Oklahoma City News

The tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the first detailed account of the devastation.

Weeden will return to his home state over the holiday weekend to assist in any way he can in the aftermath of the deadly tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people and destroying more than a thousand homes in the Oklahoma City suburb earlier this week.

Officials in Oklahoma City say an estimate of the number of homes damaged or destroyed by this week's tornado is based in part on an analysis of before-and-after aerial photos.

Having lived most of her life in this Oklahoma City suburb, Barbara Bryen never feared twisters.

Kyle Davis was 100% boy. He loved going with his grandpa to see Monster Trucks, and would hoot and clap whenever one of those giant things would roll over and crush a smaller car.

An Oklahoma City-based travel store chain is donating $3 million to disaster relief funds after deadly tornados ripped through parts of Oklahoma.

UPDATE: 5/22 9:20 p.m. -- The dog, Susie, has since been returned to her rightful owner , Curtis, the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office reported in a Facebook post Wednesday evening.

Her daughter is dead and her 8-year-old grandson is across town in another hospital undergoing surgery for injuries suffered in Monday's tornado.

Viewers glued to TV following Monday's tornado that hit here with the destructive force of an atomic bomb very likely expected to wake up Tuesday to a death and injury toll in the thousands.

Prosecutors have filed first-degree murder, arson and burglary charges against a couple in the April 28 death of a 7-year-old boy left home alone.

It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement.

With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago.

Danny Neal can scratch seeing an EF5 tornado off his list. The Evergreen Park storm chaser came within a mile of the "finger of God" twister before it entered the western section of Moore, OK, on Monday afternoon.

'He calls me big dog... I call him little dog': Neighbors whose joyful tornado reunion was caught in iconic 'hug seen around the world' image reveal their touching bond It has been described as the hug seen around the world - the wonderful moment that Jim Routon discovered his seven year old neighbor Hezekiah Darbon had survived the Oklahoma ... (more)

The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

Of the 24 killed in the EF-5 tornado that decimated Moore, OK, 10 are children - two of which are infants according to a release by the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's Office.

Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing - and it was trying desperately to get in.

A monstrous tornado that ripped through Oklahoma Monday piling cars on top of one another, demolishing an elementary school and killing several adults and children, may owe its power and deadliness partly to a convergence of jets of air, say meteorologists.

From his mother's hallway in a suburb east of Oklahoma City, Flora Vista resident Dan Peter directed his brother and nephew away from the twister's path.