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Headlines: Unskilled Workers, Oil Production & Women in Stand-Up

Headlines for Thursday, April 2, 2015:

  • A new study finds Oklahoma students aren’t getting prepared for high skilled jobs. (NewsOK)

  • Analysts are raising concerns about oil production in 2015. (Journal Record)

  • A bill keeping cities and towns from enacting drilling bans clears a Senate committee. (Tulsa World)

  • The State Senate gives its approval to a bill which would make state schools smoke free 24-hours a day. (NewsOK)

  • Controversies in Indiana and Arkansas over anti-gay measures aren’t likely in Oklahoma this year. (Tulsa World)

  • Governor Fallin requests a federal disaster declaration for Tulsa and Cleveland counties after last week's deadly tornadoes. (AP)

  • The first-ever chairman of the Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Commission is resigning from his post. (NewsOK)

  • Southwest Oklahoma is looking at a dredging Waurika Lake to survive the drought. (NewsOK)

  • Reptiles once owned by the late musician Michael Jackson were among the animals that died in a fire last month. (NewsOK)

  • A Tulsa estate mortgage company is growing. (Journal Record)

  • Oklahoma’s female comedians are taking their career in standup seriously. (Oklahoma Gazette)

  • The Oklahoma City Thunder loses at home to the Dallas Mavericks, 135 to 131. (ESPN)

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