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• Why do you need glasses to prevent permanent eye damage during eclipse?

  13-10-2023 19:42 via kfor.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) — We're less than a day away from the first of two solar eclipses over the next few months.On Oct. 14, an annular eclipse will briefly dim the skies over sections of the western U.S. and Central and South America. Viewing the eclipse safely will require some prep on your part, however."(I see) a few patients a year that have either accidentally looked at the sun or were trying to view an eclipse," said Dr. Andrew Neighbors, a Seattle-based optometrist.According to Neighbors,
  
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• Canoo files for bankruptcy, will cease operations immediately

  18-01-2025 04:49 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Canoo announced on Friday the company has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and will immediately cease operations.The company's filing for bankruptcy comes weeks after they furloughed workers and halted operations at facilities in Oklahoma.“All we want to do is to go work for a start-up company, help make it successful, and then (we) turn around and get dumped on,” said one worker to News 4 after receiving the furlough letter in October 2024. LOCAL NEWS: &ls
  
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• Louisiana governor relocating homeless people ahead of Super Bowl

  18-01-2025 03:49 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Louisiana authorities are clearing homeless encampments around the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans ahead of next month's Super Bowl.Gov. Jeff Landry (R) announced the sweep in an executive order Monday, framing the “strategy on homelessness” as a way to secure areas in the state ahead of the big event.The news comes after the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, when a man drove a pickup truck down busy Bourbon Street, killing 14 people.In his announcement, Land
  
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• Kevin O'Leary says he's offering $20B cash for TikTok

  18-01-2025 03:42 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) — Investor Kevin O’Leary, widely known as a star from “Shark Tank,” said he offered TikTok’s owners $20 billion in cash to buy the platform during a Friday appearance on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”A bipartisan bill, which President Biden signed, called TikTok a threat to national security and forces ByteDance, the platform's Chinese parent company, to divest from the platform or sell it in order for Ti
  
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• OHP ups emphasis on catching distracted drivers

  18-01-2025 01:40 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — As troopers hit the highway this month, distracted drivers beware because the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is putting a special emphasis on catching them for the rest of January.It’s a mobilization dedicated to a trooper that was killed by a distracted driver 10 years ago."It's got to stop,” said Lt. Chris Arnell with the OHP. “So please make a strong effort to put the phone down and constantly decide not to drive distracted."The mobilization honor
  
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• Dissenting voices at OSDE's proposed rules hearing

  18-01-2025 01:40 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Many dissenting voices spoke out Friday during a public hearing regarding the proposed rules that are coming from the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE)."I'm calling on Walters to immediately resign from office," said Representative Arturo Alonso-Sandoval (D-Oklahoma City). "He is overwhelmingly wrong constitutionally."The representative was one of many who specifically went to speak out against the proposed rule that would essentially require students to
  
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• OKC Police release bodycam video of deadly shooting that left teen dead

  18-01-2025 01:24 via kfor.com
  
  Warning: The video shows violent images and may be disturbing.
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma City Police have released bodycam footage of a deadly shootout with a suspect that left a teenager dead.According to the Oklahoma City Police Department, officers responded to a domestic disturbance in the 6600 block of Bayberry Dr. in December 2024.In the video, you see the officers arrive on the scene and enter the home.
  Upon arrival, the suspect, 43-year-old Jerry Yang, began shooting at offic
  
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• 'Raging illness, highly spreadable': Ponca City moves to remote learning for two schools

  18-01-2025 01:17 via kfor.com
  
  PONCA CITY, Okla (KFOR) — Winter viruses are going around full-force in some Oklahoma communities.In Ponca City, two of its schools, Ponca City East Middle School and Ponca City High Schoolmoved to remote learning due to widespread illness.On Thursday, over a third of the high school's students were out sick."This is a raging illness that is highly spreadable," said Superintendent Adam Leaming, Ponca City Public Schools.One parent says all three of her kids are home sick."Fever, coughing,
  
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• Local BBQ restaurant accused of keeping $66K from its own employees

  18-01-2025 00:31 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A popular barbecue restaurant in Oklahoma City is accused of keeping thousands of dollars from its own employees.The United States Department of Labor found multiple violations against the owner of Edge Craft BBQ in Oklahoma City.The owner of Edge Craft BBQ has to pay $66,000 in back wages for 13 employees after theDepartment of Labor said he would keep their tips."What was happening in this situation was the employer was keeping all of their tips for himself and was
  
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• Unknown outage leaving Oklahomans with frozen payments, transactions and direct deposits

