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3/10/2010
It was a symbolic gesture, as Oklahoma City Council members agreed to take pay cuts if and when pay cuts or layoffs occur. Councilman Pat Ryan made the resolution, but Councilman Skip Kelly called it a gesture that means nothing to the quality of life and even called it a matter of playing games. The pay cuts would be strictly voluntary and would amount to 50 dollars a month for council members and 100 dollars for the mayor.
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3/10/2010
September 13th is the new trial date for Joshua Durcho. He's accused of strangling his girlfriend Summer Rust and her three children in their El Reno apartment last year. Durcho stacked the bodies of the children in the bathtub. He faces the death penalty if convicted.
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3/10/2010
An Oklahoma County jailer is on the wrong side of the bars this morning. Okello Adenya reportedly admitted to selling jail inmates tobacco and marijuana. Adenya is in the county jail on 3 felony charges.
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3/10/2010
Oklahoma City Council approving a resolution to have City Manager Jim Couch negotiate a deal with Grand Prix LLC to bring American Lemans Series racing to Bricktown. If all goes well, the city could host the two-mile course by next summer.
City Leaders haven't determined how much the Grand Prix would cost the city, but organizers are certain the race would generate as much as 25 million dollars.
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3/10/2010
A metro mother set on fire is in critical condition this morning. 34-year-old George Rodriguez burned the mother of his three children behind her Southeast Oklahoma City home on SE 47th. Oklahoma City Police say Rodriguez broke into the home, confronted Laura Rodriguez and took her out back. The next moments were terrorifying for Laura and her children. Rodriguez even tried to burn the home as his three young daughters sat inside. Police found him sitting in front of the home and arrested him on several charges. Laura is in critical condition at a local hospital with third degree burns over 30 percent of her body.
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3/10/2010
Former state lawmakers looking to become lobbyists would have to wait 2 years under a bill approved by the state Senate. Senator Debbe Leftwich has worked six years to gain passage of her proposal.
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3/10/2010
The University of Oklahoma is offering to donate land near the state medical examiners office in order for that facility to be expanded instead of moved. State Representative Al McCaffrey says OU President David Boren is making the offer to keep the ME's office in it's current location. The state would have to pass a bond issue to help pay for the expansion. Currently, state lawmakers are debating whether or not to move the ME's office to Edmond in order to provide more room for employees to do their work.
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3/10/2010
Officials said they have detected high nitrate levels in the water in parts of Logan and Kingfisher County. Officials said nitrate in drinking water can be dangerous to babies and should not be given to infants under 6-months-old or used to make infant formula.
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3/9/2010
(Oklahoma City, OK) -- Manpower Employment Outlook Survey says employers are trending to the hire side for the second quarter beginning next month. Manpower says 16-percent of the employers surveyed plan to add more staff. Five percent are eyeing reductions. So Manpower's net employment outlook is eleven percent, far higher than the second quarter last year. Most categories are expected to show gains with the exceptions being durable goods manufacturing and some services.
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3/9/2010
(Oklahoma City, OK) -- There's been some on and off concerns about websites offering a drug high simply by downloading tunes or tones that induce a drug high. At the State Narcotics Bureau, spokesman Mark Woodward says they're more concerned about ads for legal but dangerous drugs that can be ordered on line. Woodward says they're advising parents to monitor their kids' activities on the Internet. The bureau is also monitoring legislation that addresses loopholes in existing drug law.
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