Drama as Alarm Sirens Wailed; Time Reveals Lower Death Toll From Tornado
Then the sirens started to wail. Claire Gossett’s teacher hurried the class into the hallway, then into a bathroom as a tornado that was more than a mile wide drew closer. Claire, 11, crammed into a stall with six other girls. They held onto ...

Residents of Oklahoma City suburb begin to assess severity of tornado damage
MOORE, Okla. — Amid great destruction, with at least two dozen people dead — including nine children — the residents here began to assess the severity of their calamity Tuesday after their third major tornado in 14 years, a staggering run of weather ...

Updates on the powerful Oklahoma tornado and its aftermath
[Updated at 10:01 p.m. ET] Teacher Waynel Mayes ... closed for the rest of the year, school district spokeswoman Anna Trowbridge told CNN. The last day of school was supposed to be Thursday. [Updated at 9:13 p.m. ET] Cassandra Jenkins told ...

FBI agents killed in training exercises belonged to elite hostage rescue team
They were among the elite of the elite, members of the FBI’s paramilitary counterterrorism Hostage Rescue Team traveling the globe to respond to fast- developing criminal threats. The agents who died Friday off the coast of Virginia Beach were ...

Carmelo Anthony remains optimistic, but Knicks future is bleak
The Knicks aren’t good enough to make it up the Canyon of Heroes, not by a confetti-filled mile of lower Broadway. So in lieu of a parade, all they can give you at the end of another championship-less season is a long and painfully slow procession of ...

Family and friends of Andrea Rebello mourn after Hofstra hostage tragedy
People arrive for a wake for Andrea Rebello, 21, at the Coffey Funeral Home on Tuesday in Tarrytown, N.Y. Rebello, of Tarrytown, was shot to death by a Nassau County police officer who responded to a robbery at her off-campus home in Uniondale. Stifled ...