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Tobi rode out the storm in his car, one of the most dangerous places he could be.
• "I love her and there's no way I was going to live knowing I was abandoning her," said Starr, of Del City.
• Modern forecasting technology now gives residents hours of notice of threatening conditions and precise projections of a storm's likely path. Residents are bombarded with broadcast warnings to take shelter.
• But as the spring storm season arrives in Tornado Alley, emergency officials are still wrestling with a dilemma posed by man's best friends. Since many public shelters won't accept animals, people wind up dashing across town to rescue their pets or staying in unprotected houses rather than hunkering down in safety.
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• EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Northwestern football players will file into an on-campus hall adjacent to their home stadium to cast secret ballots Friday on whether to form the nation's first union for college athletes.
• Just don't expect results any time soon.
• After the vote, the ballot boxes will be sealed for weeks or months -- perhaps even years -- as an appeal by the Evanston-based university runs its course.
• The full National Labor Relations Board agreed Thursday to hear the school's appeal of a regional director's March ruling that the players are employees and as such can unionize, triggering a rule that the ballots be impounded.
• Last month's decision by the Chicago-area head of the NLRB, Peter Ohr, sent shockwaves through the world of college sports, prompting sharp criticism from Northwestern and college athletic departments nationwide.
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