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• 'Definitely a catastrophic event': Fire destroys high school gym, damages classrooms

  24-03-2025 23:43 via kfor.com
  
  GEARY, Okla. (KFOR) — Classes for students in Geary were cancelled after the gym, along with several classrooms caught fire on Saturday night.School superintendent Sean Buchanan said the fire was a complete disaster that sent shockwaves through the entire town."It's definitely a catastrophic event for sure," said Buchanan.The massive destroyed a big part of Geary school history on Saturday night."We host the nation's oldest wrestling tournament here," said Buchanan. "The memories are just.
  
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• Emergency crews respond to rollover accident on I-240

  03-04-2025 14:18 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Emergency crews responded to rollover accident on I-240 Thursday morning.Officials say the accident happened on I-240 near Santa Fe Ave.
  This is being reported as an injury accident, but the severity of those injuries is unknown.Emergency crews are on scene working to clear the roadway. Traffic may be affected in that area.No more information is available.
  
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• One injured in motorcycle accident on I-240

  03-04-2025 14:06 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - One person was taken to the hospital after a motorcycle crash late Wednesday night.According to the Oklahoma City Police Department, the crash happened on I-240 near Rockwell Ave. around midnight.The driver was taken to a nearby hospital. Their condition is unknown at this time.The roadway was briefly shut down due to the crash but has since reopened.
  
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• Here's another reason get shingles vaccine: It may fight dementia

  03-04-2025 13:44 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains.A new study found that shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is part of growing understanding about how many factors influence brain health as we age – and what we can do about i
  
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• OSDE facing lawsuit seeking records related to appointment of controversial ‘Libs of TikTok’ influencer

  03-04-2025 13:15 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A nonprofit group is suing Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), and controversial social media influencer Chaya Raichik, accusing them of violating Oklahoma’s Open Records Act and Open Meeting Act.The Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice filed the lawsuit in Oklahoma County on Tuesday after the center says OSDE ignored its requests for public records related to Raichik’s appointment to an
  
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• Tesla sales plunge to lowest level since 2022 amid Trump backlash

  03-04-2025 02:22 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) - Tesla sales dropped by nearly 13 percent in the first three months of the year amid a broader backlash against CEO Elon Musk and his leadership of President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).Tesla reported 336,000 vehicle deliveries in the January to March quarter, a notable drop from sales of 387,000 vehicles in the same period a year ago.The number marks its worst showing since 2022 and is far lower than analysts' predictions of about 408,000 deliveries.Tesla's st
  
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• SEE IT: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams reunites with dogs after 9-month stay in space

  03-04-2025 02:21 via kfor.com
  
  (NewsNation) — NASA astronaut Sunita Williams released a video of her reunion with her two dogs after spending nine months onboard the International Space Station.Williams posted the clip Sunday on X with the caption, “Best homecoming ever!”The video, which has received more than 330,000 views, shows Williams greeting her happy dogs. One gets so excited that it picks up a stick and trots around the front yard, wagging its tail.Williams and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, along wi
  
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• 'One in a generation': Deadly floods, tornadoes could hit Midwest and South, forecasters warn

  03-04-2025 02:20 via kfor.com
  
  (AP) – Potentially deadly flash flooding, high-magnitude tornadoes and baseball-sized hail could hit parts of the Midwest and South on Wednesday as severe thunderstorms blowing eastward become supercharged, forecasters warned.Dozens of tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi as the swath of storms hit those and other states Wednesday evening. Forecasters expected the intense period of violent weather, with daytime heatin
  
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• A jittery Wall Street rides the tariff roller coaster and appears headed for big losses on Thursday

  03-04-2025 02:20 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks whipped through another dizzying day of trading, but the mood on Wall Street turned sour after President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs against nearly all U.S. trading partners, an action that could drastically remake the global economy.
  The S&P 500 rose 0.7% in regular trading Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 235 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.9%. But futures trading showed all three indexes heading for shar
  
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• Gov. Stitt wants to get rid of forestry department after deadly fires

  03-04-2025 01:31 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - On Wednesday, Governor Stitt said that the state should get rid of the Department of Forestry, weeks after several deadly fires."Why do we even have a department of forestry? Let's get rid of the whole thing. That would save $75 million dollars for the taxpayers," said Gov. Stitt.At Wednesday's presser, the governor was asked what evidence he had that the now-former State Forester, Mark Goeller, either didn't use or delayed firefighting resources.This comes a week after he
  
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• Man accused of raping Lyft driver in Del City will go to jury trial

