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All rights reserved.Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria's civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists said Monday./article.aspx/Hezbollah_steps_up_role_in_Syrian_civil_war/20130521_13_A7_CUTLIN451567?rss_lnk=1Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:55:36 CDTIraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and .../article.aspx/Attacks_in_Iraq_kill_at_least_95/20130521_13_A7_ULNSnI397429?rss_lnk=1SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:54:55 CDTPresident Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country on its sometimes difficult path to .../article.aspx/Myanmar_leader_makes_landmark_White_House_visit/20130521_13_A7_CUTLIN209825?rss_lnk=1MATTHEW PENNINGTON & NEDRA PICKLER Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:54:10 CDTRay Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors, has died. He was 74./article.aspx/Manzarek_keyboardist_for_The_Doors_passes_away_at_74/20130521_11_A11_ULNSbM836462?rss_lnk=1Wire ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 06:51:52 CDTMeeting Warren Buffett was exciting, but 10-year-old Matthew Meyer said winning $5,000 and 10 shares of stock in Buffett's company made Monday the best day of his life./article.aspx/Warren_Buffett_gives_young_entrepreneurs_10_shares/20130521_13_A11_OMAHAN813911?rss_lnk=1JOSH FUNK Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:50:37 CDTAntonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he's playing couldn't be happier./article.aspx/Chilean_miner_happy_to_be_played_by_Antonio_Banderas/20130521_13_A11_CUTLIN871064?rss_lnk=1LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:50:12 CDTOklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt sought an execution date Monday for a death-row inmate whose brutal Tulsa crime went unsolved for nearly two decades./article.aspx/Execution_date_sought_for_Oklahoma_death_row_inmate/20130521_11_A12_CUTLIN453204?rss_lnk=1CHRIS CASTEEL NewsOK.com & BILL BRAUN World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 06:49:26 CDTWitnesses told police a black SUV was driving erratically and passed a silver Toyota 4Runner using the center turn lane and inside shoulder of U.S. 75 just after noon Sunday./article.aspx/Crash_in_Glenpool_injures_6_people_including_4_kids/20130521_298_0_GLENPO963573?rss_lnk=1AMANDA BLAND World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 06:48:22 CDTAn Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights, including to a town that reported traces of fallen ash./article.aspx/Alaska_volcanos_ash_prompts_flight_cancellations/20130521_13_A12_CUTLIN800029?rss_lnk=1RACHEL D'ORO Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:48:02 CDTA van carrying 11 men returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times Monday, killing five of them and sending six others to hospitals, .../article.aspx/5_killed_six_injured_in_crash_in_Illinois_van_coming/20130521_13_A12_STLOUI13667?rss_lnk=1JIM SUHR Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 06:47:32 CDTLincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie counties are named in the declaration as well as Cleveland County, where more than 20 schoolchildren are missing and feared dead from a Moore elementary sch .../article.aspx/Federal_disaster_declared_in_five_Oklahoma_counties/20130521_298_0_PeietB113028?rss_lnk=1MICHAEL OVERALL and AMANDA BLAND World Staff WritersTue, 21 May 2013 06:46:17 CDTPresident Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that .../article.aspx/President_Obama_to_speak_on_Oklahoma_disaster/20130521_100_0_WASHIN299544?rss_lnk=1AP Wire ServiceTue, 21 May 2013 06:44:39 CDTGov. Mary Fallin signed a bill on Monday setting a $7.1 billion state budget for fiscal year 2014./article.aspx/Gov_Fallin_approves_71_billion_state_budget/20130521_504_A14_OKLAHO514737?rss_lnk=1BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol BureauTue, 21 May 2013 06:40:34 CDTA bill that would channel $40 million to the mothballed American Indian Cultural Center made it through a House of Representatives committee Monday, but a vote on a similar bill for the proposed OK POP .../article.aspx/Indian_cultural_center_funding_advances_OK_POP_museum/20130521_11_A14_OKLAHO453087?rss_lnk=1RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 06:39:01 CDTA Tulsan was sentenced Monday to 41 years in prison for crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old girl who was struck by gunfire./article.aspx/Local_State_briefs/20130521_11_A12_CUTLIN840276?rss_lnk=1Staff Reports and Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 05:38:47 CDTASKED/article.aspx/Divorces/20130521_57_A10_hAsked20193?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:30:48 CDT(Tulsans unless indicated)/article.aspx/Marriages/20130521_60_A10_Tulsan21013?