A suburban Oklahoma City public school system has reached an agreement with the families of seven children killed in a tornado, ending three years of litigation. The May 20, 2013, tornado leveled large portions of Moore, including Plaza Towers Elementary …
Unprecedented planning by state and local authorities, law enforcement and the insurance industry established what is being called a national model for protecting the public from fly-by-night contractors in the aftermath of a natural disaster. According to the National Insurance …
Two years ago today, an EF 5 tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma, 4.4 miles west of Newcastle. The powerful twister, with wind speeds reaching 210 miles per hour, cleared a path of destruction stretching fourteen miles while on the …
Applications to build storm shelters have spiked a month after a tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma. Moore spokeswoman Deidre Ebrey says officials there have noticed an increase in the number of people applying for storm shelters since the March …
Six-time NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson has partnered with Lowe’s home improvement stores to fund new gyms at three Moore, Okla., schools damaged in last year’s deadly tornado. Johnson joined dozens of store employees Thursday at Highland East Junior High to …
Oklahoma officials are kicking around the idea of instituting “tornado days” in which classes would be called off when the threat of tornadoes is unusually high, but school and weather officials in Kansas think the idea could cause more problems …
The 24 people killed a year ago when a tornado struck Moore, Okla., were honored during a remembrance ceremony followed by a hospital groundbreaking to mark the one-year anniversary of the tornado that also left hundreds injured. Gov. Mary Fallin …
An upcoming report prepared for an engineering society will say that an elementary school destroyed by a tornado at Moore, Okla., last spring was poorly designed and could have protected children better if it had been properly reinforced. Similar construction …
The ballot title for a $500 million state bond issue for school safe rooms was properly rewritten and any suggestion of a Republican conspiracy against the plan is “utter hogwash,” Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office said in court documents …
An organization dedicated to building storm shelters in Oklahoma schools is getting another donation. Moore Supercuts will present a check to ShelterOklahomaSchools.org on Saturday to further the organization’s mission to equip all schools in the state with storm shelters. Several …