9-27-05 - President Bush was getting a personal look at Hurricane Rita's damage to U.S. energy resources with a visit to the birthplace of the modern oil industry. Bush planned to receive a briefing on ...

9-27-05 - Grady County prosecutors will decide whether a woman who claimed to have found an abandoned baby today should face charges for allegedly fabricating the story. Grady County Sheriff ...

9-27-05 - The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is joining the investigation of a state-run gun museum in Claremore. The investigation of the JM Davis Arms and Historical ...

9-27-05 - As the cleanup continues, there is concern over the price of building materials. If you have made a trip to a local hardware store lately, you may have noticed some empty shelves. In the wake of ...

9-26-05 - Rescuers pushed their way into once-inaccessible neighborhoods as Hurricane Rita's floodwaters receded along the Texas-Louisiana coast Monday. The death toll climbed to seven when ...

9-26-05 - Army Pfc. Lynndie England, whose smiling poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted Monday by a military jury on six of ...

9-26-05 - Pieces of history, flown to safety from Hurricane Rita, are at the Grayson County Airport. Antique fighter planes dating back to World War II arrived from Galveston last week. They're a part of the...

9-26-05 - It's the sixth day for hundreds of protesters in Gainesville, and employees at Weber Aircraft say they're not giving up. But some local businesses wish they would. The Gainesville Police ...

9-26-05 - Hurricane Rita spun east of Houston sparing the city and all of its oil refineries. It was a big break for anyone with an automobile as things could have gotten ugly at the pump. Gas prices still aren't ...

9-26-05 - People checking their hurricane-hit homes and towns returned with stories of flooding to the rooftops, coffins and refrigerators bobbing in the water, and stilts where their houses ...

9-26-05 - Concerned about Hurricane Rita's damage to coastal oil refineries, President Bush turned his attention to the nation's energy industry as early economic indicators offered reason for optimism ...

9-26-05 - Hundreds of residents in several East Texas towns were evacuated over the weekend amid fears that water being intentionally released into the Trinity River could flood their homes.

9-26-05 - One flat bus tire brought grumbles from the 37 nursing home patients fleeing Houston in anticipation of Hurricane Rita. When Edna Briant heard a rumble and the driver stopped a second time, it wasn't ...

9-26-05 - A bomb threat called in to the Honey Grove Nursing Center Saturday night forced the evacuation of nearly 100 residents and staff. Local officials moved them to the high school gymnasium...

9-25-05 - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 65 year old motorist suffered a fatal heart attack before his pickup truck careened into a fence in Pushmataha County.

9-24-05 - Three Ladonia men were killed in a house fire in Fannin County around 4:00 a.m. Saturday. One woman was able to make it out of the home alive, but she was not able to wake those sleeping inside.

9-25-05 - Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco says "everything is just obliterated" after surveying coastal towns devastated by Hurricane Rita. Meanwhile, Texans hit the road home to survey the damage.

9-27-05 - The entire community of Ada is still trying to make sense of a murder-suicide over the weekend. Ada officials say 16-year-old Caitlin Wooten was taken from the Ada High School parking lot Friday ...

9-23-05 - The Army Corps of Engineers is setting out to try to patch the holes in a New Orleans levee. The breach has been allowing water to pour into a low-lying New Orleans neighborhood...

9-23-05 - Police officers are already training for a potential disaster. They watched as homes and people were washed away in New Orleans, and they also watched as the ones that survived struggled to find food and water.

9-23-05 - Sherman emergency units were called into action Thursday night after the arrival of a bus carrying nursing home evacuees. The bus pulled into the Sherman Health Center around 9 p.m..

9-23-05 - As thousands of coastal Texans rush to get inland before Hurricane Rita strikes the coast, federal officials are monitoring the storm from Austin, waiting for landfall and the expected need for federal relief efforts.

9-23-05 - Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city. If only they would pick up their phones. With Hurricane Rita breathing down Houston's neck, those with cars were stuck in gridlock trying to ...

9-23-05 - Hurricane Rita's wandering aim could determine whether motorists face a small and temporary bump in gasoline prices or adjust their budgets to absorb a bigger hit over a period of weeks. Oil-industry experts say Rita's ...

9-23-05 - A bus carrying nursing home residents fleeing from Hurricane Rita caught fire then was rocked by explosions early Friday on a gridlocked highway near Dallas, killing as many as 24 people, authorities said.