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As the nation focuses on the hardest hit tornado-affected areas of Oklahoma, smaller communities are still asking for help....

Scott Lewis picked up his son, Zack, from Plaza Towers Elementary School as hail pounded the school Monday afternoon. About five minutes after they left, Lewis said, the monster tornado smashed into the building....

OKLAHOMA CITY — Cleveland County is due to get another district judge seat authorized very soon after state representatives approved 78 to 9 on Wednesday the legislation to accomplish such a feat....

The Little Axe Senior Class of 2013 held its commencement exercise Tuesday evening. Graduates include Kaleb Leroy Anderson, Christopher L. Arterberry, Nora Leigh Barnett, Kaila Rae Linn Bopp, Dalton Lynn Branch, Shannon Maree' Brophy, ...

Ninety-four percent of Oklahoma schools do not have tornado shelters, according to Gov. Mary Fallin, even though at least one weather expert says they should be standard. With two Moore schools destroyed in Monday’s EF-5 tornado — and ...

Check our list of groups collecting donations and organizing volunteer recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Moore tornado.

The Warren Theatre in Moore, Okla., show a message of hope after the building was hit by Monday's tornado. Globe/Roger Nomer

Kriket Krekemeyer cries while cleaning up her home in Moore, Okla., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the first detailed account of the devastation.

MOORE — Zach Woodcock knew the storms were going to be bad on May 22, 2011, so turning on the Weather Channel was a natural instinct. What he saw filled him with fear. The Moore resident’s family lived in Joplin, Mo.

MOORE — Rosella Poff’s gravestone was laid in Moore Cemetery just nine months ago. Then in the span of a few seconds Monday, a monster tornado pulled her memorial from the red earth and cast it, in pieces, away from her final resting place.

MOORE — Huddled in his city’s emergency operations center Monday afternoon, Moore City Manager Steve Eddy watched as a massive tornado prepared to tear through his community.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The state Senate voted Wednesday to take $45 million from the state Rainy Day Fund for immediate tornado disaster relief. Senate Bill 249 was passed unanimously in the Senate and sent to the House, where members will vote very soon to approve the measure and send it to the governor.

NORMAN — Shayla Taylor was ready to give birth to her second child just as the impending destruction of Monday’s EF-5 tornado bore down on the Moore Medical Center.

Compare before and after shots of Plaza Towers Elementary, Briarwood Elementary, and the Moore Medical Center.

NORMAN — Three of the 24 victims from Monday’s tornado have been identified. Officials say 20 of the 24 were Moore residents and four were from Oklahoma City.

MOORE — The first victim of Moore’s tornado was identified by family as 9-year-old Janae Hornsby, a Plaza Towers Elementary student, according to a local news station....

Police arrested two men on looting complaints Tuesday after homeowners saw the men and alerted authorities, said Moore Police Department spokesman Jeremy Lewis....

As Moore resident Troy McElmurry stood near the rubble on Tuesday where his home used to be, he said he’s not sure if he wants to rebuild or not....

NORMAN — When the tornado siren sounded at Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore on Monday afternoon, Maylene Sorrels had one reaction: protect her students.

Medical providers acted on training and instinct Monday afternoon when an EF-5 tornado tore through the Moore Medical Center, 700 S. Telephone Road. Shannon Largent, clinical nurse manager at the center, said the hospital was on high ...