In case you missed a story here or there, here are the local happenings from Monday, May 20, 2013.

Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night early Tuesday lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City …

Residents in the Olyneyville section of Providence said they are in shock after a teenager was found shot there. A nursing assistant, who lives nearby, said she rushed over to try and save the man's life.

Fewer than two percent of all certified food stamp retailers in Rhode Island were disqualified by from accepting EBT cards in 2012, but a reform advocate says that figure is just the tip of the iceberg of a fraud problem that is costing …