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Two die after wrecks on Oklahoma roads
About 4:45 a.m., Janes died in a crash on a McCurtain County road south of town, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. He was pronounced dead at the scene from massive injuries. Jones was driving a pickup westbound when he struck a tree that was partially in the roadway. He lost control of the pickup and hit another tree. He was not wearing a seat ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes U.S. Homeland Security secretary tours storm damage in Moore
Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would be in the Oklahoma City area throughout the recovery from Monday's tornado. Napolitano was in Oklahoma on Wednesday to view tornado damage with Oklahoma Gov. Mary ...
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Joplin survivor helps victims of Oklahoma tornado
WTOC spoke to a Joplin tornado survivor who has since moved to Effingham County. She says instead of focusing on the past, she is trying to help the victims of the Oklahoma ...
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Oklahoma couple gave many shelter from the storm
Shane Keyser Relieved to see her aunt for the first time since the storm and overwhelmed by the devastation, Debbie Davis (left) hugged Linda Woods on Wednesday in Moore, Okla. Woods, her husband, Jerry, and about 20 others crowded in the Woodses’ 12-person storm shelter, seen at right, when a tornado hit ...
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Gov. Fallin on Obama’s visit ‘We hope it brings encouragement’
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin talks to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell about President Obama's upcoming visit and the road to recovery in Moore, Oklahoma after the massive tornado that left at least 24 ...
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Caught on camera US tornado devastates Oklahoma suburb
Moore, Oklahoma: Two young men who took cover in a cellar during this week's deadly tornado in Oklahoma used their cellphones to get video as it roared overhead.Charles Gafford was at the home of friend Alex Rodriguez as the tornado struck Monday.Shot through an opening in the overhead door, the video shows debris, including tree limbs and a tire, flying past. The video has attracted more ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Health Risks May Lie In The Rubble
Susan Kates salvages items from a friend's tornado-ravaged home Wednesday in Moore, Okla., where experts warn of health risks in the cleanup. (AP/Charlie ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Teens Search For Remains Of Home Amid The Ruins
MOORE, Okla. -- Around 10 a.m. Wednesday, two days after the tornado, Darius Joseph and his friend Brandon Dick set out for the disaster zone that used to be their neighborhood to see what they could salvage from the rubble. Their eyes searched for contours of geography they could place, some shape they knew. But all they could see, sprawled in every direction, were piles of bricks, beams, ...
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Oklahoma City Thunder More low-post scoring needed
Charles Barkley long has said the Thunder won't win a title until it gets more low-post scoring. Says the Thunder relies on too many jumpshots. I'd say Chuck is half right. The Thunder could use more low-post scoring. But the Thunder doesn't necessarily rely on too many jumpers. The Thunder this season ranked 13th in the NBA in points in the paint, 41.8 per game. That's not ...
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List of places where you can donate items in Shawnee
Lakeview Christian Church 15301 Highway 102 Shawnee *** New Hope Baptist Church 37496 New Hope Road *** Bethel Acres Community Center 18101 Bethel Road *** Dale Public Schools -- Main Office 300 Smith Avenue *** Shawnee Expo Center 1700 W. ...
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Oklahoma tornado wreaks havoc in US
Sarah Dick reads a Doctor Seuss book to her three-year-old daughter Jadyn at the driveway of her tornado-destroyed house in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma May 22, 2013. Rescue workers with sniffer dogs picked through the ruins on Wednesday to ensure no survivors remained buried after a deadly tornado left thousands homeless and trying to salvage what was left of their belongings. ...
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Edmonton Oilers to face Dallas Stars in Oklahoma City in Sept. 27 NHL pre-season game
Dallas Stars' Eric Nystrom, 24, is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk, 40, as Ryan Whitney, 6, defends during first period NHL hockey action in Edmonton on Feb. 6, ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Roulette Is Part Of Life
If you live in this part of Oklahoma you are playing tornado roulette. That much was clear from one street we visited. On one side most houses had sustained very little damage; on the other side there was complete devastation. The capricious physics of tornadoes adds cruelty to the misfortunes of those who have lost everything. Like Rob and Jennifer Voss, picking through the remains ...
