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• Two die on Oklahoma highways May 25, 2013
  FROM STAFF REPORTSThe Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported Saturday that two people died after crashes on Oklahoma highways. Bibian Villaneuva, 26, of Oklahoma City About 12:20 a.m.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Official: Woman killed in San Antonio flooding May 25, 2013
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A woman has been killed in flooding in the San Antonio area. San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove says the 29-year-old woman was trapped in her car, got on the roof and was swept away in floodwaters.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Name of missing Kingfisher teen released May 25, 2013
  BY ADAM KEMP akemp@opubco.comKINGFISHER — The name of the missing Kingfisher teenager was released Saturday by authorities. Taylor Faine, 17, was jumping off the spillway into Uncle John Creek on Thursday evening and did not resurface, according to the Kingfisher police. Faine and friends were swimming in an area where signs prohibit swimming because of dang […]
• Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes May 25, 2013
  CANNES, France (AP) — Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre. The film, the last English-language entry competing for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, sees Swinton play Eve, a grungy but e […]
• Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize May 25, 2013
  CANNES, France (AP) — An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival. To rousing applause, director Rithy Panh collected the award at a ceremony Saturday night, expre […]
• Quick, long-term fixes in works for Wash. bridge May 25, 2013
  SEATTLE (AP) — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says the bridge collapse in Washington state is a wake-up call for the nation. Debbie Hersman says transportation officials need to study carefully the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River and learn from it. Investigators need to find out what happened in Washington and if it could […]
• Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic' May 25, 2013
  CANNES, France (AP) — Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women. The director said the pill has "changed the place of women in our times," while talking to reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Suspected rebels kill 16, wound 25 in east India May 25, 2013
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding 25 others, police said. Senior police officer M. Gupta said the attack occurred in the Sukma area, about 215 miles (345 […]
• Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers May 25, 2013
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past. They say four soldiers were also injured in the Saturday attack, which took place in the city of Shar in the southeastern Hadramawt province and was likely carried […]
• Cold start to 1st summer after Sandy at NJ shore May 25, 2013
  MANASQUAN, N.J. (AP) — The first summer season after Superstorm Sandy is underway at the Jersey shore, parts of which were devastated by the October storm. Cold, wet weather is expected to keep at least some potential vacationers away this weekend, but others are returning to their favorite shore spots regardless of the temperature. Rainy weather and below-n […]