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A bill that would have allowed the citizens of Oklahoma County and Tulsa County to decide for themselves what form of county government works best for them failed by less than a handful of votes in the Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday. But the measure has another chance to succeed if lawmakers agree to take another vote on it during the next few days.
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A measure to modify the Youthful Offender Act passed out of the Senate today. Senate Bill 1760, by Senator Nancy Riley, will automatically charge persons aged fifteen to seventeen as adults if they are charged with first degree murder.

"We're talking about fifteen, sixteen and seventeen year olds who have firmly implanted in their minds what is right and wrong - committing murder," said Riley, R-Tulsa. "And when you're dead, you're dead."
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