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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 ...

  • Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley

    Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...

Movie Review

One False Move

The first ten minutes of "One False Move" feel like any other violent crime film, even bordering on entering the straight-to-video realm, which is ironic because the rest of the film is so sharp and original. In the opening segment, three criminals, Roy (Billy Bob Thornton), Pluto (Michael Beach), and Roy's girlfriend Fantasia (Cynda Williams) disrupt a birthday party by stabbing, shooting or suff ... ...

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  • Moore mayor 5 of 6 missing found alive

    "We'll try to get it passed as soon as I can," Glenn Lewis said. The ordinance would apply to single-family and multifamily homes. At least 24 people, including 10 children, were killed in Monday's mammoth tornado, the state medical examiner's office said. Another 324 people were injured, said Gov. Mary Fallin. Lewis said Wednesday that six people previously unaccounted ...

  • Oh Oklahoma Asking the Hard Questions After Memory Fades

    in Oklahoma , but they were a real threat: In May 1950, the National Weather Service recorded an F-4 about an hour and a half south of Tulsa that killed five people and injured more than 30. I do remember hearing grown-ups talk about them, about how the Sooner State had the bad luck to attract them. My clearer memories are of endless summer days of 100-plus degree heat, when all we wanted to ...

  • Kevin Durant Joins News 9Red Cross Tornado Relief Efforts

    News 9 Sports Director Dean Blevins speaks with Kevin Durant as the NBA star collects donations from people calling a News 9/Red Cross phone ...

  • OHP Driver In Deadly Grand Lake Boat Crash Was Under the Influence

    TULSA, Oklahoma - The man who was driving a speed boat that crashed into an unoccupied, docked houseboat on Grand Lake last week had been drinking before the crash, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The crash on May 14, 2013 killed Rachel Swetnam and Trey Varner. Six other people on board the board ...

  • Collinsville Man Sentenced In Fatal Hit And Run

    A man accused of a fatal hit and run in Owasso in early 2012 has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to the crime. Jedediah Stephan "Jed" Perkey, 32, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident on April 8, 2013. Court records indicate he changed his plea from not guilty to guilty without a deal with ...

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