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  • President Obama scheduled to tour tornado damaged areas

    OKLAHOMA CITY — This week’s deadly tornado outbreak across the Sooner State captured national attention including that of from the president. "The people of Moore (Oklahoma) should know that their country will remain on the ground, there for them, beside them, as long as it takes," President Obama says. Sunday morning President Obama will be on sooner soil. The president ...

  • Tulsa Zoo Celebrates Rhinoceros Awareness Day

    North Tulsa - The Tulsa Zoo is inviting guests to celebrate an endangered species this weekend.The White Rhinoceros is facing extinction in the wild, so Tulsa zoo keepers are working to help save them.Saturday afternoon, guests got a front row to the animals and learned how to make a difference.Jessica Scallan is the large mammal keeper, and she says, "Rhino awareness day is a great ...

  • Boom first sign of problem on I-5 bridge

    The first sign for a truck driver that something was wrong on a bridge on Interstate 5 that collapsed into Washington's Skagit River was the sound of a "boom," a federal investigator said ...

  • Obama to visit tornado-stricken Oklahoma

    Nearly a week after a massive tornado struck a suburb of Oklahoma City, US President Barack Obama is expected to visit the devastated area on Sunday.Obama will see firsthand the response to the destruction caused by the twister that hit Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people, including 10 children.He will visit with families affected by the storm and thank emergency response teams, a White House ...

  • Ticket Scalpers Ruin Spirit Of Tornado Benefit Concert

    The tickets for the "Healing in the Heartland" concert at Chesapeake Energy Arena on Wednesday sold out in minutes Saturday morning. And it didn't take long for scalpers to start selling those tickets online for over 10X face ...

Movie Review

Where the Heart Is [DVD]

Where the Heart Is [DVD]

"Where the Heart Is" is a shamelessly contrived melodrama with so many bizarre plot twists and tragic occurrences--desertion, child abuse, child kidnapping, a killer tornado, insanity, alcoholism, a character 's legs being cut off by a train--that it could conceivably rank up there with the ultimate of all high-pitched melodramas, "Kings Row" (1942), which also plays like a laundry list of terrib ... ...

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  • WWII Letters Finally Returned To Family of Oklahoma Soldiers

    DRUMRIGHT, Oklahoma - An estate sale purchase in Oklahoma turned up a priceless treasure. More than 250 letters written by soldier brothers during World War II were discovered inside a box 15 years ago. On Saturday, they were returned to their family. Pamela Gilleland purchased a box of items at a Drumright estate sale in the late 1990s. "And it was a dollar maybe for the big ...

  • Volunteers gather to help rebuild tornado-hit farm

    The farm was in the path of Monday's tornado, and it tore through many buildings. On Saturday, help arrived in droves to get the farm up and running ...

  • Students Clean Up Whats Left of Teachers Home

    Before graduation on Saturday morning, 75 students from Westmoore and Southmoore high schools decided to help our Sharon Liston, whose house was ripped apart in the ...

  • Tulsa Childrens Museum Taps Into Kids Creativity

    Still looking for something fun for the kids to do this holiday weekend? The Tulsa Children's Museum just may be the place. The museum held the grand opening on Saturday for its new Discovery Lab. There are all kinds of great hands-on exhibits to help kids explore their innovative and creative side. There's sure to be something for everyone in the family. "Our target age is 2 ...

  • GRDA Patrols Amp Up On Grand Lake As Boating Season Kicks Off

    Two college students were killed at the start of the season when the boat they were riding in crashed into a docked houseboat. The driver admitted to ...

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