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  • Live Wire Tornado watch issued until 11 p.m.

    There is a tornado watch for much of western Oklahoma and parts of central Oklahoma until 11 p.m. We are tracking the possibility of severe thunderstorm development right here on the KOCO.com Live Wire. The tornado watch includes the following counties: Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Greer, Harmon, ...

  • $600M jackpot worlds second largest

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million drawing. The odds of winning the game's largest jackpot remain astronomically high: 1 in 175.2 million. But since about 80 percent of the possible combinations have been purchased, ...

  • Tornado watch issued for western central Oklahoma

    Oklahoma City is within the area that's under the watch until 11 p.m. Saturday. Forecasters say the storm system will progress eastward across Oklahoma on Sunday. The threat of storms with the potential to produce tornadoes is to continue into Sunday night in the state's ...

  • Sallisaw Man To Stand Trial For 1997 Beating Death During Robbery

    SALLISAW, Oklahoma - A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to put a Sallisaw man on trial for a 1997 beating death during a robbery. During a preliminary hearing Friday, Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ordered 38-year-old Rex Richard Robbins III to be tried on a first-degree murder charge. He is accused in the death of 28-year-old Mitchell Dayne ...

  • Oklahoma Teen Injured In Crash After 17-Mile Pursuit

    A trooper tried to pull Parks' 2003 Dodge pickup over on a county road just after midnight Saturday after the teen went outside his lane while making a turn. The "driver attempted to elude for 17.6 miles before losing control and striking a utility pole," the trooper said in his ...

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Quills [DVD]

Quills [DVD]

"I didn't create the world," declares the Marquis de Sade in Philip Kaufman's Quills. "I just record it." ...

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  • Report Car drives into Va. parade crowd

    The AP said it happened at about 2:30 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival. The event celebrates the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, ...

  • Forecasters Potential tornado threat for Oklahoma

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Forecasters with the National Weather Service say severe thunderstorms with possible tornadoes are to move across much of ...

  • Crash investigation may restrict train service for days

    Train service in the busy New York-to-New Haven corridor may be restricted for days as officials investigate Friday's rush-hour collision of two trains in Connecticut -- an incident that sent dozens to hospitals -- officials said ...

  • 11 sets of twins at Afton Public Schools

    AFTON, Okla. - The chance of having twins in the United States has increased over the last few decades, and people in Afton, Okla. believe the odd s are especially in their favor. This year, Afton Public Schools had 11 sets of twins across its district. What makes this number interesting is there are just under 500 students at Afton, from grads PreK to 12th grade. "It's pretty special, ...

  • Time waning for Okla. lawmakers to tackle credits

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Despite calls by several Oklahoma legislators to address hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and exemptions for businesses and industries, little has been done as another session approaches its ...

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