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MOORE, Okla. -- A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.

The first of the funerals, for a 9-year-old girl killed at a Moore elementary school that took a direct hit in Monday's storm, was scheduled for Thursday morning. A family photo showed the girl, Antonia Candelaria, beaming with a big smile and wearing a white sun hat.

SYRACUSE — Police have arrested six people with a live sex show at a Syracuse movie theater.

On Wednesday Syracuse Police Department received a tip from a confidential informant that a live sex show was scheduled to take place after midnight on Thursday, at the Syracuse 6 Movie Theater located at 2428 West 1700 South in Syracuse.

OGDEN — A judge has denied a defense challenge to the pot search warrant that led to the armed shootout at Matthew David Stewart’s home that injured six and left a narcotics officer dead.

The motion attacked the credibility of the members of the Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force who forcibly entered Stewart’s Ogden home with guns drawn Jan. 4, 2012, to serve the warrant authorized by a judge as a “knock and announce” warrant. Stewart is accused of shooting six officers, Jared Francom fatally, and was himself wounded. He faces the death penalty for Francom’s death.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said.

Ibragim Todashev's Chechen roots and mixed martial arts background mirror that of Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old Boston bombing suspect killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 terrorist attack. The two also had lived in the Boston area.

WELLSVILLE — A 53-year-old Wellsville man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a child.

Progressivism thrives best when truth is suppressed, but suppressed truth is still truth. You can try to sink it, shred it, cover it and destroy it, but truth eventually rises to the surface. Truth floats. Always.

Crews working in Texas said goodbye to a railroad bridge near the Colorado River May 20.

The bridge, with struts and rails ablaze, went out with a flourish when it collapsed like dominoes.

YouTube user Jamie Smart did not specify how long the bridge had been burning or if the fire was set intentionally, but one user theorized in the comments: "Well, that's what you get for putting a DeLorean on train tracks and accelerate to 88 mph."