Oklahoma Tornado Victim Search Efforts Winding Down

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of eight children.

WWE Extreme Rules Features No Contest For WWE Title, Big Night For The Shield

This year's Extreme Rules pay-per-view event left us with some unanswered questions but also some new beginnings.

In the main event (a rare moment in WWE history where all wrestlers in a final match on PPV weren't on a full-time WWE schedule), Brock Lesnar defeated Triple H in a cage match. Lesnar went up 2-1 on "The Game" and is likely poised for another future match in WWE (not against Triple H), perhaps at Summerslam or Wrestlemania 30. Questions coming out of this match are: will Triple H wrestle again? And what will Brock turn his attention to next? Perhaps we may see Rock vs. Brock after all.

Earthquake: 5.2 Quake Felt In Toronto, Began In Ottawa Valley; More Tremors Expected

Toronto has been shaken many times this week.An Icarus-like brush with the Stanley Cup for the Maple Leafs, a tragic murder with no discernable motive in the Tim Bosma case, a narrowly avoided LCBO strike, our mayor making international headlines ... It made Friday’s actual earthquake seem too much to be true.

Taylor Swift wins 8 trophies at Billboard Music Awards; Perform Minaj, Justin Bieber

Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards.

Swift won eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for "Red." She told the crowd: "You are the longest and best relationship I ever had."

Eurovision Goes Back To Basics In Malmo

Emmelie de Forest triumphed for Denmark in a year when the Eurovision Song Contest went back to basics. 

The 20-year-old gave Scandinavia its second consecutive win and her country's third victory in the history of the competition with her song, Only Teardops.Punctuated by drumming and a tin whistle, her entry stood out from the crowd of ballads, Europop and dance hits that tried to emulate last year's winning song.

Oxbow Wins Preakness Stakes 2013

Oxbow and Gary Stevens ensured the Triple Crown drought will continue at least one more year.Oxbow won the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes under overcast skies at Pimlico Race Course. Topping a field of nine 3-year-old horses, Oxbow won the 1 3/16-mile race in dominating fashion.

After a thrilling come-from-behind win in the Kentucky Derby, Orb arrived in Baltimore as the Preakness favorite. Even after drawing the rail position for the Preakness, trainer Shug McGaughey's horse remained the favorite and went off at 3-5. Oxbow went off at 15-1 but took the early lead out of gate No. 6 and never relinquished it. Oxbow finished in 1:57.54.

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"We were kind of flying under the radar after the Derby, didn't get a lot of respect even with the great performance. I came back and breezed him on Monday and what you see right now is exactly how he acted in his workout out. We went just a nice, easy workout. His mind was right," Stevens, a Hall of Fame jockey who came out of retirement earlier this year, told NBC's on-horse reporter Donna Brothers after the race. "We came in here with a lot of confidence. Then we hit the half-mile pole, I told myself, 'Are you kidding me? Is this happening?' The race was over."

Despite the backing of the bettors, Orb never truly contended and finished fourth. Itsmyluckyday came second, with Mylute finishing third. The loss for Orb means that horse racing fans will need to wait at least another year to celebrate a Triple Crown winner. No horse has swept the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont since Affirmed in 1978

"I'm disappointed. I'll probably be more disappointed tomorrow than I am right now but I know the game. And it is highs and lows and probably more lows than highs," Orb trainer Shug McGaughey told Bob Neumeier of NBC after his Triple Crown hopes were dashed. "But we had a great run two weeks ago. And my hat is off to Wayne to win his sixth Preakness. It's a pretty remarkable record."

One of three horses saddled by trainer D. Wayne Lukas in the 138th Preakness, Oxbow paid $32.80 to win, $12.00 to place and $6.80 to show. Oxbow's triumph moves Lukas one win behind Robert Walden (7) for most Preakness wins of all time, according to ESPN Stats & Info.

"I get paid to spoil dreams," Lukas told Mike Battaglia of NBC after his sixth career win at the Preakness. "Unfortunately, we go over here and you can't mail 'em in. It's a different surface and a different time. You gotta line 'em up and win 'em."

It was the third Preakness victory for Stevens, who had settled into a second career as a race commentator before the call from Lukas.

"He's like a brother, a coach and a father figure to me," Stevens said of Lukas, who now claims six Preakness winners.

"American Idol" Winner Announced

American Idol 2013

With a flawless voice that recalled past "American Idol" finalist Jennifer Hudson and a sense of determination after not making it in previous seasons, Candice Glover did the one thing Hudson wasn't able to do: She won the title of "American Idol."

Retired NASCAR Driver Dick Trickle Dies of Apparent Self-inflicted Wound

Dick Trickle

Richard "Dick" Trickle -- who parlayed a legendary reputation as a short-track driver into a full-time career on stock car racing's biggest stages in the 1990s -- died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a North Carolina sheriff's office said. He was 71.

The Trial Of Jodi Arias,She Faces Possible Death Penalty After Jury's Verdict

Jodi Arias could face the death penalty, nearly five years after she stabbed, shot and almost decapitated her ex-boyfriend.A jury Wednesday found that Arias was "exceptionally cruel" when she murdered Travis Alexander in 2008. That verdict is a key step that makes Arias, 32, eligible for the death penalty in the next phase of her trial.

Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer and Cancer Phobia

Angelina Jolie

The most revealing and important line in Angelina Jolie’s OpEd in the New York Times today is not the one in which she reveals she has had her breasts removed to reduce the likelihood she will develop breast cancer. It’s this one; “Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness.” 

Happy Mothers Day

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears! Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."