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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 ...

  • Reconnecting Oklahoma Tornado Victims With Their Lost Photos

    TULSA, Oklahoma - News On 6 has gotten dozens of calls and emails across Green Country about finding photos and other documents from as far away as Shawnee. Those items tend to blow away when tornadoes hit, but one Oklahoman has found a way to get them back to the owners using Facebook. After every tornado we all find things some in the cleanup and other things simply blow into our own ...

  • Daybreak Brings Heartbreaking Look At Oklahoma Tornado Damage

    BETHEL ACRES, Oklahoma - Hundreds of residents in Bethel Acres, Little Axe and Carney are being allowed to return Monday morning to neighborhoods hard hit by tornadoes, so they can try to salvage what's left of their homes and memories. Devastating, destructive tornadoes ripped across central Oklahoma Sunday. One hit the Steelman Estates mobile home park in Bethel Acres in Pottawatomie ...

  • Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest One person killed in Oklahoma

    Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. One person was killed near Shawnee, Okla., and 21 injuries were reported throughout the ...

  • Bethany woman saved from attacker by family dog

    BETHANY -- Authorities in Bethany say a woman and her infant who were attacked by a man posing as a delivery driver were saved by the family ...

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The Three Marias (As Três Marias)

Brazilian director Aluisio Abranches The Three Marias (As Trs Marias), his second feature film, begins in grisly fashion with the murder of the three men of the Capadcio family. The first two killings we dont witness, but we see the bloody aftermath: a father is disemboweled and hung by his own intestines and a son has his eyes and heart cut out. The third murder, of another son, we ... ...

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  • Power outages continue Monday following Sunday tornado outbreak in Oklahoma

    More than 2,500 electric customers of Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. remain without power due to tornadoes Sunday, the OG&E website reports Monday ...

  • Sooners go hog wild on Razorbacks win regional

    Oklahoma’s top-ranked softball team run-ruled Arkansas 14-1 in 5 innings to win the NCAA regional at Marita Hynes Field in Norman on Sunday. The Sooners scored five unearned runs in the 3rd inning, then added six more in the 4th to cruise to their second win in as many days over the Razorbacks. Lauren Chamberlain connected for her 27th home run of the year, finishing the regional with a ...

  • Sooners finish regular season Big 12 Tournament next

    Oklahoma’s baseball team closed the regular season with a 7-3 win over Kansas State in Manhattan on Sunday. The win gives OU the fourth seed for the Big 12 Baseball Tournament at the Bricktown Ballpark. The Sooners will play fifth seeded Baylor at 9:00 am on Wednesday. Oklahoma State will be the second seed for the tournament and will face TCU at 7:30 Wednesday ...

  • Deadly Twisters Tear Through Central Oklahoma

    SHAWNEE, Oklahoma - Tornadoes ravaged portions of central 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 open. "You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up," Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth ...

  • 1 dead after Shawnee tornado

    SHAWNEE, Okla. -- An Oklahoma sheriff is crediting early warnings for a low death toll during a tornado outbreak that ravaged the Plains and ...

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