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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Roland Burris failed in his bid to take President-elect Barack Obama's Illinois Senate seat on Tuesday in a scripted piece of political theater staged just before the opening of the 111th Congress.

"Mr. Burris is not in possession of the necessary credentials from the state of Illinois," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said in his speech opening the new session of Congress.

Burris, 71, earlier confirmed that Secretary of State Nancy Erickson had informed him in a private meeting that his credentials lacked a required signature and his state's seal.

"I will not be accepted, I will not be seated," Burris told a mob of reporters who had followed him across the street for a news conference in
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The city of Tulsa has its first homicide of 2009.  Tulsa Police say 15-year old Kordero Coleman died Tuesday morning at a Tulsa hospital.

A 49-year old Tulsa man is in critical condition after he is shot during a domestic dispute early Tuesday morning.   

Layoffs announced at the Tulsa World newspaper Tuesday morning.

A Tulsa man has been sentenced in connection with the stabbing death of Jared Harris in November 2007.

One person is rushed to a Tulsa hospital after he is stabbed overnight.