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  • Massive tornado devastates Moore Oklahoma 51 confirmed dead

    A massive tornado touched down in Oklahoma, about an hour south of Oklahoma City, on Monday afternoon. There are numerous reports of injured people trapped in ...

  • Security plans updated for big weekend

    INDIANAPOLIS - It will be a bigger Sunday than normal in Indianapolis with the Indy 500 and the Pacers hosting the NBA Eastern Conference finals, but after hosting a Super Bowl, police and Homeland Security officials are prepared. Safety officials met Monday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse to tweak security plans for the weekend. There will be more police on duty than a normal race weekend, although ...

  • Police Person shot on boat ramp

    NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) - Noblesville Police say one person was shot on a boat ramp in Noblesville. The incident occurred around 7:50 p.m. Monday night just off of SR 19 on the boat ramp. Officials say the person's injuries do not appear to be life threatening. Police are searching for the person who may have fired the shots. Officials say the suspect was in a boat and floating down the ...

  • Time for Stephenson to Move On

    Saturday was a party. The biggest game of his life, screams of approval from a sold-out arena, an intense, adoring focus from the national media, and an endless stream of texts clicking into his cell phone. About 190 of them to be semi-exact. But that's all ancient history now for Lance Stephenson. Those 25 points and 10 rebounds he recorded as the Pacers closed out New York might as well ...

  • Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb kills 37

    A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...


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Last Updated on May 20, 9:45 PM EDT
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The Trial [DVD]

The Trial [DVD]

The Stranger is often referred to as Orson Welles' least personal film, and judging by the work itself, that is an apt description. A solid piece of postwar genre work about a Nazi hiding in bucolic small-town America, The Stranger is not unique enough to stand out from the crowd, especially not in the manner that Welles' great masterpieces stand out. As critic James Agree wr ... ...

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  • Missing Indianapolis teenager found safe

    Indianapolis Metro Police are asking for your help in locating 18-year-old Alexis Ricard. Alexis has been diagnosed as mildly mentally handicapped and functions at the level of a 12-year-old child. ...

  • Some kids rescued from rubble at elementary school

    MOORE, Okla. – Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb. An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday after a massive tornado hit the region. Rescue workers lifted children from the rubble before they were passed down a human ...

  • Obama lauds Myanmars progress in meeting with president

    WASHINGTON - President Obama lauded the progress made by Myanmar President Thein Sein’s government to open the political process, and said greater emphasis on human rights will bring the Southeast Asian country more prosperity. Thein Sein’s White House visit Monday was the first of a leader from the country formerly known as Burma in 47 years and comes amid warming relations and U.S. ...

  • Twister tracked path of 1999 tornado

    NEW YORK – Monday’s powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999. The National Weather Service estimated that the storm that struck Moore, Okla., on Monday had wind speeds of up to 200 mph, and was at least a half-mile wide. The 1999 storm had winds clocked at 300 mph, according to the weather service ...

  • Testing starts at ex-park near Ohio cancer cluster

    SCIO, Ohio – Authorities said a house in a small eastern Ohio village was leveled by a large explosion while the family that lived there was at ...

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