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• Keystone XL pipeline shuns high-tech oil spill detectors June 18, 2013
  TransCanada Corp., which says Keystone XL will be the safest pipeline ever built, isn’t planning to use infrared sensors or fiber-optic cables to detect spills along the system’s 2,000-mile path to Texas refineries from fields in Alberta, BusinessWeek reports. Pipeline companies have been slow to adopt new leak detection technology, including infrared equipm […]
• Booker encounters bumps on path to US Senate seat June 18, 2013
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker is the favorite to win a fast-paced race for U.S. Senate set off by the death of Sen.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Death penalty won't be sought in rape and murder of 84-year-old Tulsa woman June 18, 2013
  By BILL BRAUN - Tulsa WorldTulsa County prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty for a Tulsan who is accused of raping and murdering an elderly woman. At an arraignment Monday, Assistant District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said the District Attorney's Office decided not to pursue a death sentence for Tyrone Dale David Woodfork. A major factor in tha […]
• NTSB: Train engineer's vision problems led to deadly Oklahoma wreck June 18, 2013
  BY CHRIS CASTEEL CCASTEEL@opubco.comWASHINGTON — The head-on collision of two freight trains in the Oklahoma Panhandle last summer likely occurred because one train engineer had severe vision problems and couldn't read signals, National Transportation Safety Board staff said Tuesday. Three crew members were killed in the crash. The engineer operating th […]
• Hungary indicts Nazi-era suspect for war crimes June 18, 2013
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II. They said Laszlo Csatary was the chief of an internment camp for 12,000 Jews at a brick factory in Kosice — a Slovak city then part of Hungary — in May 1944, and that […]
• G-8 and beyond: The world according to Obama June 18, 2013
  ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Laden with foreign challenges, President Barack Obama is welcoming Iran's election results, taking the temperature of China's new leader and acknowledging that nations routinely spy on each other, all the while navigating difficult terrain with allies and Russia over Syria. For Obama, who would much rather be in […]
• Lawyer for Gadhafi son wants him handed to ICC June 18, 2013
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi accused Libyan authorities on Tuesday of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Seif al-Islam Gadhafi on trial in August. In an urgent filing to the Hague-based court, British lawyer John Jones asked appeals ju […]
• House Intel leaders defend surveillance programs June 18, 2013
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee are vigorously defending the government's sweeping electronic surveillance programs. Republican Rep.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Markets edge higher as Fed meeting starts June 18, 2013
  LONDON (AP) — Stock markets edged higher Tuesday as a two-day policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve got under way — a meeting that could have a huge influence on how investors see the future path of the country's monetary policy. For weeks now, markets have been gripped with uncertainty over whether the Fed will start reducing the amount of financi […]
• Colorado woman killed by smoke bomb while filming reality TV show June 18, 2013
  A special effect designed to close a television show ended in tragedy at an El Paso County shooting range, the businesses owner said Friday and the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. Deputies haven't named the woman who died, but the proprietor of Dragonman's, Melvin Bernstein identified the victim as his wife, 51-year-old Terry Flanell. Bernstein s […]