Evacuations are underway as strong winds fuel a wildfire threatening Oklahoma City.
A fire fueled by dry and windy conditions destroyed at least two homes and was threatening others in Oklahoma City Tuesday evening, causing the evacuation of a 2-square-mile area of the city, according to a state emergency management official.
The Obama administration is proposing rules to govern the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate, a potentially explosive substance that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and reportedly was a component in the July bomb attack on a government building in Oslo, Norway.
A clean-cut young man buys tons of fertilizer, which he uses to create a huge bomb. He puts it into a box truck, brings it into the middle of the city, and then sets off a massive, and deadly, blast.
CNN's Diana Magnay talks to survivors of a shooting spree that left dozens dead at a political camp for youth in Norway.
The scorching temperatures affecting almost half of the U.S. population isn't just causing heatstrokes -- it's also causing people to feel drained and more susceptible to other health problems. The humidity can wreak havoc and feel suffocating to people who have breathing or heart-related problems.
It's truly the dog days of summer in the South.
Searing temperatures kept their grip on only three southern states -- Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas -- on Thursday evening, according to the National Weather Service.
Excessive heat warnings are in place in 23 states across the U.S. Melisa Raney reports.
The number of states under heat advisories diminished to 15 Tuesday evening.
A wildfire forced the evacuation of 70 to 80 homes in central Oklahoma on Friday, emergency officials said.
Severe weather's assault on middle America continued Tuesday, as tornadoes and thunderstorms pulverized communities and claimed at least six lives in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Power poles snap and cars overturn as a strong "maxi tornado" cuts a swath through Piedmont, Oklahoma.
Mid-April marks the anniversaries of several horrendous attacks in recent U.S. history:
The FBI tries to convince Branch Davidian leader David Koresh to release the children from his Waco compound.
Cruelly hot, dry and windy conditions have made Oklahoma a tinder box, with crews deploying helicopters and bulldozers to keep rampant wildfires in check.
New census figures show Hispanics have surpassed American Indians as the largest minority group in Oklahoma.
Marcelino Garcia's three-decade journey from illegal immigrant to successful businessman has unfolded against an unlikely backdrop -- the deeply conservative state of Oklahoma.
Veteran director Barry Levinson has been tapped to direct a "political thriller" based on the 1995 bombing of a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City.
Chicago was under a blizzard watch late Sunday as portions of the Midwest and Northeast braced for a major storm system that will bring bitter cold and a "long duration" of snow, according to forecasters.
Arthur Sedille was up-front with police: He would often put a gun to his wife's head during fantasy sex play at their Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, home.
President Obama must angle his address to the nation on the Gulf oil disaster as more of a "warlike update" than the kind of addresses given by past presidents on national tragedies, a top presidential historian said.
Video shows rescue crews saving a girl caught in an Oklahoma City flood clinging to trees.
Severe thunderstorms ripped through central Oklahoma Monday triggering vicious flash floods that left 136 people injured, roads and cars submerged, and thousands without power, authorities said.
Governor Brad Henry declares a state of emergency in Oklahoma.
At least five people were killed in Oklahoma on Monday after a severe storm system spawned multiple tornadoes across the state, the state emergency management department said.
Friends and family members mourn the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings.
Fifteen years ago, a bomb ripped through a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the worst homegrown terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Bill Clinton sits down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer to talk about the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Former President Clinton said he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House.
Security threats become a contentious political issue. CNN's Dana Bash reports.
Americans have always exercised their Democratic rights under the U.S. Constitution to speak out against the government.
Two workers died Tuesday in suburban Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, after the trench they were digging collapsed, burying them, an official said.
The dream of a white Christmas was turning into a nightmare for some as forecasters predicted a heavy snowstorm would continue on Friday across parts of the central United States.
More than a foot of snow ensured a white Christmas for much of the country. CNN's Samantha Hayes has this report.
As Oklahoma and Texas get battered with blizzard conditions, iReporters are catching it on camera.
Oklahoma's governor ordered every state highway, interstate and turnpike closed Thursday night, hours after declaring a statewide emergency because of a major winter storm battering the state and the rest of the central U.S.
A single-engine plane crashed Saturday outside a bank in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, seriously injuring the five people on board, authorities said.
A single-engine plane crashed in front of a Bank of Oklahoma. Several people were transported to a local hospital.
The actress apologizes to Oklahoma City residents for not using "better judgment"
Numerous wildfires were roaring Thursday through parts of Oklahoma and Texas, engulfing one town and searing neighborhoods in others, including one in Oklahoma City. Hurricane-force winds continued to kick the flames even higher.
Donald Johnson accidentally reserves a nonrefundable room in Oklahoma City instead of Enid, Oklahoma. Now his hotel wants to keep the money. Can he get a refund? Or is he stuck with a room he can't use?
Get out your red pencils and calendars, NBA fans. The league released its 2008-09 schedule on Wednesday, and there is no shortage of intriguing matchups. Here is our early list (in chronological order) of 15 games you won't want to miss:
Amazing. Without a single revision, no call for updates and nary a shift in tenses from present to past, the Seattle SuperSonics' 2007-08 media guide was transformed, overnight, into a history book.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The party's over.
For many people in Oklahoma, life is built around the car.
Court TV Host: We're going to be talking to the founder and leader of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building Survivors' group, Dr. Paul Heath. Dr. Heath is a retired psychologist, who was on the fifth floor of the Murrah building when the bomb exploded. Almost immediately, he helped in efforts to calm and minister to victims and was a founder of the association of survivors. We're very fortunate to have him with us on the sixth anniversary of the the Oklahoma City bombing.
CNN's Rob Marciano shares I-Reporters' images of the winter weather.
The offseason isn't won and lost only on the transactions wire. Left without the protection of PR departments, players and coaches often reveal sides of themselves that will shape the way they -- and their teammates -- approach the coming season. That is, of course, if summer workouts leave them a season ahead at all.
With the Women's College World Series set to begin on Thursday in Oklahoma City, SIOC answers 10 critical questions about the action.
In April of 1889, ambitious homesteaders sprinted to grab the best tracts of land in what became the state of Oklahoma, with some 10,000 of them settling in what is now downtown Oklahoma City almost overnight.
New grassland wildfires spread across the prairies of southern Oklahoma on Wednesday, destroying numerous homes and forcing more than 500 people to evacuate, authorities said.
Oklahoma City firefighters contained a grassland wildfire that destroyed several houses in a neighborhood on the city's northeast side late Sunday, a spokesman said.
A dry and windy weather forecast Friday prompted fears of more wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma, where flames have blackened thousands of acres and are blamed in five deaths.
Across America, real-estate prices continue to confound the skeptics. Many Americans have come to think of their homes as rock-solid investments with little downside.
Watching Eric Rudolph be sentenced to life in prison this week for his terror bombings, I wondered whether he and his followers represent the future of domestic terrorism or the past.
Out the window, you can see the 168 empty chairs that bear witness to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. Downstairs, you can tour the museum that captures the terror that happened here on April 19, 1995.
On April 19, 1995, Brian Espe was working in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City when a deadly bomb ripped through the facility. Ten years later, the survivor still thinks about the people lost that day.
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C-Murder lost his latest attempt to get his second-degree murder conviction thrown out when a state court of appeal refused to reconsider the case.
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