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Headlines: Rethinking Tax Credits, One Dollar Gas & Facebook Crime Solving

Headlines for Thursday, February 11, 2016:

  • Governor Fallin is walking back her State of the State call to remove some tax credits. (NewsOK)

  • A bill requiring upper level judges to run for election narrowly passes a House Committee. (Journal Record)

  • Lawmaker warns of 110,000 Oklahomans losing Medicaid coverage. (Tulsa World)

  • Oklahoma teens arrive at the Capitol to support new legislation on texting and driving. (Tulsa World)

  • Liquor store owners worry they aren’t allowed input in changing laws. (Journal Record)

  • Oklahoma’s education leader testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives. (News on 6)

  • Tulsa schools considers $1M contract for consulting. (Tulsa World)

  • The new interim leader of the state’s prison warns of major problems with the agency. (AP)

  • After three-and-a-half days of deliberating, a federal jury convicts a Tulsa physicist of fraud. (Tulsa World)

  • An Oklahoma energy company is laying off 60 employees and closing its Oklahoma City office. (Tulsa World)

  • AAA says gas prices statewide not likely to drop below $1. (KOCO)

  • A business in Tulsa is laying off almost half its workforce. (Tulsa World)

  • The interim Comanche Nation chairman is considering whether to run permanently for the position. (KSWO)

  • University students in southwest Oklahoma are getting access to real cadavers in a state-of-the-art lab. (Lawton Constitution)

  • The Oklahoma City Thunder community is mourning the loss of one of its own. (NewsOK)

  • An Oklahoma man recovers thousands of dollars of his stolen property after seeing it on Facebook. (KSWO)

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