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Fatalities have been reported after a tornado caused extensive damage in El Reno, Oklahoma, late Saturday night. Numerous pictures and videos on social media showed extensive damage in the city. One report on Twitter stated that debris was falling from the sky along a stretch of Interstate 40 near El Reno. Damage at NW 23rd and Classen. pic.twitter.com/3DcnumrZOm — Dylan Buckingham (@DylanBuckingham) May 26, 2019 El Reno City Councilwoman Tracey Rider told News 9 that there are an unknown number of fatalities at a hotel. The hotel in the city reportedly took a direct hit and was leveled by the...

President Barack Obama’s push for a fairer justice system is literally sending him to prison. As part of a week-long focus on inequities in the criminal justice system, Obama will meet separately Thursday with law enforcement officials and nonviolent drug offenders who are paying their debt to society at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for male offenders near Oklahoma City. He’ll be the first sitting president to see the inside of a federal prison, the White House said. […] The goal is usually to keep people with criminal histories far away from a president, not to...

President Barack Obama announced today that he will visit the El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma next week to participate in a VICE special on America's criminal justice system. It will make Obama the first sitting US president to visit a federal prison. As part of the VICE special airing this fall on HBO, Obama and VICE founder Shane Smith, host of the special, will tour the facility and meet with prisoners, prison staff, and law enforcement officials. Related: VICE News' coverage of crime and drugs Located in central Oklahoma, El Reno is a medium-security facility that houses 1,300 inmates...

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El Reno Police and OSBI have identified a suspect in the multiple murders discovered Monday afternoon at the Elizabeth Place Apartments in El Reno. Investigators are searching for Joshua Steven Durcho (dob 2-21-83). Durcho has multiple tattoos on his body including one on the back of his neck. Agents believe he is driving the victim’s 1989 white Ford Thunderbird which has front end damage. The Oklahoma vehicle tag number reads WRQ-590.

Bigfoot may have been found. Maybe. We'll see. Two Northern California men and two Georgians say they've got a body, a photo and DNA evidence pertaining to the elusive forest-dwelling man-ape — and that they'll reveal all at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday. "I think you'll find that this is the real deal," Robert Barrows of Redwood City, Calif., told the Bay City News local wire service.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2292911 Video at link above shows a women holding up a sign protesting the police when one of the police shoots her with a rubber bullet in the back of the leg.She then turns around and gets shot in the forehead(wich can and does kill people) then the video cuts to the police gathering around after the protests and laughing about shooting her and talking about giving out trophys for it

Scientists said on Wednesday a huge mass of slimy flesh that washed up on a Chilean beach last week may be a rare type of giant octopus or just discarded whale blubber. In an unrelated story, Helen Thomas, Maddy Albright, and Janet Reno were seen on a Chilean beach during their vacation late last week.

<p>That paragon of rectitude and competence, former Attorney General Janet Reno, disapproves of the way her successor, John Ashcroft, is doing his job. Speaking to university students in Minnesota Monday, Miss Reno suggested that Mr. Ashcroft had questioned the patriotism of critics of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror. "It is important that we bring people to justice according to the principles of our Constitution," Miss Reno declared. "The day we start giving up our freedoms, the bad guys have won." While this editorial page has criticized Mr. Ashcroft's handling of some issues (such as the administration's push for military tribunals), he has done an outstanding job in the wake of September 11 of mobilizing U.S. law enforcement action to prevent more terrorist attacks on Americans.</p>

<p>Washington -- Attorney General John Ashcroft ignited a new controversy over his agency's treatment of gays and lesbians Friday after he refused to allow Justice Department employees to hold an annual event celebrating "gay pride month" at the agency's headquarters.</p>

<p>ITHACA -- Society's problems would be better solved with less emotion and partisan rhetoric and more application of scientific knowledge, Janet Reno told a packed Statler Auditorium on Thursday night.</p> <p>Reno, on the Cornell University campus for two weeks as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, gave a speech titled "Truth and How We Seek It."</p>

Greta Van Susteren just did a "news alert" that Janet Reno's run for Fla. govenor is over. She suffered a "big defeat" at the hands of opponent Bill McBride.