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AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school

As soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV, I had to leave the office right away. I had photographed about a dozen tornados in my decade in Oklahoma and if I didn’t get into my car before the funnel cloud swept through, I knew I would get stuck in traffic and arrive too late at the scene.

By the time I got to Moore, all I could see was destruction. Mangled pieces of metal wrapped up in bare tree limbs. Adults carrying children in their arms. Shredded pieces of wood, cinder block and insulation strewn on the ground.

I walked across a field littered with debris toward a group of people standing by a heaping mound of rubble too big to be a home. A woman told me it was a school and that students had hid in hallways and bathrooms as the massive tornado struck.

I expected chaos as I approached the piles of bricks and twisted metal where Plaza Towers Elementary once stood but was surprised by how calm and orderly everything was.

Police and firefighters used bars to try to lift a large chunk of a wall up as they pulled children out one-by-one from underneath. Parents and neighborhood residents stood in a line helping to pass the children from one set of arms to another out of harm’s way.

A little boy was lifted from under the wall and rescuers were going to start passing him to the line of volunteers, but his dad was there. As the boy called out for him, they were reunited.

I spent about 30 minutes at Plaza Towers and photographed about a dozen children who were pulled from under the rubble.

I focused my lens on them. Some of the children looked dazed and others seemed terrified. But they were all alive.

I know students are among those who died in the tornado, but for a moment, there was hope in the devastation.

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AP Photographer Sue Ogrocki has worked in Oklahoma for more than 10 years where she has covered about a dozen tornados.

Arias speaks on own behalf as jury considers death

When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed than serve life in prison.

After nearly five months of testimony, Arias’ final words will soon bring the trial to an end.

Her own attorneys tried to quit the case after complaining the trial had become a witch hunt. But the judge swiftly rejected the request. Arias will now be the only witness testifying on her behalf.

She is set to speak early Tuesday. The jury will then begin deliberations to decide whether Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or death for the 2008 killing of boyfriend Travis Alexander.

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Get ready to take your best guess at the price of fabulous prizes when "The Price is Right Live" stage show comes to the Pullo Center. The daytime TV game show, long a favorite of college students, is making a fitting appearance at the Penn State York …
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TV and radio listings for May 18

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Here's Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Doing An Impression Of His …

Bill O'Brien just concluded a stand-up routine coaches' caravan tour around Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he addressed whether he said "fuckers" or "fighters" on live TV after the Nittany Lions' season-ending win against …

Here's Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Doing An Impression Of His …

Bill O'Brien just concluded a stand-up routine coaches' caravan tour around Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he addressed whether he said "fuckers" or "fighters" on live TV after the Nittany Lions' season-ending win against …

Arias trial now turns to whether she lives or dies

Jodi Arias will spend the weekend on suicide watch and return to court next week when jurors are expected to consider whether the death penalty should be an option for the former waitress’ sentence.

Minutes after her conviction for killing a former boyfriend, Arias told a TV station she would “prefer to die sooner than later,” complicating matters for defense lawyers who had hoped to spare her life during the penalty phase of the trial. The case was scheduled to resume Thursday, but court officials postponed it until Wednesday without any explanation.

The surprising interview with Fox affiliate KSAZ only added to the circus-like environment surrounding the trial, which has become a cable TV sensation with its graphic tales of sex, lies and violence. Since her arrest, Arias has repeatedly sought the spotlight, including TV interviews, 18 days on the witness stand before a global audience, jailhouse tweets and now the post-conviction comments.

She cannot choose the death penalty. It is up to the jury to make a sentencing recommendation, and the judge will then make the final decision.

If she were sentenced to death, she could decide not to appeal to speed up the process, but it could still take years to play out as she lives under punishing conditions on death row. The state Department of Corrections says Arizona death row inmates have little contact with the outside world and only get to leave their solitary cells for two hours a day, three times a week. They get three showers a week.

The panel of eight men and four women convicted Arias of first-degree murder Wednesday after about 15 hours of deliberations over four days. Testimony began in early January.

