News Minute: Here is the latest Oklahoma news from The Associated Press

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Governor Mary Fallin is proposing that the state's Insure Oklahoma program direct $50 million in state tobacco taxes to pay for more than 9,000 Oklahomans who are expected to lose their Medicaid health insurance. Fallin released a statement yesterday urging lawmakers to redirect the $50 million so the Insure Oklahoma could continue to operate as a "smaller, more targeted program run with state dollars only."

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month. The five-member board voted 3-2 yesterday against commuting the death sentence of James Lewis DeRosa. He faces a June 18th execution for the stabbing deaths of 73-year-old Curtis Plummer and 70-year-old Gloria Plummer in 2000.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - State officials say Oklahoma's unemployment rate dipped below 5% in April. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the state's unemployment decreased by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.9% last month. That remains well below the national unemployment rate of 7.5%.

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers are working to learn the circumstances under which a bald eagle died. Officials said yesterday the dead eagle was found at a motel in Sallisaw. Fort Smith television station KHBS reports that the raptor's talons and tail feathers had been removed. Feathers from the eagle's wings were also gone.

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News Minute: Here is the latest Oklahoma news from The Associated Press