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  • Downtown Knoxville library to close for HVAC repairs

    The cooling tower is the last piece of system equipment needing replacement for the at the building located at 500 W. Church Ave. Other repairs to the library's HVAC system were made in previous ...

  • Sewickley library exhibit celebrates the child inside grown men

    John Stupp of Sewickley shows off one of his slot cars at Sewickley Public Library Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The cars are part of an exhibit titled 'The Toys of Grown-Up Boys,' which will be on display until June ...

  • Okla. family mourns child killed at school following tornado

    (CBS News) MOORE, Okla. -- Monday's devastating Oklahoma tornado ripped apart Plaza Towers Elementary School. We've been hearing stories of teachers who used their bodies to shield students as the roof came crashing down. However, one student from the school couldn't be saved from the ...

  • Injured third-grade teacher tells of trying to protect students

    CBS News (CBS News) MOORE, Okla. -- Third-grade teacher Jennifer Doan's sternum and spine are fractured, and there are lacerations all over her body. She can barely speak, but her memory of the tornado is crystal clear. "We told them to get down, there weren't any lights on and already and they were all scared," she says. "I held my arm -- my arm over the ones next ...

  • Oklahoma natives home destroyed for the second time

    (CBS News) MOORE, Okla. - To lose your home to a tornado is incredible enough. But for one Moore, Okla., woman, it has now happened twice. CBS News found Nancy Davis in the ruins of her home Tuesday, in the same spot as the house she lost 14 years ago. This time, she was able to help her neighbors. George Stanley has lived in Oklahoma for sixty years. "We stepped outside here and saw the ...


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Smilla's Sense of Snow

"Smilla's Sense of Snow" is just over two hours long, and for the first hour and a half it is a frustrating, yet intriguing piece of cinema. It develops characters that are interesting, if not always appealing, and spins a fascinating murder-mystery around the death of a six-year-old boy. And then, just when we think we may be viewing a strange masterpiece, it completely falls apart in the last ha ... ...

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  • Search efforts winding down

    NWS , EF5 tornadoes and have winds over 200 mph -- enough to reduce well-constructed houses into splintered rubble and generate automobile-sized missiles. In this case, it reached a maximum 210 mph and covered a path 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide for 50 minutes. The Oklahoma insurance commissioner said the damage is estimated to cost a total of $3 billion. The news came as the search for ...

  • Watch Jodi Arias talks about suicide

    In this recently released video Jodi Arias, the Phoenix woman on trial for her boyfriend's 2008 stabbing and shooting death, sings and laughs to herself during a break from ...

  • Newbury Park author shares books interactive app with area schools

    ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR Author Tammy Raden, of Newbury Park, leads a group of kindergartners through her interactive book app, Press & Dress Priscilla Play, recently at the Honey Tree Early Childhood Center in Thousand Oaks. The creator of a preschool-age book app based on a character named Priscilla, Tammy Raden visits schools each month teaching students how to use the interactive ...

  • Former Detroit Public Library Official Charged with Taking Bribes

    The former Chief Administrative and Technology Officer of the Detroit Public Library was charged with taking more than $1.4 million in bribes and kickbacks from contractors of the library, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Joining McQuade in the announcement was Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley III, FBI, and Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez, IRS-Criminal ...

  • Brigadier general suspended over altercation with woman

    WASHINGTON The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation. The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not his wife. Roberts was suspended from his job by Gen. Robert W. Cone, commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command, while the ...

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