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• Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan leaving 32 survivors

  25-12-2024 16:13 via kfor.com
  
  An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.The plane was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those on board included five crew. A total of 29 survivors, including two children, have been hospitalized, the ministry told Russia's
  
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• OKC announces new Municipal Court Administrator Mankinta Holloway

  13-01-2025 23:16 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The City of Oklahoma City announced it has concluded a nationwide search and selected Mankinta Holloway as Oklahoma City's Municipal Court Administrator beginning March 7.Mankinta Holloway as Oklahoma City's Municipal Court Administrator beginning March 7, Image courtesy City of OKC
  City Manager Craig Freeman says Holloway has worked as the Court Administrator for the City of Birmingham, Alabama, since 2013.“Holloway has led the operations section of the municipal co
  
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• OKCPD needs help identifying woman in $2k credit card theft investigation

  13-01-2025 22:44 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Investigators with the Oklahoma City Police Department's Financial Crime Unit are asking for help in identifying a woman in a credit card investigation.Police seek to identify woman in credit card theft investigation, Image Oklahoma City Police DepartmentEnjoy this week because by the weekend Oklahoma is back in the deep freeze.Police officials say the woman (shown above) is suspected of using a stolen credit card to make over $2,000 in purchases.
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• EmployOklahoma launces job matching system

  13-01-2025 22:41 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) launched on Monday a job matching system that will help employers find candidates.EmployOklahoma.gov is the state’s new job-matching platform.Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. Image KFOR.According to OESC, the new system will be a landing spot for Oklahomans that provides a seamless transition to seeking employment, employees or workforce services.Additionally, the user experience will consist of robust tools
  
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• IRS to send $2.4B in unclaimed stimulus payments: Who is eligible?

  13-01-2025 22:25 via kfor.com
  
  (WJW) – The Internal Revenue Service announced last month that individuals who did not receive one, or more, stimulus payments they were eligible for during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic may soon see a check in the mail or a bump in their online bank accounts.According to a press release from the IRS, an estimated $2.4 billion in payments was scheduled to be sent out in December, arriving in bank accounts or mailboxes by late January 2025. The IRS will use bank account and addre
  
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• Stock market today: Gains for oil producers and drops for Big Tech leave Wall Street mixed

  13-01-2025 22:22 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes were split on Monday as gains for oil-and-gas producers helped offset drops for Nvidia and other Big Tech companies.The S&P 500 rose 0.2% after erasing an earlier fall of 0.9%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 358 points, or 0.9%, while the weakness for Big Tech stocks dragged the Nasdaq composite to a loss of 0.4%.Stocks have been under pressure the last month, and the S&P 500 is coming off its fourth losing week in the last five as trade
  
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• New rule could slash nicotine levels in tobacco products

  13-01-2025 22:12 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- The Biden administration is poised to try to lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, an eleventh-hour effort that’s been years in the making.  The move would give the White House one last chance to try to regulate tobacco, as it previously punted on finalizing a long-standing pledge to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes. The rule has not been made public, so the specific language isn’t known, but it’s expected to require tobacco companies to
  
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• Elon Musk donates Cybertrucks to provide LA community with power, Internet amidst wildfire devastation

  13-01-2025 21:58 via kfor.com
  
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  (KRON) -- A Los Angeles County community near the Eaton Fire is getting help as wildfires have ravaged through residents' homes throughout the past week.
  Altadena, a census-designated place just north of Pasadena, has experienced power outages among the many issues caused by wildfires in the area.To help with the power outage, the Altadena station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department received a donation from Tesla. Several Cybertrucks were sent to th
  
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• Trump's inauguration weekend features fireworks, MAGA rally, inaugural balls

  13-01-2025 21:57 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration weekend will start with a fireworks display outside his northern Virginia golf club and end with a trio of inaugural balls where he will speak, the committee planning the events announced Monday.The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee unveiled the schedule of events for the weekend, beginning on Saturday with fireworks and a reception at Trump's golf club in Sterling, Va.
  On the same night, Trump's picks for Cabinet positions will attend a re
  
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• Healthcare system present in multiple states files for bankruptcy protection

  13-01-2025 21:56 via kfor.com
  
  (WJET/WFXP) — Prospect Medical Holdings, a network of hospitals and affiliates across four states, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late Saturday, along with its approximately 60 subsidiaries.The Los Angeles-based company said in a press release that it plans to "realign its organizational focus outside of California." Prospect Holdings plans to sell two Rhode Island facilities, the Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence and Our Lady of Fatima Medical Center in North Providence, to non
  
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• Newsom concerned Trump will try to withhold California fire aid

