Local News
A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph.
The streets are dark, the power is out, and the National Guard is patrolling this Oklahoma City suburb on Monday night as the community reels from the devastating tornado that killed at least 51 people.
CNN iReporter Michael Welch used his cell phone to capture these dramatic images of the massive and deadly tornado that hit an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday afternoon.
On Monday night, many people in Oklahoma weren't sure where their loved ones were following the tornado in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. Jason Wheeler looks at the story from the Web's point of...
This aerial footage from KFOR shows an elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma that was destroyed by a direct hit from a mile-wide tornado on Monday afternoon.
Stanley Wilson fought fires nearly 30 years, most recently at Station 53 on John West Boulevard in East Dallas. His job was to serve, but friends say that was also his mission in life. He was a quiet servant to all.
'He's a hero,' said Mayor Mike Rawlings of Stanley Wilson, who was killed battling a fire Monday morning. 'And as I told his boys, they should be very proud.'
Search for two trained Macaws, swept away by high winds from the Wings of Wonder show at the Summer Adventures in Fair Park.
National News
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers were expected to climb, officials said Tuesday....
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community....
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too late....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday....
The devastating tornado that swept through Oklahoma turned houses into matchsticks and sent parents and teachers running to pull children from the wreckage of an elementary school in the eye of the storm. At least 51 people were killed by the 200-mph storm and dozens of homes destroyed. The toll was expected to rise. Here are images from the aftermath :...
PHOENIX (AP) -- When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial one more time, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed than spend the rest of her life in prison....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue Service, the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier....
