City leaders in Moore, Okla., have approved new residential building codes requiring new homes to be built to withstand winds of up to 135 mph, making it the first U.S. city to adopt construction rules aimed at preventing catastrophic tornado …
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan has announced an additional $109 million in disaster aid for Moore and the state of Oklahoma for recovery efforts from last year’s tornadoes and other disasters. Moore will receive nearly $26 million …
An attorney for supporters of an initiative petition to place storm shelters in public schools told the Oklahoma Supreme Court that Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office abused its discretion by re-writing a ballot title that he says was not legally …
An upcoming report prepared for an engineering society will say that an elementary school destroyed by a tornado at Moore, Okla., last spring was poorly designed and could have protected children better if it had been properly reinforced. Similar construction …
An excavator tore down an aging former school Friday in rural Oklahoma, but it was what was left standing that drew a crowd. After the ceilings and concrete walls of the old Little Axe middle school came down with ease, …
The mothers of two Moore schoolchildren who were killed in last year’s tornado have filed a lawsuit accusing Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin of violating the state’s open records law. The lawsuit was filed in Oklahoma County District Court on behalf …
Legislative leaders say they won’t demand that Oklahoma’s public schools build storm shelters to protect their students, saying such decisions should be left to local officials. Two competing tornado shelter plans are being floated as Oklahoma lawmakers prepare to reconvene …
Oklahoma insurance experts will be hosting a forum next week in Moore to help local residents with insurance-related claims connected to the devastating May tornadoes. State Insurance Commissioner John Doak said the forum will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday …
Officials at Moore Public Schools are welcoming teachers to a new school year following a devastating tornado that destroyed two schools and damaged many others. Superintendent Robert Romines will welcome 1,450 Moore Public School teachers to the 2013-2014 school year …