A tornado hit an Oklahoma newsroom built in the 1920s. The damage isn't stopping the presses

 


SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — When Oklahoma and national officials held a press conference Monday to discuss the scale of devastation following tornadoes two days earlier, Kathy John did what she always does: She showed up to report on it for the town's weekly newspaper, the Sulphur Times-Democrat.

But before she could write her story, John had to help her staff salvage computers from the newsroom, which was at the center of the path of destruction on April 28.

"We're gonna get a paper out. It may be a day late, but we're gonna get a paper out," John said from in front of the brick building built in 1...



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