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Gerald E. Hall, 34, of Oklahoma City, died at the hospital, Wardlow said.

The officers involved were Lt. Arthur Gregory, Sgt. Kelly Corcoran, Sgt. Daniel Putnam, Sgt. Nicklas Wald, Sgt. Ryan Schweitzer and Sgt. Mark Nelson.

About 4:30 p.m. Monday, police responded to reports of a man trying to pour charcoal lighter fluid on an apartment building at 1005 NW 105.

When police arrived, Hall barricaded himself in a restroom of a convenience store at 10600 N Western Ave. Fearing he might try to harm himself or start another fire, officers broke in the door.

As officers tried to arrest Hall he became combative and fought with them, Wardlow said.

Hall became unresponsive.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW Far from Washington, President Barack Obama found, for an hour at least Monday, an audience welcoming of his plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Midway through his town hall-style forum at a Mountain View computer history museum, he called on one of them.

“I don’t have a job, but that’s because I’ve been lucky enough to live in Silicon Valley for a while and work for a small startup down the street here that did quite well, so I’m unemployed by choice,” said Doug Edwards, a former Google brand manager who was sitting in a back row.

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BOSTON Massachusetts senators resumed their casino debate Tuesday, quickly becoming mired in the question of whether to create a five-year cooling-off period before any former legislator could be employed by a casino. The proposal sparked a divisive debate on the floor of the Senate. Senators supporting the amendment said it would help guard against lawmakers using their political connections to land a casino job. But critics of the amendment said it would feed the publics cynicism of Beacon Hill. They accused casino opponents of launching an attack against their colleagues in the chamber.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Board of Juvenile Affairs has called a special meeting for 2 p.m. Thursday to discuss added ways to restrain juveniles involved in altercations at its facilities. The Oklahoma City meeting comes after a second outbreak of violence last week at the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Tecumseh. The board will discuss seeking changes to a landmark court case, the so-called Terry D. Case, which governs the use of mechanical restraints on juveniles. The federal lawsuit alleged abusive practices, unconstitutional use of isolation and restraints, untrained staff members and the mingling of offenders with nonoffenders. The case was dismissed in 1996. Find more info…

RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue’s re-election campaign has surrendered a small donation after worries the money may have been loaned to a donor by a family member.

Perdue’s campaign lawyer wrote to the State Board of Elections and enclosed a check for $500, equal to the Aug. 22 contribution attributed by the campaign to Jarrett Culbreth. The governor’s political committee was concerned Culbreth may have received a loan from his grandfather to attend a fundraising event in Asheville that day, campaign officials said.

“We did not know for certain whether this was the case, but we decided that the best thing to do was to disgorge the money just to be safe,” campaign spokesman Marc Farinella wrote in an e-mail.

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