Thunderstorms, hail slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup
 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A band of thunderstorms is battering the Oklahoma City area and slowing cleanup operations in the southern suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes earlier this week...
Boy Scouts of America set to vote on gay youth ban
 By Marice Richter GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America will vote on Thursday on a proposal to remove its ban on openly gay scouts that has been in place throughout the organization's 103-year history...
Immigration bill gets Senate boost; House effort teetering
 By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of U.S. immigration reform are hoping that the smooth and drama-free passage of their legislation through a Senate committee - a departure from almost everything that has happened in Congress over the past four years - will boost the likelihood of the bill winning full Senate approval...
Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived
 By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction...
‘We aren’t daredevils’: Oklahoma’s storm chasers in the sky
MOORE, Okla.—As a helicopter pilot for Los Angeles’s KCAL-TV, Jim Gardner had flown over deadly mudslides and earthquakes, covered car chases and was shot at by snipers during the L.A. riots. Yet Gardner was best known for giving the world its first glimpse of O...
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