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Massive tornado plows through Okla. community

Last updated Monday, May 20, 2013 - 6:05pm

MOORE, Okla. -- A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, a woman walks from a Hobby Lobby Inc., store in Little Rock, Ark. Christian pastors plan to deliver petitions to Hobby Lobby officials in protest of the Oklahoma-based company’s lawsuit challenging health care guidelines that require the coverage of the morning-after pill. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Liberal pastors protest Hobby Lobby on morning-after pill

Tim Talley The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 5:03pm

OKLAHOMA CITY — Liberal Christian groups attempted Thursday to deliver a petition to Hobby Lobby criticizing its challenge to a portion of the new federal health care law, but guards at the company’s headquarters turned them away.

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Wind-whipped Oklahoma wildfires destroy homes

Tim Talley The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, August 4, 2012 - 8:15am

NOBLE, Okla. — The gusty, southerly winds that whipped wildfires through rural woodlands north and south of Oklahoma City started to die down early Saturday, but not before burning dozens of homes.

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An iron gate gate is seen at the Jose Trevino Morales's stables Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Lexington, Okla. On Tuesday, authorities raided the ranch accusing Trevino and others of running a sophisticated money-laundering operation connected to one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless drug cartels. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)

Feds: Horse racing operation tied to drug cartel

Juan Carlos Llorca, Tim Talley The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 5:13pm

RUIDOSO, N.M. -- In the stables at a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico, workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales's stables as the "Zetas' stables" and say they often saw people show up with bags of cash to buy the horses.

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(The Associated Press) Residents Ryshele (left) and Ivanhoe Coleman (center) walk with their daughter Rikki (right) through what is left of Prairie Creek Village, a mobile home community in Slaughterville, Okla., after a tornado struck the area Monday.

5 dead as tornadoes rip through Southern Plains

Tim Talley The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 10, 2010 - 10:16pm

NORMAN, Okla. -- Tornadoes ripped through parts of the Southern Plains on Monday in an outbreak of violent weather that killed five people and injured dozens of others as cars went flying off highways, mobile homes flipped over and baseball-size hail came crashing through windshields.

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Attorney: OKC bombing tapes appear edited

Tim Talley The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 10:20pm

OKLAHOMA CITYâ€” Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.

â€œThe real story is whatâ€™s missing,â€ said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.