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Tornadoes slam Oklahoma City again, but not as hard

2013-05-31 22:24:00

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs Friday, trapping people in their vehicles as a storm swept down an interstate highway while commuters tried to beat it home. Five people were killed,...

Blake Shelton to aid tornado victims; more severe storms ahead

2013-05-29 09:15:00

Top country music stars, including Oklahoma native Blake Shelton and his Grammy Award-winning wife, Miranda Lambert, were gathering Wednesday to raise money for the tornado-ravaged state. Set to perform during a telethon at the Chesapeake Energy Arena...

Freight trains collide in Missouri, overpass collapses, 7 injured

2013-05-25 10:20:00

Seven people were injured when two freight trains collided in rural southeastern Missouri early Saturday morning, causing a highway overpass to collapse, officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, Lisa Scherer, a dispatcher for the...

Martyl Langsdorf dies at 96; artist created Doomsday Clock image

2013-04-16 10:10:00

Martyl Langsdorf, the artist who created the widely known Doomsday Clock for the first cover of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, died March 26 at a rehabilitation facility near her home in suburban Chicago of complications from a lung infection. She was...

$4.2-million settlement should end Dorner saga, officials say

2013-04-24 06:12:00

A $4.2-million settlement between the city and two women mistakenly shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers will hopefully close a chapter on the Christopher Dorner story, officials said. The money would compensate a mother and daughter who...

Women shot by LAPD during Dorner manhunt get hefty payout

2013-04-23 19:33:00

The mother and daughter newspaper carriers injured when police mistakenly fired on them during the manhunt for ex-cop Christopher Dorner would receive $4.2 million under a settlement announced by city officials. The settlement was remarkably speedy...

No spring for you! Midwest socked with a late blizzard

2013-03-25 05:30:00

Spring typically means the return of sunshine, tornadoes and biblical thunderstorms across the Midwest, but a weekend blizzard in the lower Plains had winter stamping on all signs of life in Kansas and Missouri. A daffodil exposition in Springfield, Mo....

Genomes provide clues for treating leukemia, endometrial cancers

2013-05-01 13:32:00

Efforts to sequence the human genome have revealed genetic risk for disease, and taught us about our early ancestors. Now, efforts to sequence the genomes of cancer cells -- to pinpoint the changes that occur in cancer cells' DNA when a person has the...

Several injured, 2 critically, in explosion at Illinois steel plant

2013-03-07 12:02:00

An explosion Thursday morning at a steel plant near St. Louis injured at least nine people, two of them critically, and spurred an investigation by federal workplace safety officials. Firefighters in Granite City, Ill., just east of the Missouri state...

Beer drinkers accuse Anheuser-Busch of watering down brews

2013-02-26 15:40:00

Beer drinkers in three U.S. states filed lawsuits accusing brewing giant Anheuser-Busch of watering down and mislabeling Budweiser, Michelob and other brands to cut costs. The lawsuits, filed in the last week in California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,...

Midwest begins to dig out from storm that dropped a foot of snow

2013-02-22 09:58:00

Like a fighter who has taken too many punches and was trying to find his balance, the Midwest sought to recover from wet snow and slick ice on Friday as flurries continued and roadways remained treacherous. The storm, which on Thursday dropped more than...

Storm dusts Tucson with snow, gathers strength as it rolls east

2013-02-21 14:07:00

In most places, hoopla about an official snowfall reading of less than one-tenth of an inch sounds silly. In Tucson, it makes sense. On Thursday, a day after the Sonoran desert's saguaros got a rare -- albeit thin -- blanket of snow, the winter...

St. Louis police work the scene where four people were found dead inside the Cherokee Place Business Incubator in St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday, June 13, 2013.

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Katja Hasu of St. Louis, Mo. poses beside a cardboard cutout of the Rollings Stones outside the United Center in Chicago prior to the concert by the legendary rock and roll band.

2013-05-28 00:00:00

Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez, left, competes for the ball against Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen in first-half action during an exhibition match on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. (Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT)

2013-05-23 00:00:00