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Headlines: Fallin's Budget Plan, Cigarette Tax & Thunder Playoffs

Headlines for Thursday, April 14, 2016:

  • Governor Fallin releases a plan to fix the state’s budget hole. (Journal Record)
     
  • Educators from around the state file paperwork to run for office. (KFOR)

  • The future of Oklahoma City’s school superintendent is coming up in a meeting tonight. (NewsOK)

  • Despite a budget crisis, the Oklahoma City School Board takes a $25,000 trip to Boston. (KFOR)

  • Hospital and nursing home administrators want tobacco tax increase to stave off a proposed 25% cut to Medicaid. (Tulsa World)

  • The City of Yukon plans staff cuts to deal with a budget crisis. (NewsOK)

  • Three Tulsa city counselors retain their seats after a candidate filing deadline ends. (Tulsa World)

  • A bill in Congress gives $76 million in funding for Oklahoma military bases. (AP)

  • Sisters who survived a home invasion get the chance to meet the emergency dispatcher who walked them through the tragedy. (Fox25)

  • The Thunder is playing the first round of the NBA playoffs against its I-35 rivals. (NewsOK)

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