  03-04-2025 01:30 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The man accused of raping a metro Lyft driver in Del City will have his trial heard before a jury.Andre Hunter made an appearance before Judge Heather Coyle on Wednesday at the Oklahoma County Courthouse. He was expected to enter a blind plea but in the final hours changed his mind.
  Hunter's attorney told the judge he wanted the case to go to a jury trial, which would prolong the case until August 25.The victim was surrounded by loved ones and was expected to make a
  
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• Driver on the run after slamming into Plaza District bar

  03-04-2025 01:00 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The owners of Plaza District bar 'Good For A Few' were greeted by shattered glass and debris lying everywhere Tuesday morning."It was quite a shock to wake up to," said Co-owner Jordan Harris.On security footage shared with News 4 from the Plaza District, a car is seen driving into the front of the local bar at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday.Co-owner Tyler Maune said they weren't notified of the incident until 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Final damage estimates for March fires in
  
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• Trump admin freezes Title X funding to Planned Parenthood in Oklahoma

  03-04-2025 00:23 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Trump administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars from federal family planning funding.Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) was informed on Monday that the Trump administration has put Title X funds to Planned Parenthood health centers in Missouri and Oklahoma on hold."It's really unfortunate that in this moment, politics is overshadowing the critical care that we offer," said Emily Wales, president and CEO of PPGP.PPGP says the decision could hav
  
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• Gmail planning end-to-end encrypted emails

  03-04-2025 00:11 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Google announced Tuesday that Gmail users will soon be able to send and receive encrypted emails without a third-party provider.The new process will allow Gmail users to send end-to-end encrypted messages to "any user on any email inbox with just a few clicks," Google wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
  A beta version of the feature was launched on Tuesday, allowing Gmail users within the same organization to send the encrypted emails. Over the next few weeks, users will be able to send
  
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• Rand Paul: 'Fallacy' to think tariffs will help country

  03-04-2025 00:09 via kfor.com
  
  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that it is a “fallacy” to think tariffs will help the country's economy as President Trump gears up to impose massive reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
  Paul, who has spoken out against the plan previously, joined The Hill’s “Rising” on Wednesday, where he discussed his disagreement with tariffs, calling them “a tax.”“On tariffs, I think it’s just economically — it’s a fallacy to thi
  
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• Scientists fear impact of National Weather Service cuts

  03-04-2025 00:07 via kfor.com
  
  TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — Sunday service at Crossroads Global Methodist Church often starts in song, but on the morning of November 17, 2013, it began with tornado sirens alerting congregants of an approaching storm."Everybody's phones were going off," executive director Donna Cimino recalled. "We immediately started moving people to our storm shelters."The warning issued by the National Weather Service a full 16 minutes ahead of the tornado's arrival no doubt saved lives as 190 mph wi
  
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• Charges dismissed against Illinois man accused of assault by Rep. Nancy Mace

  03-04-2025 00:06 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WCBD) – Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss charges Tuesday against a man U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused of assaulting her during an event at the Capitol last year. Mace accused James McIntyre of Illinois, a national foster care advocate, of accosting her during a Dec. 10 reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.She claimed the assault came in response to her efforts to bar transgender women from using wo
  
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• A celebration of the state’s aerospace industry as potential tariff impacts loom

  02-04-2025 23:48 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — You may not know it, but aerospace is Oklahoma’s second largest industry and it’s the fastest growing. A crowd gathered at the Oklahoma State Capitol on Wednesday to celebrate that."It's a time of great opportunity and bring everyone together right now,” Brig. Gen. Chris Eason with the Oklahoma Air National Guard said."There's a very large history, long standing,” Clay Pearce, an engineering site leader with Spirit Aerosystems, said. “So
  
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• Final damage estimates for March fires in Oklahoma County

  02-04-2025 23:30 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Between the November tornadoes and March wildfires, hundreds of homes and businesses in Oklahoma County were damaged or destroyed. Fortunately, property taxes are being reduced to provide some financial help for Oklahomans impacted by the recent natural disasters."I don't remember winds that strong," said Larry Stein, the Oklahoma County Assessor.
  Stein said he'll never forget the wildfires that burned through Oklahoma on March 14."Where it looked like the gates of h
  
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• Stagflation 'whiffs' are back — but what does it mean?

