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  • Twister that hit Oklahoma caused $2 bn in damage Twister that hit Oklahoma caused $2 bn in damage

    MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...

  • Nikki Sixx lashes out at Kim K for promoting make-up line during Okla. tornado

    Nikki Sixx has slammed Kim Kardashian on Twitter for promoting her new make-up collection on Monday in the aftermath of the disastrous tornado that destroyed a suburb near Oklahoma City. After the 'Motley Crue' bassist tweeted about the Red Cross relief for the ruined town, the reality TV star soon followed with her plug on her own makeup line on the website, the New York Post reported. "Love ...

  • Experts say Oklahoma tornados power dwarfed Hiroshima bomb

    The amount of energy the killer tornado that hit US state of Oklahoma had dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 for wind speed and breadth and severity of damage. Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and 210 mph. According to the New York Post, several meteorologists used real ...

  • Tornado spanned length of 22 soccer fields

    Residents of suburban Oklahoma were returning home as rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead after a mammoth tornado - said to be as wide as 22 football fields - flattened countless homes and claimed 24 lives, including nine children. Even as officials revised the death toll down from the earlier 51, the National Weather Service gave Monday's tornado that hit ...

  • Survivor 9 From Briarwood Elementary Happy To Go Home

    MOORE, Oklahoma - A 9-year-old girl was separated from her parents after the storm blew thru Briarwood Elementary. News 9 asked viewers to help Kaylee Hawkins find her parents and thankfully she was eventually reunited with her family. The parents of Kaylee Hawkins tried for five hours to find their daughter who was injured at Briarwood Elementary. The parents say their fourth grader ...

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The Good Girl

While The Good Girl purports to be a quirky slice-of-life melodrama about simple people caught in a dead-end world, what it ultimately does is deflate the myth of escape. Jennifer Aniston, in an impressive dramatic turn, plays a sad woman who hates everything about her life, but is powerless to do anything about it. At one point, she literally finds herself at a crossroads, with one turn l ... ...

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  • Moore Woman Goes Into Labor During Tornado

    MOORE, Oklahoma - The stories we continue to hear are amazing. And News 9's Karl Torp spoke with a woman who actually in labor right before the storm hit. Shayla Taylor was in the middle of labor on the second floor of Moore medical when the tornado hit, but baby wasn't on her brain. Her family, including her husband were sent downstairs to the cafeteria, but Shayla was too ...

  • Oklahoma emergency operations center to close

    Live updates ODEM spokeswoman Keli Cain says the center will close at midnight Wednesday. The center opened to help coordinate the state and federal response after the tornado hit Moore Monday afternoon and killed 24 people - including 10 children. Seven of the children were pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore. Officials say more than 300 people were injured and ...

  • Police Edmond Walmart cleared after bomb threat

    17min Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, ...

  • Local Red Cross effort raises $50000 for Oklahoma tornado survivors

    A fundraiser organized by the Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross and promoted through several local media companies had raised about $50,000 Wednesday night for survivors of the Oklahoma tornado. There were still hours left to go in the telethon, which was scheduled to end at midnight, said Winn Stephens, director of development for the Bluegrass Red Cross.The fundraiser began at noon ...

  • After tornado local woman still hasnt heard from Oklahoma sister

    LEBANON, Ore. -- Two days have passed and Eva Mosley-Schneider still has not heard from her sister, whose home was in the direct path of ...

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