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Headlines: Inmate Pay, Homeless Children & Smoking Restrictions

Here is a sampling of headlines for the morning of November 18, 2014:

  • The city of Tulsa is going to pay 59-dollars a day to house its municipal inmates in the county jail under a proposed agreement.  (Tulsa World)
     
  • A port authority board is withdrawing plans to manage operations at an eastern Oklahoma airport. (Muskogee Phoenix)
     
  • A new stage of the Boulevard in Oklahoma City shuts down major streets in the downtown area. (NewsOK.com)
     
  • A Muskogee food pantry says it won't be able to continue its decades-old tradition of giving out Thanksgiving turkeys. (Tulsa World)
  • A train car company wants to test the viability of a passenger line from Oklahoma City to Sapulpa. (Journal Record)
     
  • A new report shows Oklahoma ranks as one of the highest states for homeless children in the nation. (Oklahoma Watch)
     
  • The city of Stillwater approves new stringent smoking and tobacco restrictions. (O'Colly)
     
  • Teachers in Tulsa are getting a pay raise. (Tulsa World)
     
  • The state Department of Human Services has more work to do under a federal class-action lawsuit. (NewsOK)
     
  • A painting by O. Gail Poole has getting added to the State Art Collection by Oklahoma's Arts Council. (Tulsa World)
     
  • Cold temperatures create a big mess at the Oklahoma County Jail. (News 9)
     
  • A mobile home fire in the eastern Oklahoma town of Longtown claims the life of a woman and injures an infant. (McAlester News Capital)
     
  • The NCAA tournament in Tulsa two years from now could bring millions of dollars. (News on 6)
     
  • Former OU star Running Back Adrian Peterson is getting suspended for the rest of the season. (ESPN)
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