Severe storms threaten central US; trucker dies in Oklahoma

SPUR, Texas (AP) — A storm system that’s blamed for the death of a truck driver in Oklahoma barreled eastward Wednesday, putting 17 million people in the central United States at risk for bad weather, forecasters said.
Three storm chasers also died Tuesday in a collision as they raced toward a tornado-warned storm in West Texas, authorities said.
The storms that struck Texas and Oklahoma late Tuesday brought tornadoes, tennis ball-sized hail and powerful winds, but no widespread dama