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  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Several Oklahoma Groups Get Literacy Grants From Dollar General

    TULSA, Oklahoma - Dollar General's Literacy Foundation has awarded two Tulsa organizations just over $15,000 for improving literacy and education. The foundation says the YWCA of Tulsa and Tulsa's Community Action Project have been given $8,000 and $7,500 respectively. "At Dollar General, we are passionate about our mission of Serving Others throughout the communities we ...

  • Tornado warning for Oklahoma City in 2nd day of storms

    By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News Oklahoma City was under a tornado warning Monday afternoon, and video showed what appeared to be a clearly defined tornado touching down outside the city.A helicopter pilot ...

  • Millions of back taxes owed in Tulsa Co.

    TULSA - A big chunk of the Tulsa Public School district's budget comes from property tax. There's enough money owed to make up $20 million in cuts that the district has received over the past five years, according to records from the Tulsa County Treasurer's Office. 2NEWS Investigators poured over property taxes owed in Tulsa County for 2012. We found businesses and/or individuals ...

  • Breaking News Heres your cheat sheet about Oklahoma tornadoes

    The greater Oklahoma City area was listed as experiencing tornadoes Sunday the 19th of May. My peer on Twitter communicated concerns, as to hernews reports appeared to indicate that the storms were upon me as I sat in my Midtown office. And local sirens were sounding when she noted her ...

Movie Review

Narc

Narc

Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore film, Narc, is, except that it is filmed with such energy and bravado and boasts two performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric that are so impressive that it rises above its generic roots and be ... ...

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  • The Best Deal in Oklahoma City

    libraries offering these great opportunities. The best part for parents is that this exciting educational program is generally free. That is all a part of the long history of libraries encouraging people to read; they invented the summer reading program in the 1890's. While schools have the job of teaching the mechanics of reading, the public library is the entity that encourages people to ...

  • One dead in Oklahoma as tornadoes wreak havoc and destruction in Midwest

    Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the ...

  • Oklahoma-based My Dentist opens Wichita office on Rock Road

    A new dental office, My Dentist, is now officially part of the Wichita market. My Dentist is now officially part of the Wichita market. The dental clinic, which has locations throughout Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, opened Monday at 1443 N. Rock Road, near the intersection of 13th and Rock. The nearly 7,000-square-foot space was most recently home to the Kwan Court ...

  • Oklahoma City man accused of embezzling copper

    An Oklahoma City man is accused of stealing $5,000 worth of copper from his employer and selling it, Oklahoma City police reported Monday. Alfred Allen Engst, 49, was arrested Thursday on an embezzlement ...

  • Veteran Firefighter Killed In Massive Dallas Condo Fire

    DALLAS - Dallas firefighters have recovered the body of a comrade who reported by radio being trapped while battling a condominium complex blaze. Dallas Fire-Rescue officials identified the victim of Monday's blaze as 51-year-old Stanley Wilson. Wilson had been a Dallas firefighter for 28 years. A U.S. flag covered Wilson's body when it was removed from the rubble Monday morning. ...

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