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:30:20 CDT(Tulsans unless indicated)/article.aspx/Births_5212013/20130521_55_A10_Tulsan436190?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:30:01 CDT Afghanistan: As of Monday, at least 2,085 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according to an Associated Press count./article.aspx/Daily_US_Casualties/20130521_11_A7_bAfgha477225?rss_lnk=1Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 05:27:47 CDTCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown says he doesn't know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns./article.aspx/News_briefs/20130521_11_A7_CUTLIN459561?rss_lnk=1Wire ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:26:13 CDTArkansas' state treasurer was accused Monday of taking at least $36,000 in cash - sometimes stashed in a pie box - from a broker who later came to manage a large share of the state's $3.3 billion stock .../article.aspx/Nation_Briefs/20130521_11_A3_ULNSug65354?rss_lnk=1Wire ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:25:09 CDTWhite House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack .../article.aspx/More_Obama_aides_knew_of_IRS_audit_Obama_not_told/20130521_13_A3_CUTLIN498586?rss_lnk=1JULIE PACE & CHARLES BABINGTON Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 05:24:14 CDTI think it is a patriotic duty that I ought to perform, or somebody ought to perform every once in a while, and let the people of this country know who is Vice-President...' - April 27, 1930/article.aspx/Will_Rogers_Says/20130521_11_A2_hntiar232758?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:17:50 CDTThe Tulsa Children’s Museum Discovery Lab opens to the public this weekend, with events scheduled from Saturday through Monday for the grand opening celebration./article.aspx/Childrens_museum_awaits_opening/20130521_11_A2_TeTlaC199618?rss_lnk=1NOUR HABIB World Scene WriterTue, 21 May 2013 05:16:01 CDTPrompted by a financial crisis, deadly riots that killed at least 500 and demonstrations by thousands, Indonesian President Suharto stepped down after 32 years as head of the world's fourth most populous .../article.aspx/Way_back_when_Today_in_history/20130521_11_A2_CUTLIN222205?rss_lnk=1GENE CURTISTue, 21 May 2013 05:09:32 CDTA story in today’s Business section reports that disaster drills will take place atTulsa International Airport today./article.aspx/Corrections_clarifications/20130521_11_A2_ulliAs60893?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 05:08:59 CDTIn a drizzle under hastily erected bright lights, dozens of emergency workers searched into the night Monday for the missing children at the flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School. Related .../article.aspx/Hope_for_survivors_fades_at_ruined_school/20130521_100_A1_MOOREI815191?rss_lnk=1ANDREW KNITTLE & ZEKE CAMPFIELD NewsOK.comTue, 21 May 2013 04:46:39 CDTWith fresh storm clouds building on the horizon, 79-year-old Rose Marie Blackwell stuffed a family photo album into a plastic bag Monday. Related Stories /article.aspx/Victims_of_tornadoes_in_Shawnee_and_Carney_Okla_assess/20130521_11_A1_CUTLIN909638?rss_lnk=1MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 04:45:36 CDTA powerful tornado roared through Moore and south Oklahoma City on Monday, killing at least 51 people and leaving rescue workers frantically searching for survivors at the devastated Plaza Towers Elementary .../article.aspx/51_killed_including_20_children_in_Moore_tornado/20130521_11_A1_CUTLIN32449?rss_lnk=1RANDY ELLIS NewsOK.comTue, 21 May 2013 04:41:54 CDTMultiple tornadoes broke out across the state Monday, as was forecast by the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman. Here's a look at how the day unfolded./article.aspx/Tornado_Outbreak_Mondays_severe_weather/20130521_11_A6_CUTLIN374447?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsTue, 21 May 2013 04:40:21 CDTTornadoes that reportedly cut a path north of Tulsa on Monday hit mostly rural areas, several county officials said./article.aspx/Minor_tornado_damage_reported_in_rural_areas_north/20130521_11_A4_Tornad14706?rss_lnk=1JERRY WOFFORD & JARREL WADE World Staff WritersTue, 21 May 2013 04:36:19 CDTSunday's National Weather Service preliminary storm report indicated six confirmed tornadoes touched ground in Oklahoma, but atmospheric conditions had the storms weakening before they could inflict damage .../article.aspx/Humidity_causes_storms_to_fade_over_Tulsa/20130521_11_A4_Sunday455994?rss_lnk=1SAMANTHA VICENT World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 04:35:25 CDTDebris from the Monday afternoon tornado in Moore fell from the sky in the Tulsa area, more than 120 miles away, according to the National Weather Service's Tulsa office./article.aspx/Tornado_debris_found_in_Tulsa/20130521_11_A4_Debris726312?rss_lnk=1SAMANTHA