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As good news goes, this would have to do: First thing Tuesday, the medical examiner in Moore, Okla., announced that the death toll had gone down overnight.

Crystal LeDane reacts after hearing the news her neighbor of three years, former West EMS volunteer Bryce Ashley Reed, was ordered held without bond on the charge of possession of a destructive device in West, Texas.

The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in Texas told investigators that the oncoming train appeared to be stationary, and that he didn't notice anything was wrong... The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators the oncoming train ... (more)

The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen.

Today's column expands upon a question from an A-J reader about a choice of trees for our area.

The driver of a parade float involved in a train wreck that killed four war veterans in West Texas told investigators that the oncoming train appeared to be stationary, and that he didn't notice anything was wrong until he saw people jumping from the float, according to documents released Wednesday.

A judge in West Texas has ordered that a mental health evaluation be done for a former paramedic who's accused of possessing bomb-making material.

Harold Simmons, the Dallas billionaire and owner of a West Texas radioactive-waste dump, won yet another tailor-made piece of legislation Tuesday.

A Lincoln "comfort" dog that has been to several national tragedy sites this year is now in Oklahoma to help victims cope with the devastation caused by a massive tornado.

Besides being the place where under-21 Michigan college students cross the border to drink and where your aunts go to watch faded soul singers perform at the casino, Windsor is one of the more important cogs in the auto-industry machine, particularly in Canada.

More than a dozen separate campaigns popped up on crowdfunding site, Fundly, less than 24 hours after the tornado swept through the Oklahoma City suburb, killing at least 24 people, injuring more than 200 and destroying hundreds of homes.

The mother of a 13-year-old West Texas cheerleader found dead in March said Tuesday that since her daughter went missing more than two years ago she had feared the worst, including that the girl was chained and tortured or had fallen victim to human traffickers.

At a time when the headline of the day is a story about the bloody massacres of babies born alive in Gosnell's Clinic, the almost bone jarring contrast of Obama's speech at Planned Parenthood freezes every normal sense of credulity in unbelief.

Though recent storms promised to reset the drought button for a large part of East Texas, the western half of the state will likely see below-normal precipitation from now through August, according to a Texas A&M University climatologist.

Authorities say an Ohio man has been arrested in West Texas after a state trooper found about 50 pounds of cocaine valued at more than $1.6 million hidden in a false compartment of a vehicle.

East Texans should brace today for the possibility of tornado-packing storms like the ones that ripped through Oklahoma on Monday, local meteorologists warned.

The explosion on April 17, 2013, occurred at a facility owned by the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas that was used for the storage and distribution of fertilizers.

A strong storm produced what authorities think was a tornado Monday evening that smashed into the public school complex in Blanket, a small town in the rolling hills southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

A bill that would have dramatically changed the rules for a radioactive waste dump died in the Legislature because of a parliamentary error.

Hailey Darlene Dunn was a cheerleader, saxophonist, on the softball and basketball teams, a doer and a leader.