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  • Many of the dead were kids whose elementary school took a direct hit. Crews have been working through the night, looking for anyone still trapped.
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  • Country music performer Toby Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado
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  • The death toll from a monster tornado that ripped throught he town of Moore, Oklahoma Monday continues to rise
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  • Authorities are set to release more than 300 photos on Tuesday that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others
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  • One monstrous tornado with winds up to 200 mph flattened neighborhoods, set buildings on fire and landed a direct blow on an elementary school
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  • The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off -- survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community
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  • -- I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too late.
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  • A North Carolina woman is charged with trying to poison five family members after one of them refused to share some cheese with her
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  • Officials say new attacks in Iraq have killed seven people and wounded dozens
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  • For the first time, Utah police said they believe Susan Powell's brother-in-law was "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body
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  • One monstrous tornado with winds up to 200 mph flattened neighborhoods, set buildings on fire and landed a direct blow on an elementary school
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  • Dozens of people are reported dead following Monday's tornadoes; look at the 10 deadliest twisters in the U.S. since 1900
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  • Two people were killed near Shawnee, Oklahoma and at least 39 people throughout the state were injured
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  • Rescuers pulled children from a school building that's among dozens flattened by the twisters that have claimed 10 lives so far
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  • Rescuers pulled children from a school building that's among dozens flattened by the giant twisters that have claimed 10 lives so far
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  • It was a bigger-than-average tree rescue for firefighters in Colorado Springs
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  • Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways
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  • A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles there
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  • Saudi Arabia says it has recorded another death from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 16
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  • A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years
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  • Jodi Arias
  • Jodi Arias' lawyers have asked to withdraw from the case and say they won't call any witnesses in the penalty phase of her trial.
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