homicide

Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the hospital. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the site of ...
CDC Public pools not as clean as you think

Barrett Tryon Just in time for pools to open across the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have come out with a new study about what's lurking in that ...

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Black Book (Zwartboek) [DVD]

Having been a child during the Nazi occupation of Holland during World War II, it is not surprising that many of director Paul Verhoeven's early films, including Soldier of Orange (1977) and All Things Pass (1979), dealt with the war and the Dutch resistance. The idea of war i ... ...

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Driver Killed At Rural Rogers County Intersection

A man was killed in a two-car collision on a rural Rogers County Road. The early morning crash took place at the intersection of South 425 Road and West 590 Road about five miles east of ...
Stalled Pickup Causes Chain Reaction Wreck Damaging Tulsa Police Car

A stalled pickup led to a chain reaction wreck involving a Tulsa police car. It happened shortly before 3 a.m. on the eastbound Broken Arrow Expressway near Memorial ...
Kashunda wins $1000 in our “We’ll Pay Your Rent or Mortgage” giveaway

Kashunda from Midwest City. Won $1,000 dollars in the We’ll Pay Your Mortgage Or Rent giveawaysponsored by RCB Bank. She plans on paying bills and going out to see Iron Man 3. You can play ...
Report N Korea fires short-range missiles

North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...
Feds to probe Connecticut train crash

Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the ...

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Le Meridien Noumea, New Caledonia

This deluxe hotel is reputedly the finest in New Caledonia. The drive from Tontouta international airport is 45 minutes and ...

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Knicks, Pacers, Grizzlies, Thunder in semis

New York, Oklahoma City, Indiana and Memphis all won their first-round NBA playoff series with Game 6 victories, reaching the Conference semifinals.

The New York Knicks got the staggers Friday and almost gave up a 26-point lead but steadied to beat the Boston Celtics 88-80 while Oklahoma City Thunder booked its spot in the last eight for the third straight season by downing the Houston Rockets 103-94, reports Xinhua.

The Indiana Pacers withstood a big final-quarter comeback from Atlanta and beat the Hawks 81-73, and the Memphis Grizzlies completed a comeback from a 0-2 series deficit by beating the Los Angeles Clippers 118-105. With Miami, San Antonio and Golden State already into the next stage, the last spot will be decided when Brooklyn host Chicago in their Game 7.

Boston cut a 49-75 deficit to four points but Carmelo Anthony made a jumper to give New York an 81-75 lead and then sank a 3-pointer. Then J.R. Smith converted a three-point play to restore the double-digit lead the Knicks had nursed most of the game.

Anthony finished with 21 points for the Knicks, who won a playoff series for the first time since the Patrick Ewing era in 2000. They will host the Pacers in Sunday's opening game of their Conference semifinal series. ...