  18-01-2025 00:25 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Bank Of Oklahoma customers say they've been left in the dark for days after a major outage impacted one of BOK's service providers in Little Rock, Arkansas.Steve Carter is a customer with BOK, saying he called Wednesday after noticing his debit card declining at a gas station.Bank Of Oklahoma courtesy KFOR"I immediately called the Express My 800 number and only to find out that they were having some kind of a technical issue, that there was no one to talk to. They ju
  
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• Busta Rhymes turns himself in after fight with man in NYC, police say

  17-01-2025 23:57 via kfor.com
  
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Rapper Busta Rhymes turned himself in at a Brooklyn police precinct on Tuesday after being accused of assault, police said. Trevor Tanhiem Smith, Jr., 52, also known as Busta Rhymes, is accused of punching a man in the face during a fight last week, police said. The assault was reported to police on Jan. 10, according to the NYPD.The victim was transported to Woodhull Hospital for treatment. He is expected to recover, authorities said. Busta Rhymes was ch
  
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• Manslaughter charge dropped in deadly crash, teen killed

  17-01-2025 23:50 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A felony charge was dismissed for a woman who was involved in a crash that killed a Westmoore High School student in 2022.17-year-old Kolby Dutton was riding his motorcycle near SW 104th and Western when an SUV pulled out of a private driveway and hit Dutton. He died at the scene.
  The scene of a motorcycle crash in which a Westmoore High School student died.Officials say the driver, Judy Todd, was arrested and booked into the Cleveland County Jail on complaints of dr
  
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• Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters hit with a new ethics probe

  17-01-2025 22:35 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — After reporting Thursday night of State Superintendent Ryan Walters being investigated by the Ethics Commission for allegedly violating campaign finance rules, a second investigation is underway for supporting President-elect Donald Trump on social media in the presidential election.According to documents obtained by News 4, the Ethics Commission authorized a formal investigation after determining "reasonable cause to believe that violations of one or more" provision
  
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• Israel expected to approve ceasefire deal

  17-01-2025 22:18 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Americans held hostage by the terror group Hamas for the past 15 months could soon finally walk free.Israel's government is expected to give final approval Friday of a ceasefire deal with Hamas, which could start as soon as Sunday and signal the release of at least two American hostages. "The ceasefire marks a hopeful turning point for Israel, for the Palestinian people and particularly, for the families of the hostages who have waited so long in agony," said U.S. Sen
  
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• Stock market today: Wall Street finishes its best week since Trump's election with a rally

  17-01-2025 22:15 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes closed their best week in two months with a flourish on Friday.
  The S&P 500 climbed 1% to clinch its first winning week in the last three. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 334 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 1.5%.SLB helped lead the market after the provider of services to oilfields delivered bigger profit and revenue for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it
  
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• Trump swearing-in ceremony moved indoors

  17-01-2025 22:05 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Thanks to frigid low temperatures incoming president Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony is moving indoors.People all across the country have traveled to Washington, D.C., to see President-elect Trump's inauguration.Preparations have been underway for weeks.The stage was all set, but now an arctic blast sweeping the nation is forcing President-elect Trump's swearing in indoors.Donald Eymann in town from Colorado plans to make the best of the news."I think it's just really
  
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• Biden affirms Equal Rights Amendment is part of Constitution

  17-01-2025 20:41 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- President Joe Biden on Friday asserted that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing it had met the criteria to be added as the 28th amendment.Biden in a statement said that the ERA "is the law of the land" because it was passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress and three-quarters of the states have ratified it. But he stopped short of instructing the archivist to add the amendment to the Constitut
  
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• Georgia appeals court sides with Trump in affirming dismissal of 6 state charges

  17-01-2025 20:38 via kfor.com
  
  A Georgia appeals court on Friday affirmed the dismissal of six counts in the state's 2020 election interference against President-elect Trump and his allies, upholding a trial judge's decision that the charges must be thrown out due to a lack of detail. "We find that the indictment fails to include enough detail to sufficiently apprise the defendants of what they must be prepared to meet so that they can intelligently prepare their defenses," Judge E. Trenton Brown III wrote for the three-
  
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• Wisdom of a California grandmother, 90, goes viral amid Eaton Fire tragedy

  17-01-2025 20:36 via kfor.com
  
  (KTLA) -- A nearly 90-year-old California woman who lost her home to the Eaton Fire is going viral for pragmatism and positivity in the face of so much adversity.  Ruth Judkins, an Altadena mother and grandmother, lived in her home for 48 years. While she has seen many wildfires in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, she said nothing really prepared her for the firestorm that kicked off on Jan. 7.  “We were a street of 12 houses,” Judkins told Nexstar's KTLA. &ldquo
  
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• Ramaswamy plans run for Ohio governor

