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  • Volunteer benefit concert information

    You can head to Shawnee. The Family of Faith needs volunteers to help clean up debris and make repairs. Please call 405-273-5331 before you head over. You can go to the First Baptist Church of Moore starting at 8 a.m. this weekend. Bring gloves and be ready to help load and unload donations. You can also go to Life Church in South Oklahoma City at 10 a.m. this weekend. Or you can go to ...

  • Teen in devastated Oklahoma town handing out hugs

    Moore, Oklahoma: The people of the Oklahoma town where a deadly tornado struck could use just about everything - cleaning supplies, food, water, shelter.Thirteen-year-old Halle Carr thought residents of her hometown could also use a hug after the twister Monday that killed 24 people in Moore.Halle has been standing on a corner with a white sign that reads: "Need a hug? I am here!" And ...

  • Oklahoma tornadoes Plaza Towers Elementary School teacher shoved students into bathroom as wall collapsed

    MOORE -- As Monday's tornado bore down on Plaza Towers Elementary School, first-grade teacher Becky Evans herded her students into a hallway and told them to crouch down in front of a wall in and cover their heads and ...

  • Video Listen Desperate 911 calls from Moore Oklahoma

    Abby the dachshund was found and reunited with her owner 48 hours after being buried underneath debris from the Moore, Okla., tornado. KWTV's Michael Konopasek ...

  • Oklahoma is disaster hot spot

    In this May 23, 2013 file photo, class photos still decorate a classroom wall amid the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla. The principal of the Oklahoma elementary school where seven children died in a tornado says her teachers did everything they could to save their lives. Principal Amy Simpson said at ...

Movie Review

In the Mood for Love (Hua yang nian hua) [DVD]

In the Mood for Love (Hua yang nian hua) [DVD]

Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (Hua yang nian hua) is an elegant, poetic exploration of romantic yearning, repressed emotions, and the age-old conflict between tradition-bound behavior and emotional longings. ...

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  • Heart-Wrenching Accounts Shared At Moore Tornado Presser

    MOORE, Oklahoma - Principals and teachers at elementary schools hardest hit by Monday's monster storm describe the horrifying events of that day. The EF-5 tornado tore apart Plaza Towers and Briarwood Elementary schools as teachers tried to protect their students. The heroism of those two principals and all the teachers and staff is indescribable. They risked their lives to save children ...

  • Feds Balk At Proposed $20 Million Severance For American Airlines CEO

    WASHINGTON - A proposed $20 million severance payment for the CEO of American Airlines has come under fire recently. The merger with US Airways calls for Tom Horton to lose his job and become chairman. Friday, the Justice Department said $20 million is too high and should be rejected. Horton's contract calls for a $6 million severance. The case is moving through federal bankruptcy ...

  • Oklahomans Divided On Boy Scouts Decision To Allow Openly Gay Troops

    Toby Jenkins, Director of Oklahoman for Equality, and who was a boy scout for several years, said now boys who would have been in scouting anyway, can feel respected and ...

  • Moore tornado was ninth deadliest in Oklahoma history

    The EF5 tornado that hit Moore on Monday is the state's ninth deadliest on record, according to National Weather Service records. A preliminary report shows at least eight tornadoes hit Oklahoma on Sunday and ...

  • Oklahoma tornadoes 27 remain hospitalized from tornadoes

    Local hospitals reported 27 individuals remained hospitalized Friday from injuries suffered in Sunday's and Monday's tornadoes, as healing continued throughout central ...

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