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  • Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 bn

    The tornado that killed 24 people and injured more than 200 others in Moore, Oklahoma, could have done more than $2 billion worth of damage, officials said Wednesday. State Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced that figure Wednesday in a statement to the press, adding that losses from the wreckage could equal the amount caused by the twister that struck Joplin, Missouri, in 2011, leaving ...

  • Oklahoma Tornado Shows Progress In Weather Warnings

    utter devastation left in the wake of the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday, the deadly storm, in many ways, helped show how far scientists have come in providing communities early tornado warning ...

  • Carney and Shawnee storm victims recovering

    SHAWNEE, Okla. – The death toll from Monday’s tornado still stands at 24, but it’s important to remember the loss of life actually began the night before on Sunday. That’s when an F-4 tornado flattened a mobile home park outside Shawnee. While much of the spotlight remains focused on the Moore area, that community is also recovering from tragedy. His home destroyed, ...

  • Video Mother-to-be was in labor as Oklahoma tornado hit

    With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to deliver. Shayla Taylor survived, and her son was born at a hospital a few miles away. Elaine Quijano ...

  • Oklahoma miracle baby -- born amidst tornado chaos

    Shayla Taylor was in labor when the devastating Moore, Oklahoma tornado hit. She had to moved to the operating room where there were no windows and braced herself along with the ...

Movie Review

Sinister

For all of its foreboding, shadowy atmosphere and jump-from-the-dark scare moments, Scott Derricksons Sinister is at its core the story of a Faustian bargainand you know those never turn out well. The Faust in this instance is Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), a true-crime writer who hit the to ... ...

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  • Aussies Kiwis saw tornado shred Oklahoma

    AS the atmospheric conditions brewed perfectly outside Oklahoma City earlier this week to create the monster killer tornado, Australians and New Zealanders from all walks of life watched nearby in fear and awe. There were amateur storm chasers like Perth couple Melissa and Brayden Marshall, Brisbane's Dean Naromore and Kiwi Neill Ellis, who, for their holidays, travelled to America's ...

  • Correction Oklahoma Tornado story

    MOORE, Okla. -; In some early versions of a story May 22 about damage estimates from the tornado in Moore, Okla., The Associated Press misspelled the name of the city's mayor. He is Glenn Lewis, not ...

  • Community Supercomputer Unveiled In Tulsa

    TULSA, Oklahoma - It may be a world-wide first--a Tulsa supercomputer was unveiled Thursday, and it's open to the public. The computer, usually reserved for big companies, is now available for Oklahoma's universities, businesses and entrepreneurs. "Personally it's very exciting to get to use something like this, and be able to work on it and have it in my backyard," ...

  • In Tornados Wake Carney Church Bands Together To Aid Neighbors

    CARNEY, Oklahoma - The Hayes family says they had nine people inside a small storm shelter, three of whom were hanging on to the door for dear life while the storm passed over. When they got out, they saw a missing barn and house and five cars destroyed. And that is just a small part of the 20-mile path of destruction near Carney. In Sunday's EF3 twister in Wellston and Carney in ...

  • Plaza Towers Teachers Families Share Special Reunion

    At Eastlake Elementary in Moore, parents brought their kids from Plaza Towers Elementary for a special reunion. This is the first time they're reuniting since Monday's devastating tornado hit their ...

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