The so-called “aggravation” phase of the trial was expected to begin next week. When it does, jurors will deliberate one more time to determine whether the death penalty should be an option for sentencing Arias.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez must convince the panel that the murder was committed in an especially cruel, heinous and depraved manner. This phase will be a mini-trial of sorts, as both sides call witnesses to present testimony to jurors — the defense in an effort to spare Arias’ life, the prosecution to at least have a shot at a death sentence.

If jurors find the killing fits the definition of cruel and heinous, the panel will recommend either life in prison or death.

If the panel finds no aggravating factors exist, jurors will be dismissed and the judge will determine whether Arias should spend the rest of her life in prison or be sentenced to 25 years with the possibility of release.

Arias admitted killing her onetime boyfriend Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008. She initially denied any involvement, then later blamed masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said it was self-defense when the victim attacked her after a day of sex.

Prosecutors said she planned the killing in a jealous rage as Alexander wanted to end their affair and was planning to take a trip to Mexico with another woman.

Phoenix criminal defense lawyer Dwane Cates said Arias has presented obstacle after obstacle for her defense attorneys, who are now just trying to save her life.

“Her defense counsel put four years of their lives into this,” Cates said. “They’re trying to do everything they can for her, and every problem they have in this case is caused by her.

“Every time she opens her mouth, she creates a new problem for the defense,” Cates added.

He said prosecutor Juan Martinez will likely play for jurors the jailhouse interview from several years ago in which she said she wouldn’t be convicted — along with the interview she did after her conviction.

“I would say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, she challenged you to convict her and you did. Now give her her wish and put her to death,’” Cates said.

Defendants convicted of crimes rarely do interviews right after convictions and before being sentenced, but Arias honored an earlier request that she talk to the Fox station in the event of a first-degree murder conviction.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail system, has allowed Arias to do other media interviews and even put on a videotaped “American Idol”-style Christmas singing contest in which Arias took home the top prize.

The sheriff’s office said no more interviews will be allowed with Arias now that she is on suicide watch.

During the next phase of the trial, prosecutors will likely call back to the witness stand the medical examiner who performed the autopsy, as well as the lead detective to explain for jurors how Alexander did not die quickly and likely suffered tremendous pain.

Arias stabbed and slashed Alexander nearly 30 times, shot him in the forehead and slit his throat from ear to ear, leaving the motivational speaker and businessman nearly decapitated before she dragged his mutilated body into his shower where friends found him about five days later.

Complicating things even more for her attorneys are Arias’ own words. As she sat in jail awaiting trial several years ago, she made a bold prediction during an interview on the television show “Inside Edition.”

“No jury will convict me,” she said. Then she went before a camera Wednesday and made more news.

“Longevity runs in my family, and I don’t want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place,” a tearful Arias said. “I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I’d rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it.”

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Brian Skoloff can be followed at https://twitter.com/bskoloff .

McDonald’s tells Cleveland hero: ‘We’ll be in touch’

McDonald’s says it will reach out to a man widely quoted in accounts of the three women who were found in Cleveland after they went missing about a decade ago.

Charles Ramsey, who lives in the neighborhood where the women were found, noted in an interview with a local TV station that he was eating McDonald’s when the scene unfolded Monday. He also made note of his meal in a 911 call. Both the interview and the 911 call went viral online.

On Tuesday, the world’s biggest hamburger company said on Twitter: “We salute the courage of Ohio kidnap victims & respect their privacy. Way to go Charles Ramsey — we’ll be in touch.”

Representatives for McDonald’s, based in Oak Brook, Ill., did not immediately return calls for comment.

American Idol wants Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez for new 'dream team' judging …

JUSTIN Bieber and Selena Gomez are reportedly being touted as a new American Idol judges. Radar reports TV producers have set their sights on the Canadian pop star and his on-off girlfriend to give the show a boost next season. Idol producer Nigel …
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