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  • Family Friends Remember Boy Killed In Moore Tornado

    MOORE, Oklahoma - Friends and teammates of Kyle Davis attended the boy's funeral wearing soccer jerseys bearing the number "16." A funeral was held Friday for the 8-year-old known by his soccer teammates as "The Wall." His teammates wore their own jerseys, and adults and others in the crowd wore shirts reading "K. Davis ...

  • Thousands of cases of water headed south

    Thousands of cases of water is headed to aid tornado victims, emergency crews and volunteers. More than 1,700 cases of water were collected this week. Keystone Chevrolet matched these donations case for case, and loaded it all up on a flatbed headed for central Oklahoma communities, and while a lot of focus is on Moore, these initial donations collected here are going to Carney and the Shawnee ...

  • Shawnee tornado victims request more aid

    SHAWNEE - Cleanup efforts continue in bethel acres after Sunday's deadly tornado. The impact zone is a mobile home park that was ravaged near Shawnee. A 79-year-old man died there. Another man died during the EF4 tornado Sunday, as well. Dozens of volunteers are cleaning up and supplies are being dropped off, but residents say it is not enough. So many are asking, when will the governor, ...

  • Shawnee man narrowly escapes tornado

    SHAWNEE -The tornado outbreak really began Sunday in Shawnee when an EF4 blew through. It hit in Bethel Acres destroying 75 percent of the mobile homes in this area, however one man was inside when that tornado came through and ...

  • Behind the hug that touched a nation

    MOORE, Okla. -- Sometimes the rubble of disaster exposes the best of humanity, the spirit of Americans and the sense that we're just all in this together. The Oklahoman's Berry Tramel has one such tale. In a wonderfully written piece, Tramel tells the story behind what has become ...

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Midnight Express [Blu-Ray]

Midnight Express [Blu-Ray]

Alan Parkers Midnight Express is a brutal and brutalizing film whose effects have diminished little in the decades since its controversial theatrical release in the late 1970s. It was both highly acclaimed, evidenced by a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and s ... ...

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  • Oklahoma school principal teachers reunite with students

    In an exclusive interview with Rock Center's Kate Snow, Plaza Towers Elementary School Principal Amy Simpson breaks her silence on the Oklahoma tornado that destroyed her school and left seven children dead. She describes recently reuniting with the students who survived the disaster and the students' resilience. Snow's full report with Simpson, three of her fellow teachers and ...

  • School official on tornado safety at destroyed Oklahoma school

    In an exclusive interview with Rock Center's Kate Snow, the superintendent of Moore Public Schools in Oklahoma, Susie Pierce, answers questions about tornado safety at the schools. At one school, Plaza Towers Elementary, seven children died. Snow's full report with Pierce and members of the faculty at Plaza Towers Elementary Friday, May 24 at 10 pm/9CDT on NBC's Rock Center with ...

  • Oklahoma school principal on the ‘fury of the tornado’

    In an exclusive interview with Rock Center's Kate Snow, Plaza Towers Elementary School Principal Amy Simpson breaks her silence on the Oklahoma tornado that destroyed her school and left seven children dead. Snow's full report with Simpson, three of her fellow teachers and the school's superintendent airs Friday, May 24 at 10 pm/9CDT on NBC's Rock Center with Brian ...

  • Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million

    victims , served more than 16,000 meals and snacks and given out more than 3,000 relief items like shovels, toiletries and trash bags. The Salvation Army has raised another $4.3 million, and donations made to individual victims or nonprofits ...

  • National Cowboy Western Heritage Museums Chuck Wagon Gathering moves forward

    The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Chuck Wagon Gathering and Children's Cowboy Festival set for Saturday and Sunday will go on, despite the impact of recent and upcoming weather. The event has been moved ...

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