  02-04-2025 23:29 via kfor.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) — Economists last hinted that stagflation may be on the horizon for Americans in 2022 amid high inflation and a weaker job market, but it never arrived. Now, stagflation has found its way back into conversations amid the ongoing trade war and a shaky Wall Street. Richard Clarida, former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman turned global economic advisor at Pacific Investment Management Co. and Columbia University professor, recently told Bloomberg there is “already at least a
  
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• USPS changes begin Tuesday: How could your mail be affected

  02-04-2025 23:03 via kfor.com
  
  CHICOPEE, Mass. (NEXSTAR/WWLP) - New changes at the United States Postal Service (USPS) are set to begin on Tuesday, the first of two rollouts.The cost-saving measures aim to save $36 billion in the next decade, however, the Postal Service says they'll be able to preserve delivery times and give people more information on when they can expect their packages. The measures come after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced in a letter in March that he had reached an agreement with Elon Musk'
  
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• Musk could be headed for a Washington exit after turbulent times at DOGE

  02-04-2025 23:02 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — DOGE’s days appear to be numbered.Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that “at some point, he’s going to be going back” to running his companies. As far as the Department of Government Efficiency, Trump said, “It will end.”All of that talk was before Musk faced a setback Tuesday in Wisconsin, where voters rejected his choi
  
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• Trump administration admits it wrongly deported man to prison in El Salvador

  02-04-2025 23:00 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) - The Trump administration acknowledged late Monday that it had mistakenly deported a Salvadoran man protected from removal, sending him to a facility in El Salvador where they argue they are unable to secure his return.The filing came in a case brought by the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after his wife recognized him in footage released of a group of migrants the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison.“Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal
  
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• Trump restoring millions in family planning funds for two states

  02-04-2025 22:59 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) — The Trump administration is restoring millions of dollars in Title X funds to Oklahoma and Tennessee after the Biden administration chose to withhold those funds because both states failed to comply with program rules.  The news was first reported by Politico, but the Oklahoma State Department of Health confirmed to The Hill that the Trump administration has awarded it $1.96 million under the Title X family planning program. The total award amount could be more though, ac
  
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• HHS fires entire staff of program that helps low-income people afford heat and air conditioning

  02-04-2025 22:57 via kfor.com
  
  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired all of the workers in its program that seeks to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills. Everyone who had been working on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program was let go on Tuesday, according to now-former employee Andrew Germain.“Every single federal staff member that worked on LIHEAP was let go, so there are no federal staff members left to work on the program,” Germain told The Hill.He said that pri
  
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• Potential Trump tariff plan could cost households thousands: new analysis

  02-04-2025 22:46 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) — President Donald Trump's potential plan to impose a 20 percent broad tariff on all imports could put a squeeze on households, especially those on the lower end of the income spectrum, an analysis from The Budget Lab at Yale found.In the analysis released by the policy research center this week, the group found that a 20 percent tariff on all imports would bring the average effective U.S. tariff rate to the highest since 1872 when stacked together with the other tarif
  
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• Trump announces sweeping 'reciprocal' tariffs

  02-04-2025 22:45 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States, threatening to upend much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader trade wars.Trump held up a chart while speaking at the White House, showing the United States would charge a 34% tax on imports from China, a 20% tax on imports from the European Union, 25% on South K
  
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• Stock market today: Wall Street rises in another jittery day ahead of Trump's tariff announcement

  02-04-2025 22:14 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks whipped through another dizzying day Wednesday in the final hours before President Donald Trump’sunveiling of the tariffs promised as part of his “ Liberation Day,” which could drastically remake the global economy.
  The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, but only after careening between an earlier loss of 1.1% and a later gain of 1.1%. It’s had a pattern this weekof opening with sharp drops only to finish the day higher.The Dow Jones Industrial Avera
  
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• Stock market today: Wall Street swings higher ahead of Trump's tariff announcement

  02-04-2025 22:02 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks swung higher ahead of President Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs he has promised as part of his “Liberation Day.” The S&P 500 rose 0.7% Wednesday after eliminating an early loss of 1.1%. It’s had a pattern this week of opening with sharp drops only to finish the day higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.9%. Tesla swung from a sharp loss in the morning to a gain to help pull the
  
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• OU's Jeremiah Fears entering NBA Draft

  02-04-2025 21:48 via kfor.com
  
  Norman, OK - Oklahoma All-SEC freshman Jeremiah Fears is forgoing the rest of his college eligibility and entering the NBA Draft, he tells ESPN.In Fears' lone season at OU he started 31 of 34 games averaging 17 points, four rebounds, four assists on 43 percent shooting from the field. He also played 30 minutes a contest. Fears led the Sooners to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2021.ESPN considers Fears the 7th ranked prospect in the upcoming NBA Draft.
  Initially Fears was a class of
  
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