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Associated Press Cars damaged by a tornado sit in a parking lot Friday at Canadian Valley Technical Center on State Highway 66, west of Banner Road in El Reno, Okla.
Frightened residents flee tornadoes
OKLAHOMA CITY — It’s a warning as familiar as a daily prayer for Tornado Alley residents: When a twister approaches, take shelter in a basement or low-level interior room or closet, away from windo...
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Angel evokes tragedies at service for teenager
WARWICK, N.Y. — After Joseph and Betty Ginley’s firefighter son was killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, they found some solace in the tall steel angels crafted as memorials by ...
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TV meteorologist injured in tornado
NEW YORK — The next time meteorologist Mike Bettes talks about the power of tornadoes on The Weather Channel, he can speak from personal experience. Bettes was nursing minor injuries Saturday, i...
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Audio: Bus driver defied gunman in bunker drama
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — When a gunman barged onto Charles Poland’s school bus and demanded that he turn over young passengers, the driver simply said no. “Sorry, you’re going to have to shoot me,” ...
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Associated Press Rhode Island State Rep. Frank Ferri stands Wednesday inside the Statehouse in Providence, R.I. A faithful member of his Catholic church choir for decades, the openly gay state representative led the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in what may be the most Catholic state in the nation's most Catholic region.
Catholic sway wanes amid gay marriage fight
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Frank Ferri made peace with God years ago. He defeated the Roman Catholic Church just last month. The openly gay state representative led the fight to legalize same-sex marria...
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Associated Press Actress Jean Stapleton answers a question from a Soviet artistin 1983 at a U.S.-Soviet roundtable discussion of mutual concerns. From left are actors Earle Hyman, Edith Behr, Stapleton and Barbara Colton.
Beloved TV icon Jean Stapleton dies
NEW YORK — Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker’s far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV’s groundbreaking 1970s comedy “All in the Family,” has died...
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Associated Press Team Black members -- from left, Amelia Wilson, Nathan Woody and Alyssa Avery -- bprepare their aircraft for flight during SpeedFest III in April at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla.
Reality catches up with sci-fi
TULSA, Okla. — At the time it premiered, “Twister” put forth a fantastical science fiction idea: Release probes into a storm in order to figure out which tornadoes could develop into killers. It...
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Alcoholic drinks may soon attach nutritional labels
WASHINGTON — Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there. The Treasury Department, which regulates alcoh...
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Obama: Student loans hike similar to $1,000 tax increase
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to prevent student loan rates from doubling in a month, prompting a fight with House Republicans who accused him of playing politics ins...
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Associated Press A tornado touches down Friday near El Reno, Okla., causing damage to structures and injuring travelers on Interstate 40.
Fatalities occur as broad storm hits interstate, suburbs
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs on Friday, killing a mother and baby and crumbling cars and tractor-trailers along a major interstate....
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