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US singer Patti Page, famous for songs including "The Tennessee Waltz" and the novelty hit "How much is that Doggie in the Window?", has died, a spokesman said Wednesday. She was 85.

An Oklahoma County judge has denied a transgender name change based on the Bible. An Oklahoma County judge has denied a transgender name change based on the Bible. James Dean Ingram's request to legally change her name to Angela Renee Ingram was denied by Judge Bill Graves. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma is presenting Ingram in her appeal. ?She was devastated,? Brady Henderson, legal director for the ACLU, told Tulsa's NewsOn6.com. ?She reported even feeling like she wanted to take her own life because of the way she was treated.? Ingram, who takes hormone treatments but has yet to undergo gender reassignment surgery, was told her request was being denied because this was God's will, according to the ACLU. ?What we do see here is evidence of an imposition of a personal idea of what gender is supposed to be,? Henderson said. Judge Graves provided as an example a similar case in which he ruled that ?The DNA code shows God meant for them to stay male and female. ? To grant

Some 300 Marilyn Monroe fans gathered at the Los Angeles cemetery where she is buried, commemorating the iconic sex symbol on the 50th anniversary of her death.

Hunter Mahan birdied five holes on the front nine to shoot a six-under 65 and take a two-shot lead after two rounds of the PGA Tour's $6.5 million AT&T National tournament.

Bail was set at some $9.2 million Monday for two men charged in Tulsa, Oklahoma over the weekend for a shooting spree that some in the community said bore the hallmarks of a hate crime.

Police arrested two white men who they believe are responsible for a shooting spree that claimed three lives and injured two people in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Authorities in Oklahoma launched a manhunt Saturday for a gunman suspected in four shootings in the city of Tulsa that killed at least three people, officials said.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma jury decided in favor of native son superstar singer Garth Brooks on Tuesday, saying a hospital company defrauded him by accepting a $500,000 donation and failing to honor his request to name a building for his late mother.

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Two guns believed seized from gangsters Bonnie and Clyde in 1933 after a deadly Missouri shootout with police sold for a combined $210,000 at an auction on Saturday in Kansas City to an unnamed online bidder.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and its key supporters are looking to grow on a national scale a fundraising effort targeting rich individual donors that was successful in its Democratic stronghold of Chicago, according to sources familiar with the program.

American Airlines' parent company AMR filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, as the troubled firm tried to put its finances in order while keeping planes in the sky and passengers in seats.

(Reuters) - A consortium led by private equity firm KKR & Co <KKR.N> clinched a deal to buy oil and gas group Samson Investment Co for $7.2 billion, KKR said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - A consortium led by private equity firm KKR & Co <KKR.N> clinched a deal to buy oil and gas group Samson Investment Co for $7.2 billion, KKR said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - A consortium led by private equity firm KKR & Co <KKR.N> clinched a deal to buy oil and gas group Samson Investment Co for $7.2 billion, KKR said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - A consortium led by private equity firm KKR & Co <KKR.N> clinched a deal to buy oil and gas group Samson Investment Co for $7.2 billion, KKR said on Wednesday.

Children cradling a baby doll sold by Toys R Us will now have to play a new game -- teaching their infant some manners.

An illustrated book describing Canada's vast wilds, masked medicine men and a missionary's taming of bears at the onset of European colonization will hit bookstores on Saturday -- three centuries after it was written.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Professional German poker player Pius Heinz won an $8.7 million jackpot in the World Series of Poker championship, the third highest payout for a poker champion in history, organizers said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Credit Suisse AG, Switzerland's second-largest bank, has begun notifying certain U.S. clients suspected of offshore tax evasion that it intends to turn over their names to the Internal Revenue Service, with the help of Swiss tax authorities.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A judge blocked a new Oklahoma law on Wednesday that would have prohibited women in the state from having medication-induced abortions to end unwanted early-term pregnancies.