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15-State Tornado Outbreak Deadliest Since 2008
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The devastation is stunning -- homes and lives shattered as the deadliest swarm of twisters in three years battered up to 15 states. Ultimately, this could turn out to be among the top 10 three-day outbreaks for number of tornadoes, though experts can't be sure until all the reports are sorted, said Greg Carbin of the federal Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. While tornadoes occur regularly, their power always shocks. This time it was storms battering their way from Oklahoma to North Carolina, claiming at least 44 lives, almost half of those in North Carolina. It was ...
Toxic Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Democratic Report Says
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday. The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either were regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act as risks to human health or listed as hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Methanol was the most widely used chemical. The substance is a hazardous air pollutant and is on the candidate list for potential ...
Death Toll From Severe Storms Rises to 17
By not in system - AOL NewsBOONE'S CHAPEL, Ala. -- Vicious storms and howling winds smacked the Deep South, killing at least seven people in Alabama including three family members whose homes were tossed into nearby woods. In Alabama's Washington County, about 50 miles north of Mobile, a mother and her two children were among those killed, said state emergency management agency director Art Faulkner. One person was reported dead in Mississippi's Greene County. Combined with earlier reported fatalities in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the confirmed death toll had risen to 17 by early Saturday - the nation's ...
Severe Storms' Death Toll Rises to 9 in 2 States
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSHKA, Okla. -- Destructive storms that tore across the country's midsection left at least nine people dead after smashing uprooted trees into homes in Arkansas and ripping apart the only school in one tiny Oklahoma town, officials said Friday. A tornado swept through Tushka in southeast Oklahoma town late Thursday, killing two sisters in their 70s, Salvation Army Capt. Ric Swartz said. The tornado also injured at least 25 people as it ground through the town of 350 residents, said Gilbert Wilson, Atoka County's emergency management director. He said witnesses reported seeing two ...
Fires Rage, Drought Intensifies in Southern Plains, Southwest
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsWhile much of the country has been hit with flooding rain, dangerous thunderstorms and even late-season snow, just the opposite in the Southwest and Southern Plains has resulted in a decidedly different problem: extreme drought and wildfires. Extremely dry ground and vegetation, very low humidity and strong winds are fueling numerous fires in eastern New Mexico, western and northern Texas and Oklahoma. More than 360,000 acres of land have been burned nationally by ongoing fires this week, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. More than 900,000 acres have been burned so far this ...
Mom Climbs Into Well to Save Son [VIDEO]
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsWhen her son fell into a century-old well, Amy Prentice scrambled down after him. The fire chief whose men lifted the pair out praised Prentice, who sacrificed her safety to make sure her son stayed alive until the rescuers arrived. "She comforted him and stayed with him," Bob Hasbrook, chief of the Bartlesville, Okla., Fire Department told AOL News. "We just went in and got them out of the hole." Prentice; her 7-year-old son, Nathan Edwards; and her 6-year-old daughter, Sammy, were playing ball late Sunday afternoon when the children climbed atop a rock wall surrounding an ancient, hand-dug ...
Alleged Killer's Son Directs Police to Missing Stepmother's Body
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe last time anyone saw Carol Grannon was on a March day in 1999, when she left her northeastern Oklahoma home to run errands. She disappeared without a trace. Now, more than a decade later, police say the missing woman's stepson has finally led authorities to what they believe is her body -- and said he witnessed his father killing her. "We are 99.9 percent certain," Muskogee County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Joe Hughart told AOL News. "We have a confession from the son and the father." Muskogee County Sheriff's Office Jeff Grannon, left, was arrested Thursday after his son, ...
Collective Bargaining: Do SAT Scores Prove States Need It?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsDoes collective bargaining make for better or worse test scores? With Republican-controlled legislatures and state houses from Wisconsin to Oklahoma attempting to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights, figures on the combined SAT and ACT college entrance test scores in states without them are proving fodder for the ongoing debate. As republished in The Economist, a chart purporting to show that combined SAT and ACT scores in the five U.S. states without collective bargaining rights are among the worst in the country quickly became a viral hit on Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, ...
Celtics Trade Shocker: Danny Ainge Dumps Kendrick Perkins; Chris Rock Unimpressed
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsThere are several NBA trades worth discussing today, but the one that's getting the most attention is Boston Celtics President Danny Ainge's surprise decision to trade starting center Kendrick Perkins to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Boston will reportedly get center Nenad Krstic and forward Jeff Green from Oklahoma in exchange for Perkins and forward Nate Robinson. Smart move, dumb move or dumbest move ever? Some die-hard Celts fans are dismayed. .bbpBox40898039568809980 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/168960131/Celtics_background.jpg) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} ...
Oklahoma Joins Wisconsin, Moves to Repeal Collective Bargaining Rights
By David Knowles - AOL NewsIt seems to be catching. Joining states such as Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio in an effort to take away worker rights, a House committee in Oklahoma approved a bill that would drastically restrict collective bargaining for Related Stories Collective Bargaining: A Brief History of the Key Issue in the Wisconsin Standoff workers in 13 cities around the state. Unlike in Wisconsin, however, Oklahoma's bill would also deal a blow to police and firefighter unions, greatly altering their ability to negotiate via binding arbitration when contract talks with state and ...
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