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Oklahoma News Minute
Posted: 09.06.2012 at 7:00 PM
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MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) - Officials say three football players at Bacone College became sick yesterday while running in the triple-digit heat. One student had to go to the hospital and school officials say they're now reviewing their policy on hot weather workouts.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Students are heading to classes in a vacant elementary school today after a fire destroyed the Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences yesterday. Workers had to scramble to get Sequoyah Elementary ready for today's classes. Eight firefighters were burned after a series of explosions at the school.

COLLINSVILLE, Okla. (AP) - A ceremony will be held this morning in Collinsville to name a section of U.S. Highway 169 after an Oklahoma Army National Guardsman who died last year in Afghanistan. Specialist Christopher Horton was a 26-year-old sniper when he was killed last September. He was a member of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma County judge is schedule to unseal a series of indictments today that were returned last month by the state's multicounty grand jury. Authorities haven't disclosed the nature of the cases.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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