iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MOORE, Okla.) -- First responders are in a race against time in the search for any survivors of a devastating tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., while the medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from 51 to 24, including nine children.

Oklahoma medical examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. The original death toll included 20 children.

Two elementary schools were in the path of Monday's tornado, which the National Weather Service gave a...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A veteran New York City detective was arrested Tuesday for alleged computer hacking.

Detective Edwin Vargas, who has been with the New York Police Department for 20 years, is alleged to have improperly used a federal database to snoop on an ex-girlfriend and fellow police officers.

Prosecutors say he also hired computer hackers to find information about them.

Between March 2011 and October 2012 court records say Vargas paid a hacking service thousands of dollars to obtain usernames and passwords for dozens of personal accounts of current and former...

ABC News/Stockphoto/Thinkstock(MOORE, Okla.) -- The students at Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Okla., were just preparing to go home for the day Monday when the tornado that killed at least 24 people in their town made what authorities call a “direct hit” on their school.

“We had already prepared our backpacks and they had their bear binders and homework folders in their backpacks,” first-grade teacher Sheri Bittle said Tuesday on ABC’s Good Morning America.  “I had them take their backpacks and put them over their heads.”

In another first-grade classroom at the school,...

Sony LegacyWillie Nelson is gathering his large, musical family for an 80th birthday show at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square June 6. Willie is set to perform along with different bands led by two of his sons, two of his daughters and two of his granddaughters, respectively.

Proceeds from the concert will go to the BioDiesel Alliance and Animal Welfare Institute. A special Willie Nelson "Artist Spotlight" t-shirt, pen and bandana will be available online and at select Hard Rock locations to commemorate the event.  Willie actually...

Facebook.com/KelliePicklerThe first half of the finale is over on season 16 of Dancing with the Stars. Country singer Kellie Pickler is in 2nd place, just a point behind Disney star Zendaya. Pickler and partner Derek Hough's emotional freestyle left half the ballroom in tears, including judge Carrie Ann Inaba and Pickler's husband, songwriter Kyle Jacobs.

Kellie told ABC News Radio after the show, "I didn't see him, but I heard that he was tearing up. Which is crazy, because he never cries. Ever. Um, but I, I guess that's just what dancin' can do to you....

Arista NashvilleThe 2013 CMT Music Awards lineup just got a lot hotter with the addition to the performers lineup of Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum. Florida Georgia Line and Darius Rucker also join the bill, along with previously-announced performers Hunter Hayes, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Pistol Annies and Taylor Swift. Presenters will be announced soon.

You can vote online now to determine the winners at CMT.com and through CMT's mobile apps.

The 2013 CMT Music Awards broadcast live Wednesday, June 5 at 8 p.m. ET on CMT and...