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1 hr ago | KOCO-TV Oklahoma City

Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million

The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of homes.

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Fri May 24, 2013

WIBW-TV Topeka

Governor Brownback Issues Order To Aid In Storm Clean-Up In Oklahoma

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback issued an executive order Friday to grant temporary relief from motor carrier rules and regulations for those helping with state and local storm clean-up in Oklahoma hit by tornados on May 18th.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Sam Brownback

The Waterloo Region Record

'The bull's-eye for awful tornadoes': Oklahoma gets an outsized share of natural disasters

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

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Related Topix: Oklahoma Government, Moore, OK, FEMA, US News, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Oklahoma County, OK

KTUL-TV Tulsa

Major accomplishments of 2013 Oklahoma Legislature

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Mary Fallin, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mary Fallin, US Governors

KTUL-TV Tulsa

Okla. Legislature OKs tax breaks for storm victims

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.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma Government

Reuters

In deeply religious Oklahoma, prayer brings solace after tornado

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.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Life, Veteran Affairs, Mary Fallin, US Governors

Daily Kos

Oklahoma tornado kicks off GOP fight over disaster relief

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.

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Related Topix: Tom Coburn, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Oklahoma Government, Tornado, Natural Disasters, Peter King, US House of Representatives

SFGate

Shelton, Underwood coming to aid of Oklahomans

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.

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Related Topix: The Voice, Entertainment, Television, Miranda Lambert, Country, Moore, OK

Thu May 23, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Browns' Weeden sees his homefolk struggle in Oklahoma

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.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Oklahoma City, OK, Mustang, OK, Edmond, OK

The York Daily Record

A growing role for the president: America's consoler in chief

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, George Bush

SavannahNow

Latest deadly tornado tests Oklahoma town's mettle

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.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Moore, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, US Military, US Air Force, Tinker Air Force Base

94.3 WSC

'We aren't daredevils': Oklahoma's storm chasers in the sky

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.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma Government, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, US Military, US Army, Tornado, Natural Disasters

Daily World

Volunteers clean up historic cemetery after tornado

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.

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NewsOK.com

Oklahoma tornadoes: Rams quarterback Sam Bradford leading aid effort

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

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Local NEWS 8

This Oklahoma atheist isn't thanking the Lord

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.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma Government

WAAX-AM Gadsden

NY Rep to Okla. Senator: I'll Overlook Your Hypocrisy

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Peter King, US House of Representatives, Republican, Oklahoma Government

Wed May 22, 2013

KVIA-TV El Paso

Okla. celebs react to tornado devastation

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

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, World News, South Africa, Moore, OK, Castle, OK, Pop/Rock, Hanson, Entertainment

The Daily News Journal

Oklahoma tornado rips away safety of school

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.

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Related Topix: Weather

San Bernardino County Sun

Okla. men get video of deadly tornado overhead

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.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma Government

WLNE-TV Providence

FBI: Arrest made in Wash. ricin letter scare

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.

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News, Train Disaster

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