In a tiny Grant County town just a few miles from the Kansas border, a white water tower familiar to film fans worldwide rises above a short row of neat, primarily red-brick buildings. Wakita's Main ...

If you're a Kansan with cable, you've likely seen the 1996 tornado movie "Twister." Maybe you've even seen it several times this month. The film, one of the more realistic of the unrealistic tornado ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WAKITA, Okla. — The storm season for the ...

When I interviewed modder extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn a couple of months ago, he mentioned that he’d been working on building a pinball machine from the ground up and that it’d be called “Bill ...

WAKITA – Tornadoes are associated with death and misery. Not this one. “It has kept us alive in a lot of ways,” Mary Schmitz said. Schmitz, a Wakita resident, was referring to a fictional twister that ...

Being an athlete is overrated. The only things you really need to feel powerful are a pocketful of quarters and access to your favorite pinball machine. Twister, you had me at multiball. Black Knight ...

WAKITA, Okla. (AP) - Tornadoes are associated with death and misery. Not this one. “It has kept us alive in a lot of ways,” Mary Schmitz said. Schmitz, a Wakita resident, was referring to a fictional ...

Hollywood actor Bill Paxton died Sunday of complications from surgery. He was 61. But one Oklahoma town is mourning his loss as if he was one of their own. In 1995, Bill Paxton spent almost two months ...