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• Slain man found on side of Choctaw road under investigation February 14, 2012
  BY JULIANA KEEPING jkeeping@opubco.comThe OSBI and Choctaw police are investigating the homicide of a man whose body was found on the side of a road Tuesday morning.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Texas man charged in torture case goes on trial February 14, 2012
  WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say a North Texas woman was tortured on a deer-skinning device and chained to a bed before authorities found her and arrested her former neighbor. Opening statements began Tuesday in Jeffrey Allan Maxwell's trial.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Colombian priests hire hitmen in alleged suicide February 14, 2012
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's prosecutors office says two Catholic priests hired hitmen to kill the priests themselves when at least one of them was diagnosed with AIDS. Maritza Gonzalez with the prosecutor's office said Tuesday that priests Rafael Reatiga and Richard Piffano paid 15 million pesos or about $8,500 for the hit.Read more on NewsO […]
• Drug maker for 'El Chapo' seized in Mexico February 14, 2012
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say they've arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Creditors spell out Greece austerity measures February 14, 2012
  BERLIN (AP) — Greece's international creditors have spelled out the spending cuts and reforms that Athens has to introduce before it can receive vital bailout cash, according to a draft document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. The measures — which range from getting tougher with tax evaders to cutting prescription drug budgets — reflect the […]
• Snow, ice coat the Balkans with unworldly beauty February 14, 2012
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Snow as deep as 15 feet (4.5 meters) isolated areas in Romania, Moldova and Albania on Tuesday and turned a power plant in Kosovo into a park of dazzling ice sculptures. In a winter harsher than many can remember, energy workers struggled mightily Tuesday to break the ice that has encapsulated Kosovo's main power station in Obi […]
• Oklahoma Department of Public Safety official resigns post February 14, 2012
  By ZIVA BRANSTETTER and BARBARA HOBEROCK - Tulsa WorldA Department of Public Safety executive resigned Monday, one day after a Tulsa World story detailed his firing from the Department of Corrections for excessive force and civil rights violations.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• 1st same-sex couple weds at Empire State Building February 14, 2012
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two women who met at the University of Alaska have become the first same-sex couple to be married at the Empire State Building. Stephanie Figarelle (fig-uh-REHL'-ee) and Lela (LEE'-luh) McArthur exchanged rings Tuesday and promised to love each other for the rest of their lives. The couple won an online contest.Read more on NewsOK.c […]
• Sotheby's finds hidden signature on Basquiat work February 14, 2012
  LONDON (AP) — Sotheby's says it has discovered that grafitti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat secretly signed one of his paintings in invisible ink. The auction house is selling "Orange Sports Figure," estimated to be worth between 3 million pounds and 4 million pounds ($4.7 million and $6.3 million). Basquiat, who became a New York art star, signe […]
• Bulgaria could suspend vote on trade agreement February 14, 2012
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria could join Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland in delaying its decision on whether to sign an international copyright treaty that some Internet users say could lead to online censorship. Bulgarian Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said Tuesday he will ask his government to suspend ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trad […]