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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 tornadoes Pecan Valley residents struggle to recover

    More than 200 homes were damaged or destroyed by a tornado that tore through east Norman, Pecan Valley and the Newalla area on Sunday. Many residents are left struggling to ...

  • Oklahoma tornadoes Hospitals continue to treat patients injured from tornadoes

    At least 367 people have been treated over the past few days at Oklahoma City-area hospitals for tornado-related injuries. As of Thursday evening, OU Medical Center and The Children's Hospital have received a combined 93 patients, including 59 children and 34 adults. Of the 59 adults, eight were victims of Sunday's tornadoes. No children were treated as a result of those ...

  • Oklahoma tornadoes Longtime friend takes in Orr Family horses

    After the May 3, 1999, tornado ripped through Moore, the Orr family opened its stables to neighbors seeking shelter for displaced horses. Now that same favor is being extended to the Orr ...

  • Oklahoma tornadoes Energy company donation seeds nonprofit for school safe rooms

    Apache Corp. said Thursday it would donate $500,000 to a new nonprofit established by two state legislators to help schools build safe rooms and storm ...

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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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  • Oklahoma tornadoes Stories from the storm

    A couple dozen members of NET Church in Oklahoma City brought two U-Haul trucks filled with supplies to First Baptist Church in Moore on Tuesday. Pastor Joel Tudman, the assistant strength coach at OSU, said Okung donated $3,000 to help buy the supplies donated by NET Church. Church volunteers unloaded water, baby formula and diapers, bathroom tissue and paper towels, gloves, granola bars, ...

  • Oklahoma City group trying to turn U.S. Postal Service on to natural gas

    An idea launched on the Internet is becoming closer to reality, thanks to the timely intervention of a former U.S. Air Force pilot. Oilman Ron Mercer and adman Bob Hammack hatched their plan almost two years ago: Save the U.S. Postal Service from going broke by switching from gasoline to cheaper natural ...

  • Ford Cliff firefighters head to Oklahoma

    Josh Adams, one of five Ford Cliff volunteer firefighters going to Oklahoma, checks out equipment Thursday that can be used to help with clean up efforts in communities devastated by the tornado. BRIGID BEATTY I LEADER ...

  • Oklahoma Tornadoes Businessmen donate fuel light plants to relief effort

    Two Oklahoma companies banded together to provide light and fuel for rescue workers working late into the night after the May 20 storms. Within an hour of the storm, employees of Eve's Bit Sales gathered light units from the Hinton store and headed to Moore, where they stayed until 4 ...

  • Oklahoma tornadoes Woman meets the military officer who shared the clothes off his back

    Sandra Adams, 65, reunited with the Oklahoma Air National Guardsman who took the clothes off his back to help her after the May 20 tornado in Moore. She returned his military shirt at their hospital meeting ...

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