- As Virginia Tech students resumed their prepared for resumption of classes, reports showed that the gunman fired more than 100 shots rounds during his deadly attack.
- A close presidential election in France is headed toward a runoff between the conservative and socialist candidates.
- After the deaths of nine Palestinians in clashes with Israeli troops, Hamas called for a new wave of attacks against Israel in retaliation, threatening to disrupt a 5-month-old cease-fire.
- American Indian women nationally are victims of sexual violence at 2.5 times the rate of other U.S. women, and those are just the cases reported to law enforcement authorities, according to a report released by Amnesty International.
- Mexico City lawmakers legalized abortion in North America’s largest city, a measure that likely will influence policies and health practices across Mexico and in other parts of Latin America.
- Inmates staged a two-hour riot at a medium-security men’s prison in Indiana, injuring two staff members and setting fires in a courtyard.
- A Navy Blue Angels pilot who died during an air show once had University of Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops as a passenger in his plane.
- At least 10 people were killed when a tornado struck the small community of Eagle Pass, Texas, near the Mexican border, destroying two schools and damaging hundreds of homes.
- A mineral recently unearthed in Serbia has the same composition as kryptonite, the fictional substance that cripples Superman, the British Museum announced.
- State Rep. Ryan McMullen, D-Burns Flat, said he will continue to push for an independent redistricting commission to redraw legislative and judicial lines after the 2010 census in an effort to take politics out of the process.
- U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, R-Tulsa, said he does not support a House bill that would allow survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riot and their descendants five years to seek damages in court.
- Glass vials containing chemicals were unearthed at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, and all digging for selenite crystals was suspended. Later, the Army began cleaning up the items, which were once used to train soldiers how to detect chemical warfare attacks.
- For the first time, Toyota sold more vehicles globally in a quarter than General Motors.
- Edward G. Lawson Jr., a Tulsa businessman and Republican leader, sold his historic 1,400-acre Lawson River Ranch in Claremore in 15 parcels to seven buyers for $4.97 million.
- A man who was shot to death April 21 in a murder-suicide at the Johnson Space Center in Houston had attended Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma Baptist University. David Beverly, 62, a graduate of Broken Arrow High School, was an engineer for NASA.
- Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the Soviet Union’s collapse and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died of heart failure April 23 at age 76.
- Attorney General Drew Edmondson urged Gov. Brad Henry to veto a tort reform bill, saying it could hamper the state’s ability to file lawsuits. Henry took Edmondson’s advice.
- Enid police think a recent theft of lawnmowers and all-terrain vehicles could be tied to a multistate theft ring that has amassed $500,000 in stolen goods in a rash of thefts this month.
- University of Oklahoma President David Boren defended the placement on campus of a memorial stone with the name of a student suicide bomber. The stone near the Oklahoma Memorial Union bears the name of Joel H. Hinrichs III, who blew himself up outside the OU stadium on Oct. 1, 2005. Boren called for understanding and compassion.
- By a vote of 51-56, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted to begin the exit of U.S. forces from Iraq by Oct. 1 with complete withdrawal six months after that date. The White House has said President Bush will veto any such legislation. A Bush spokeswoman said, “The bill is dead before arrival.”
- The artist who sculpted the Pioneer Woman statue nearly 80 years ago wanted her to have a Bible, but the book is deleted in all four designs of a likeness of the statue that are being considered for the state’s commemorative quarter.
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