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
When her father came to pick her up after the tornado, “she was patting him on the back, saying, ‘It’s okay, Dad,’ ” he said. “He was crying,” Addison said. The city of 55,000, about 11 miles south on Interstate 35 from downtown Oklahoma ...

Oklahoma tornado: Search, cleanup continue; rebuilding ahead
State and local officials vowed Tuesday to rebuild this bereft suburb, shattered by a tornado that brought ... nine of whom were children. At an afternoon news conference, officials including Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Moore Mayor Glenn ...

Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24
More than 24 hours after the tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City region with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, emergency workers had pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital. About 240 people were ...

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 ...