Oklahoma
Obama declares major disaster in Oklahoma
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, killing dozens and flattening entire neighborhoods. Obama has ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. Individuals and business owners affected by ...
Toby Keith says Okla. hometown is 'strong'
Country music performer Toby Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado. Keith issued a statement saying Monday's tornado in Moore, Okla., devastated the community in which he grew up. The city has embraced Keith's celebrity and his name is ...
Deadliest US tornadoes since 1900
A list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900: — 695 deaths. March 18, 1925, in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. — 216 deaths. April 5, 1936, in Tupelo, Miss. — 203 deaths. April 6, 1936, in Gainesville, Ga. — 181 deaths. April 9, 1947, in Woodward, ...
Scenes of devastation from Oklahoma town
The city of Moore, Okla., was hit by a mile-wide tornado on Monday afternoon.
White House promises help after Oklahoma tornado
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is assuring Oklahoma's governor that the Obama administration will provide all possible help to the state after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs. White House officials said Monday that Napolitano called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to tell her that President Barack Obama ...
NWS: Okla. tornado had winds up to 200 mph
The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., had wind speeds up to 200 mph. The weather service's preliminary classification of Monday afternoon's tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale. Authorities say emergency crews are working to rescue people trapped in Moore, which is southwest ...
Award goes to Pakistani girl shot by Taliban
A Pakistani human rights activist who founded an all-girls school said the Taliban was "more afraid of the books than bombs" as he and his 15-year-old daughter, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban late last year, were honored Monday at the memorial for Oklahoma City bombing victims. Ziauddin ...
Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing in WikiLeaks case
Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website. A military judge, Col. Denise Lind, has ordered what prosecutors say is an unprecedented closed hearing Wednesday at Fort Meade to ...
Correction: In Cold Blood-Records story
In a story April 23 about a legal dispute over investigation materials from the 1959 murder case in Kansas that inspired the book "In Cold Blood, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of a Seattle forensic psychiatrist in one of three references to him. The correct spelling is Adler, ...
Woody Guthrie Center opens Saturday in Tulsa
Supporters of folk singer Woody Guthrie say the opening of a center chronicling his storied life and career is long overdue in his native state of Oklahoma. The 12,000-square-foot Woody Guthrie Center opens Saturday afternoon in Tulsa. It features Oklahoma's only permanent exhibit on the Dust Bowl and also includes ...
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