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The Lede Families Honor Young Victims of Oklahoma Tornado
In her new profile picture on Facebook, Kristi Conatzer is standing next to her daughter, Emily, 9, who was among the seven children killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School when a tornado tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday. Writing ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Tornado damage could exceed $2 billion
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said insured losses from the tornado that hit Moore, south Oklahoma City and Newcastle on Monday could surpass $2 ...
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News Channel 4 viewers step up to the plate
OKLAHOMA CITY – Ever since Tuesday morning, cars have been lining up outside KFOR studios. It's been an overwhelming outpouring of cash donations and supplies. Sherri Rector brought t-shirts, paper towels and bottled water. "This is the Oklahoma standard. This is what we do," she said. "We are strong. We will recover." TMT trucking donated the big rig. Our ...
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Crews endanger own lives to save tiniest victims
MOORE, Okla. – In times of crisis, you won’t find many people more extraordinary than Shannon Workman. Monday night, she became the ';Paul Revere'; of natural disasters. Workman said, ';We’re going to get hit, itwas right there.'; Shannon had come to ';A Step Above Learning Center'; to retrieve her 3-year-old son. She said, ';They were ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Love for Oklahoma generates big donation
Erin and Ryan Edwards, of Tulsa, watched Monday's tornadoes tear through the state in shock as did most Oklahomans. "I wish there was something we could do to help," Erin Edwards said to her husband that ...
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Ex-Oklahoma County jail officer two others charged in alleged plot to smuggle contraband
A former detention officer is behind bars, accused of smuggling drugs and cellphones inside the Oklahoma County jail with the help of an inmate's girlfriend, court records ...
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Immediate Needs Future Safety Provisions
As Oklahomans affected by the monster tornado begin cleanup efforts, Judy Woodruff talks with Gov. Mary Fallin about the most essential needs of survivors who have lost homes or loved ones, how federal agencies are assisting in the recovery and what should be done in the future to ensure that residents have safe ...
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Oklahomans Cope With Loss Tally Costs as Rescue Effort Shifts to Recovery
GWEN IFILL: The numbers piled up today in Moore, Okla., two days after the town was ravaged by a tornado. As authorities totaled the financial costs, residents coped with devastating loss, tallying the damages close to ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes A cemetery cleanup to remember long past Memorial Day
"EVERBODY IS A PART OF MOORE" -- When this city asked for help repairing its tornado-damaged cemetery, it unleashed days of pent-up desire to help and 1,000 volunteers grateful to make a ...
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Time reporter talks about article on Okla. tornadoes
The Oklahoma tornadoes have made national news and now thestorms are on the cover of Time. Linda Cavanaugh talked to Time reporter Zeke Miller who wrote the ...
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Canine companions help in healing after tornadoes
MOORE, Okla. – Residents across Oklahoma are recovering in hospitals after the storms earlier this week. Doctors and medicine are helping in the healing along with a little ';four-legged'; penicillin. Therapy dogs are bringing the first smiles to these faces since the ...
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Father and son survive Moore tornado arm in arm
MOORE, Okla. – A father and son said they survived the Moore tornado because they were together. The pair said they rode out the storm in their bathroom, huddled together, arm in arm. They said that is the only reason they are here ...
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Oklahoma's massively ambitious transport plan for next eight years
The Oklahoma Department of Transport has adopted a massive transport improvement plan that will cost the state $4.8 billion over the next eight years and will incorporate around 1,700 individual project around the state aimed at making Oklahoma’s roads, bridges and highways safer and better to drive on.
Oklahoma has around 12,000 miles of highways and many more thousands of miles of roadway and streets, maintaining this massive expanse of tarmac is an ongoing process and in recent years the Department of Transport acknowledged that it has fallen behind. Read more
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