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SPALDING, Idaho (AP) _ From the rolling Clearwater Valley to New York City's concrete canyons, a silver medal that may have been given to a Nez Perce Indian chief by Lewis and Clark in 1806 has made an improbable journey.

Its provenance isn't ironclad, but some historians believe this Jefferson Peace Medal minted in Philadelphia went up the Missouri River in a pirogue, was buried in an Indian grave, later plundered by Northern Pacific Railroad workers, and eventually landed with Edward Dean Adams, the New York financier and J.P. Morgan contemporary.

Long considered stolen, it surfaced around 2002 in the American Museum of Natural History's South American collection.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Sixth-grade teacher Richard Whittaker is a modern-day Merlin with long gray locks.

But he wears sport clothes instead of robes, and in place of a wand he uses iPods to take his students from Collister Elementary School in Boise to real-time scientific explorations at the bottom of the sea or on a wild weather trip.

He can load lessons enhanced with video clips, homework assignments, quizzes, videos, music, books on tape and more on the class iPods for use in all subjects he teaches, including English, math, social studies and reading.

Students can take the iPods ? purchased with a Qwest Foundation grant ? home. They can do much of their work on the machines and even show off their own videos.
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Tulsa homicide detectives make an arrest in the city's latest murder. Officers actually found their suspect already sitting in a jail cell.

Nearly 90,000 tickets are issued in the City of Tulsa every year. Sixty-three thousand of those folks don't have to show up for court, but many don't realize it.

A high-speed chase down the Turner Turnpike kept the Oklahoma Highway Patrol busy Friday afternoon.

Each year, long lines of people rely on the John 3:16 Mission for Thanksgiving baskets.

Analysts say Oklahoma is immune from the national economic troubles, mostly because of our strong oil and gas industry.