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Headlines: Graduation Rates Drop, Planned Parenthood Funding & Tattoo Regrets

Headlines for Thursday, July 30, 2015:

  • Oklahoma is seeing a drop in high school graduation rates statewide. (Oklahoma Watch)

  • Collections to Oklahoma’s general revenue drop again. (Tulsa World)

  • Unemployment in Oklahoma City rises for third straight month. (NewsOK)

  • Tulsa’s jobless rate jumps to nearly 5%. (Tulsa World)

  • Oklahoma County Commissioners are turning to business leaders to get support for a new jail. (NewsOK)

  • Corporate sponsorship for American Indian Cultural Center in OKC might be hard to find. (Journal Record)

  • The Oklahoma Federation of Republican Women is apologizing for a Facebook post. (KFOR)

  • Three Oklahoma lawmakers propose new anti-Planned Parenthood bills. (NewsOK)

  • Residents of Broken Arrow hold a vigil for the family involved in a mass murder last week. (Tulsa World)

  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency denies Governor Fallin’s request for individual assistance for 19 counties. (Muskogee Phoenix)

  • Boeing is adding to its Oklahoma City corporate campus. (Norman Transcript)

  • State leaders lobby to be home for new fighter jet. (NewsOK)

  • Norman might be getting an armored police vehicle. (Norman Transcript)

  • Two-hundred Tulsans show support for Bernie Sanders. (Tulsa World)
     
  • Stillwater High School is getting a new lift for its students with disabilities. (Stillwater News Press)

  • The Choctaw Nation is getting ready to finish its casino resort in Durant this September. (Journal Record)

  • After ten years of legal tattooing in Oklahoma, there are some regrets to getting oneself inked. (OK Gazette)

  • An Oklahoma nicotine vapor store is having a big impact nationwide. (Journal Record)

  • Tulsa’s Oxley Nature Center is getting some new residents. (News on 6)

  • Blake Shelton/Miranda Lambert divorce judge defends sealing documents. (NewsOK)

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