Season for disasters
by Chip Latcham
07:34 PM, Wednesday, May 22
It seems every day we Americans are greeted by another unimaginable tragedy. Just a week after tornadoes tore across North Texas and claimed six lives near Granbury, we learn about the monstrous twister that tore through Oklahoma, leaving at least...

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