  13-01-2025 21:55 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) raised concerns about the possibility of President-elect Trump withholding federal disaster aid to the state amid the ongoing wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area. “He’s done it in Utah. He’s done it in Michigan, did it in Puerto Rico. He did it to California back before I was even governor, in 2018, until he found out folks in Orange County voted for him and he decided to give them money,” Newsom said in an intervie
  
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• Patrick and Brittany Mahomes welcome third child

  13-01-2025 21:52 via kfor.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany Mahomes have had a busy bye week.Brittany gave birth to the couple’s third child, a girl named Golden Raye Mahomes, on Jan. 12, the couple announced on social media.Golden joins daughter Sterling and son Bronze, as well as the couple’s two dogs, Steel and Silver.The couple used social media to announce they were pregnant with their third child in July. In the pregn
  
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• Carrie Underwood to perform at Trump inauguration

  13-01-2025 21:52 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) – Country music star Carrie Underwood is set to take the stage on Inauguration Day, a sign that President-elect Trump's second inauguration may be drawing more high-profile talent than his first go round.Underwood is scheduled to perform "America the Beautiful" just ahead of Trump's official swearing-in next Monday, an official with Trump's transition team confirmed to The Hill. She will be accompanied by the Armed Forces Chorus the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club.Underwood's
  
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• Stock market today: Drops for Nvidia and gains for oil stocks leave Wall Street indexes mixed

  13-01-2025 21:42 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are split on Monday as drops for Nvidia and other Big Tech companies work against gains for oil-and-gas producers.The S&P 500 was virtually flat in late trading after erasing an earlier fall of 0.9%. The weakness for Big Tech stocks dragged the Nasdaq composite to a loss of 0.7%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 315 points, or 0.8%, with less than an hour remaining in trading.Stocks have been under pressure the last month, and the S&P
  
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• 'PDS' warnings were made to grab attention in tornadoes, hurricanes - and now wildfires

  13-01-2025 21:02 via kfor.com
  
  The National Weather Service's Los Angeles page screams “Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS)” in hot pink letters against a gray background.It's a rare warning aimed at seizing attention ahead of extreme wildfire risk that's predicted to start in southern California at 4 a.m. Tuesday.PDS warnings were first used to warn of tornado outbreaks in the Midwest. More than a decade ago, three meteorologists proposed expanding their use to disasters such as ice storms, floods, h
  
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• Woman accused of leaving dead baby in Houston gas station arrested in Brownsville, police say

  13-01-2025 21:01 via kfor.com
  
  BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A woman accused of leaving a dead baby in a Houston gas station restroom was arrested Tuesday in Brownsville, police said.Diana Guadalupe Zavala Lopez, 25, was arrested on a charge of tampering with evidence - human corpse by U.S. Border Patrol in Brownsville, a post by the Houston Police Department stated. Police academy administrator charged with improper relationship between educator and student
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• James Lankford to back Tulsi Gabbard as DNI despite past 702 disagreement

  13-01-2025 20:59 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said in a Sunday interview that he will support President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii).In the interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Lankford attributed his support for Gabbard to her reversal on FISA Section 702, which gives the U.S. the authority to conduct warrantless surveillance of non-U.S. citizens located abroad.“Yes, I am,” Lankford sai
  
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• Oscars push back nominations announcement amid Calif. wildfires

  13-01-2025 19:16 via kfor.com
  
  The Oscar nominations are being pushed back almost a week from their original date amid the ongoing California wildfires. Nominations will now be announced on Jan. 23, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday.“We are all devastated by the impact of the fires and the profound losses experienced by so many in our community,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said in a joint statement. “The Academy has always been a unifying
  
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• Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announces run for governor

  13-01-2025 19:15 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced he is running for governor in 2026.Drummond announced his campaign on Monday, January 13, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma."I'm not running for governor because I want a new title. I'm not running for governor as a career politician looking for another promotion. I'm not running for governor to serve special interest groups. I'm not running for governor so that I can bow down to party bosses." said Drummond. "I'm running for govern
  
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• Texas man accused of sending Caitlin Clark violent messages on X: court docs

  13-01-2025 18:44 via kfor.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) — A Texas man is accused of sending sexually violent messages from his X account to Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark and then driving to Indianapolis, court documents reveal."Been driving around your house 3x a day," he messaged her. "But don't call the law just yet."
  Michael Thomas Lewis, 55, of Denton, Texas, is charged with one count of stalking threatening sexual battery or death, a Level 5 felony. He was arrested on Sunday.According to court documents, the FBI trac
  
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• Former Disney World employee to plead guilty to hacking menus, changing allergen information: court records

  13-01-2025 18:40 via kfor.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – A former Walt Disney World employee will plead guilty to hacking menu-creation software to include profanity and alter allergy information.Federal court documents filed Friday show Michael Scheuer intends to plead guilty to charges of "knowingly transmitting a program, information, code, and command and intentionally causing damage without authorization to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft."Disney was made aware of Scheuer’s actions in July, af
  
