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Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5

Posted: 4:22 PM - The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.

Posted: 4:17 PM - The father of an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy says a teacher saved his son's life as a tornado tore into their school yesterday.

Updated: 2:33 PM - Kroger is joining forces with the American Red Cross to provide aid to victims of the Oklahoma tornado. Starting May 21st, customer donations will be accepted at all Central Kentucky Kroger locations.

Posted: 2:04 PM - Hospital officials say they've treated hundreds of patients, including dozens of children, since a tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb.

Posted: 1:56 PM - Gov. Mary Fallin says an Oklahoma suburb that was devastated by a deadly tornado will be rebuilt.

Updated: 5:05 PM - A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on Facebook.

Posted: 1:13 PM - Tea party activists have rallied outside a federal building in Louisville, chanting it's time for the IRS to go because of its extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

Updated: 10:48 AM - President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."

Posted: 10:23 AM - The former head of the Internal Revenue Service heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, giving lawmakers their first opportunity to question the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups.

Posted: 10:22 AM - A leading Senate Democrat says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups was intolerable, and he is promising to get to the bottom of how it happened.

Posted: 10:11 AM - A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by using a cluster of affiliates located outside the United States and is prepared to question its chief executive Tuesday about the "loopholes."

Updated: 9:38 AM - The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.

Posted: 10:00 AM - The Division of Waste Management will adjust its collection schedule for the Memorial Day holiday.

Posted: 7:11 AM - More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this week.

Posted: 7:09 AM - President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday.

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