Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion

FILE – In this March 10, 2016 file photo, Sandy Springer, of Edmond, Okla., stands with other members of Bound 4 Life, an anti-abortion group, at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma House has passed legislation that requires the state Department of Health to develop informational material “for the purpose of achieving an abortion-free society,” but lawmakers didn’t approve any funding for it. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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Southern Plains Flooding: At Least 28 Killed in Texas and Oklahoma; President Obama Signs Disaster Declaration

Roberto Salas, left, and Lewis Sternhagen check a flooded car on a frontage road near the Willow Waterhole Bayou on Tuesday in Houston. Floodwaters kept rising Tuesday across much of Texas as storms dumped almost another foot of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists and inundating the highways. (Marie D. De Jesus/AP)

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Deadly storms swamp Plains, Midwest, force Texans from homes

Jeremy Steele, left, Ric Jaime, center, and Keith McNabb salvage belongings at their friend Mike Cook’s house near Wimberley, Texas, Sunday, May 24, 2015. About 350 homes in the town of Wimberley were washed away by flash floods along the Blanco River, which rose 26 feet in just one hour and left piles of wreckage 20 feet high, Texas authorities said. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

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Drenching rains force scores of rescues in Oklahoma City

A car drives past a damaged awning of a gas station during a thunder storm in Oklahoma City, Saturday, May 23, 2015. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation said at least 15 highways have been closed across the state due to high water from the recent flooding. (Nate Billings/The Oklahoman via AP)

 

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Study: Oklahoma’s daily small quakes raise risk of big ones

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2011 file photo, Chad Devereaux examines bricks that fell from three sides of his in-laws home in Sparks, Okla., after two...

FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2011 file photo, Chad Devereaux examines bricks that fell from three sides of his in-laws home in Sparks, Okla., after two earthquakes hit the area in less than 24 hours. New federal research says small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily are dramatically increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, new federal research indicates. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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