  17-01-2025 20:28 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) – Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of President-elect Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), plans to run for governor of Ohio, two sources confirmed to The Hill on Friday.The Ohio governor’s mansion will be up for grabs in 2026, as sitting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is term-limited. One of the sources said Ramaswamy's plan was to "get accomplishments at DOGE" and then announce his gubernatorial bid. Official portraits of Donald Trump, JD Vance are releas
  
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• Oklahoma Communities awarded $18.3 million in Homelessness Assistance

  17-01-2025 20:25 via kfor.com
  
  WASHINGTON, DC (KFOR) - The Biden- Harris Administration announced on Friday the largest amount of annual federal funding provided through HUD"s Continuum of Care program.The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says, $3.6 billion in Continuum of Care (CoC) program awards for nearly 7,000 projects that assist people experiencing homelessness. Oklahoma has received $18,332,522 in funding. HUD noted in extending application deadlines that this will be the first reimbursement of t
  
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• New Jersey teacher charged with allegedly sexually assaulting former student, having his child

  17-01-2025 20:04 via kfor.com
  
  (WPHL) -- A New Jersey teacher is facing charges after police said she is accused of sexually abusing one of her students and having a child with him.Laura Caron, 34, of Cape May Court House, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.According to the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, Caron allegedly sexually assaulted her former student between 2016 and 2020 while the victim was living in her home and reportedly h
  
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• SpaceX catches its Starship rocket back at the launch pad, but the spacecraft is destroyed

  17-01-2025 19:40 via kfor.com
  
  Video courtesy of SpaceX.BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, catching the booster back at the pad but losing contact with the ascending spacecraft as engines went out.The spacecraft was supposed to soar across the Gulf of Mexico on a near loop around the world similar to previous test flights. SpaceX had packed it with 10 dummy satellites for practice at releasing them. It was the first flight of th
  
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• Will spring come early? NOAA releases weather predictions for every state

  17-01-2025 19:39 via kfor.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.A new long-range forecast, released Thursday, shows broad weather predictions for February, March, and April nationwide. For about half of the country, it appears spring-like weather is set to arrive early.Oklahoma Weather Radar
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• Joan Plowright, Tony Award-winning British actor and widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

  17-01-2025 19:14 via kfor.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England, surrounded by her loved ones.“She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made h
  
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• College students accused of online 'catch a predator' plot appear in court

  17-01-2025 19:12 via kfor.com
  
  WORCESTER, Mass. (WWLP) – Six students at Assumption University in Massachusetts appeared in court Thursday to face charges in a connection with an alleged plot to lure a man to their campus and then seize him as part of a “catch a predator” trend on social media.The students were arraigned on conspiracy and kidnapping charges, after allegedly ambushing the man upon arrival and trying to hold him against his will. The victim, a 22-year-old active-duty military service member, l
  
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• OK Humane showcases adoptable pets available starting Jan. 17

  17-01-2025 18:56 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - OK Humane Society is seeking placement for the latest selected group of adorable pets in Oklahoma!If you are looking for a friendly addition to your home OK Humane says,to check out the latest adoptable furry friends ready to go with tons of tail wags.Foster friends are also needed, if you find an animal you would like to foster, please email [email protected]. OK Humane has options for foster homes with staff assisting to help find the right type of foster for you. Okla
  
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• Stock market today: Wall Street rallies toward its best week since Trump's election

  17-01-2025 17:49 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are closing their best week in two months with a flourish on Friday.
  The S&P 500 was 1.2% higher in midday trading and on track for its first winning week in the last three. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 447 points, or 1%, as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.7% higher.SLB helped lead the market after the provider of services to oilfields delivered bigger profit and revenue for the end of 2024 than analysts expected.
  
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• 'Doesn’t look real': SpaceX Starship explosion sends debris streaking across sky, video shows

  17-01-2025 17:32 via kfor.com
  
  BOCA CHICA, Texas (KVEO/NEXSTAR) — SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, catching the booster back at the pad but losing contact with the ascending spacecraft as engines went out.Elon Musk’s company said Starship ultimately broke apart, calling it a “rapid unscheduled disassembly." The spacecraft's six engines appeared to shut down one by one during ascent, with contact lost just 8 1/2 minutes into the flight. Jeff Bezo
  
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• Oklahoma City Zoo welcomes rescued bobcat

  17-01-2025 16:49 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The Oklahoma City Zoo has welcomed a rescued bobcat to its newly renovated Cat Forest habitat.According to the Zoo, Pando, a 7-month-old female bobcat, arrived from Coalinga, California, after being found as a kitten by two California-based rescues, Pacific Wildlife Care in Morro Bay and Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue in Petaluma. LOCAL NEWS: Oklahoma City Zoo euthanizes its oldest Asian elephantPando the bobcat. Image courtesy OKC Zoo.Pando the bobcat. Image courtesy OKC Z
  
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