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• Fire officials respond to house fire in NE OKC

  13-01-2025 18:35 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Fire officials are on the scene of a two-story house fire near Memorial and Westminster.Fire officials confirm, the house fire is now a defensive fire.Firefighters respond to house fire in NE OKC, Image KFORFirefighters respond to house fire in NE OKC, Image KFORFirefighters respond to house fire in NE OKC, Image KFORFirefighters respond to house fire in NE OKC, Image KFORLaw Chopper 4 is headed to the scene to report the latest developments.This story is developing
  
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• Photos: Handful of L.A. homes remain untouched amid charred neighborhoods

  13-01-2025 18:29 via kfor.com
  
  Rows of the remains of charred homes filled the Los Angeles landscape as flames engulfed entire neighborhoods.But among the crumbling walls, some homes stand untouched.The front exterior of the Walsh House featured in the television series "Beverly Hills 90210," left, stands undamaged next to a house charred by the Eaton Fire, Jan. 9, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)A home stands among residences destroyed by the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Ange
  
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• Authorities investigate vehicle theft in SW OKC

  13-01-2025 18:13 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Police are asking the public to help identify a man sought for questioning in connection to a vehicle theft investigation.According to authorities, the man (shown below) is wanted for questioning with a vehicle theft that occurred in the 1400 block of S. MacArthur.
  Police seek to identify man in vehicle theft investigation, Image courtesy Oklahoma City Police DepartmentPolice seek to identify man in vehicle theft investigation, Image courtesy Oklahoma City Police Departmen
  
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• Longtime 'General Hospital' actress Leslie Charleson dies at 79

  13-01-2025 18:01 via kfor.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – Leslie Charleson, perhaps best known for playing Dr. Monica Quartermaine on TV’s “General Hospital” for five decades, has passed away. She was 79.News of Charleson’s death was announced Sunday by Frank Valentini, one of the show’s producers. Former British child star dies in Los Angeles wildfire, mother says“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my dear friend and colleague, @lesliecharleson,” Valentini wrote on X. &ld
  
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• Stock market today: Drops for Nvidia and other Big Tech stocks weigh on Wall Street

  13-01-2025 17:46 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Drops for Nvidia and other tech stocks are weighing on Wall Street Monday and keeping it in its weekslong rut.The S&P 500 was down 0.6% in midday trading, coming off its fourth losing week in the last five. The weakness for Big Tech stocks dragged the Nasdaq composite to a loss of 1.3% as of 11:35 a.m. Eastern time, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was an outlier and up 139 points, or 0.3%.Stocks have been under pressure the last month as traders cull expectations
  
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• List: The 'overused' words banished for 2025 by a Michigan university

  13-01-2025 17:35 via kfor.com
  
  SAULT ST. MARIE, Mich. (WGN) — Every January, a small university in Michigan's Upper Peninsula identifies a slew of words that have been overused and "worn out," designating them for banishment.Continuing the tradition, Lake Superior State University recently released its 2025 list of "Banished Words," and, like others before it, this one is no disappointment.The words aren't necessarily selected by the upper echelon of the Sault St. Marie, Michigan, university. Instead, people from across
  
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• Taquitos sold at Aldi recalled after customer complains of 'dental injury': USDA

  13-01-2025 17:02 via kfor.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – Nearly 25,000 pounds of frozen taquitos sold at Aldi have been recalled after complaints that the food item contained pieces of metal, according to a notice published by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).In one case, a consumer claims to have suffered a “dental injury” after biting into a taquito, the notice said. What’s up with Aldi’s ‘trippy’ barcodes?The recall specifically concerns 20-ounce p
  
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• City of OKC reminds residents to report potholes

  13-01-2025 16:54 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The City of Oklahoma City is celebrating National Pothole Day by reminding residents to report potholes to the OKC Action Center.According to the City of OKC, National Pothole Day is on Wednesday, January 15, and the city says the faster they're aware of the pothole, the faster they can fill it. LOCAL NEWS: State poison center talks risks of over-the-counter cough and cold medications for young children“Everyone hates potholes. With more than 8,000 lane miles of road
  
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• NFL draft hopeful wanted in connection to deadly crash turns himself in

  13-01-2025 16:45 via kfor.com
  
  CHACKBAY, La. (KLFY) — A former LSU wide receiver who recently declared for the NFL draft is now being investigated in connection with a deadly Louisiana crash, authorities have confirmed.Kyren Lacy, who graduated from LSU in December, was booked on charges of negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run, and reckless operation of a vehicle on Sunday after turning himself in, Louisiana State Police said.According to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office, he was later released after posting $151,
  
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