VICENT & KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff WritersTue, 21 May 2013 04:34:27 CDTDespite the best technology the scientists have to offer, the location of the start of a tornado can't be predicted./article.aspx/Jay_Cronley_Tornadoes_arent_so_thrilling_when_theyre/20130521_11_A9_Despit959817?rss_lnk=1JAY CRONLEY World Staff ColumnistTue, 21 May 2013 03:36:28 CDTA voter has filed a legal challenge to last week’s unofficial renewal of a Rogers County sales tax, alleging the public wasn’t properly notified./article.aspx/Resident_files_legal_challenge_to_Rogers_County_sales/20130521_11_A9_CLAREM634908?rss_lnk=1RHETT MORGAN World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 03:35:28 CDTOklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon pulled the plug Monday on Gov. Mary Fallin's plans to save the Insure Oklahoma program, which provides health care for working poor Oklahomans./article.aspx/House_Speaker_derails_Fallins_plan_to_save_Insure_Oklahoma/20130521_11_A9_CUTLIN717327?rss_lnk=1WAYNE GREENE World Senior WriterTue, 21 May 2013 03:29:39 CDTPoverty rates in suburban areas have seen a rapid increase since 2000, in many cases outpacing the increases in cities, according to a new book from the Brookings Institute./article.aspx/Poverty_rising_faster_in_suburbs_than_in_Tulsa/20130521_11_A9_CUTLIN499911?rss_lnk=1MIKE AVERILL World Staff WriterTue, 21 May 2013 03:24:19 CDTRescue workers are searching the rubble of a collapsed school for two dozen more students./article.aspx/Moore_tornado_At_least_20_children_among_the_dead_2/20130520_11_0_MOOREA53131?rss_lnk=1MICHAEL B. MAROIS and BRIAN K. SULLIVAN Bloomberg NewsTue, 21 May 2013 00:50:21 CDTYou can vote for Muskogee's country duo on 'The Voice' by calling 1-855-864-2303./article.aspx/Muskogees_Swon_Brothers_urge_prayers_for_Oklahoma/20130521_11_0_TheSwo681523?rss_lnk=1RITA SHERROW World Scene WriterTue, 21 May 2013 00:24:00 CDTThe death toll is expected to rise, officials said. The tornado had winds up to 200 mph, the National Weather Service said./article.aspx/Medical_Examiner_51_killed_in_tornado_that_swept_through/20130520_11_0_MOOREA719424?rss_lnk=1Associated PressTue, 21 May 2013 00:15:00 CDTIndividuals in Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie counties can qualify for help./article.aspx/Oklahoma_to_get_federal_disaster_aid/20130520_11_0_WASHIN934061?rss_lnk=1STAFF REPORTSMon, 20 May 2013 23:46:07 CDTWe continue to update the story as Oklahomans react. PHOTO GALLERY: View all .../article.aspx/Photos_video_and_reaction_to_todays_storms/20130520_298_0_Wevepu205954?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsMon, 20 May 2013 21:00:15 CDTA trained spotter reported a tornado about 6:30 p.m. 8 miles south of Quapaw in Ottawa County, according to the National Weather Service./article.aspx/Tornadoes_in_NE_Oklahoma_hit_rural_areas_no_injuries/20130520_12_0_Tornad615781?rss_lnk=1JERRY WOFFORD and JARREL WADE World Staff WritersMon, 20 May 2013 19:19:02 CDT Update 7:10 p.m.: The severe weather threat has diminished for much of northeastern Oklahoma. A line of severe weather continues to push east into Arkansas and Missouri/article.aspx/Severe_weather_threat_diminishing_for_northeast_Oklahoma/20130520_100_0_Oklaho159188?rss_lnk=1JERRY WOFFORD World Staff WriterMon, 20 May 2013 19:10:55 CDTRescue workers lifted children from the rubble before they were passed down a human chain and taken to a triage center./article.aspx/Kids_rescued_from_rubble_at_Moore_elementary/20130520_12_0_MOORES113379?rss_lnk=1Associated PressMon, 20 May 2013 18:50:18 CDTAt least two people have died, 39 have been injured and more than 200 homes have been damaged or destroyed./article.aspx/Governor_tours_tornado_ravaged_Shawnee_area/20130520_100_0_SHAWNE17361?rss_lnk=1MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff WriterMon, 20 May 2013 16:41:54 CDTThe Tulsa school board meeting was set for 6:30 p.m. Monday./article.aspx/Tulsa_school_board_meeting_canceled/20130520_332_0_TheTul687224?rss_lnk=1Staff ReportsMon, 20 May 2013 16:36:27 CDT“It is unfortunate these Oklahomans will be without health insurance due to President (Barack) Obama’s policies, despite the guarantees that everyone would be covered,” Shannon said in a prepared stat .../article.aspx/House_speaker_wont_save_Insure_Oklahoma/20130520_504_0_OKLAHO150143?rss_lnk=1WAYNE GREENE World Senior WriterMon, 20 May 2013 16:23:36 CDTThe students were kept late because of the severe weather./article.aspx/Oklahoma_City_public_schools_now_dismissing_students/20130520_100_0_OKLAHO516311?rss_lnk=1Associated PressMon, 20 May 2013 16:07:38 CDTAfter being on the ground for more than half an hour, the massive twister dissipated./article.aspx/Officials_Tornado_in_Moore_so_large_may_not_be_recognized/20130520_100_0_OKLAHO274100?rss_lnk=1Associated PressMon, 20 May 2013 15:41:40 CDT