Oklahoma News

The twister that devastated Moore, Okla., was the 74th presidential disaster declared in the Sooner state in the past 60 years.

Tax Cut: Lawmakers adopted legislation that reduces the state's top income rate from 5.25% to 5% beginning Jan.

The Oklahoma Senate has approved a bill to provide various tax breaks to property and vehicle owners who suffered losses in Monday's tornado that tore through Moore and left 24 people dead.

In deeply religious Moore, Oklahoma, God and prayer are frequently mentioned as sources of strength for residents reeling from the fourth damaging tornado in 15 years.

Sen. Tom Coburn's premature insistence that any disaster relief funding for his home state after this week's devastating tornadoes be offset has kicked off a big fight in the GOP.

This May 21, 2013 photo released by NBC shows married singers Miranda Lambert, left, and Blake Shelton performing an acoustic version of the hit "Over You" during a broadcast of the singing competition series, "The Voice," in Los Angeles.

For the three native Oklahomans, it came in the form of a 1.3-mile wide EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb.

President Barack Obama greets Gov. Dannel Malloy during his arrival at the start of an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

This combination of Associated Pressfile file photos shows left, a neighborhood in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, May 4, 1999, after a tornado flattened many houses and buildings in central Oklahoma, and right, flattened houses in Moore on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

As a helicopter pilot for Los Angeles's KCAL-TV, Jim Gardner had flown over deadly mudslides and earthquakes, covered car chases and was shot at by snipers during the L.A. riots.

With a damp paper towel and a little elbow grease, Becky Haberly is working to reunite thousands of memories with their owners after a deadly tornado scattered photos and papers across this city.

St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford, an Oklahoma native, is raising money for disaster relief in his home state.

Behind her were ruins, a tangled mess where structures once stood. Cradled in her arms, the mother's 19-month-old son played with a snatched microphone, unfazed by the chaos swirling around him.

You knew this was coming: Peter King, who fought hard for Superstorm Sandy aid for his home state of New York, thinks there's "a lot of hypocrisy" when it comes to lawmakers who opposed Sandy aid but are in favor of tornado aid.

Reba McEntire has physically been in Cape Town, South Africa, but her heart has been with those suffering in her home state of Oklahoma.

Kelly Nichols ran up to the front door of Plaza Towers Elementary to retrieve her 9-year-old son, Ethan, and had to stop to catch her breath: the school's front glass facade had been pulverized, the roof was gone, walls had been punched in, and a car lay flipped inside the main hallway.

Two 19-year-old Oklahoma men who took cover in a cellar during a deadly tornado were able to use their cellphones to get video of the twister as it passed over the home.

The FBI says a 37-year-old man has been arrested following last week's discovery in Washington state of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

Just hours after a tornado ripped through Cleveland County in Oklahoma, The Star called this community to action in support of the ravaged region with the same name half a country away.

The devastating tornado that rocked Oklahoma on Monday leaves many wondering how to help - even from hundreds and hundreds of miles away in metro Atlanta.