Matt Kemp, an Oklahoma City native, has joined other athletes who are donating money to Oklahoma tornado relief, after severe weather flattened communities and killed at least 24 people in the state on Monday.

The 28-year-old Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder first pledged $1,000 for every home run in a tweet on Tuesday.

I'm giving $1000 for tonight's HR and every HR until the All-Star break for the victims of my hometown in OKC. #PrayforOklahoma

— Matt Kemp (@TheRealMattKemp) May 21, 2013

He also tweeted an extra message to the people of his hometown.

My love, support & connection 2 my hometown runs deep. Pls continue 2 pray & help OKC in any way that u can.Together we will #RebuildOKC

— Matt Kemp (@TheRealMattKemp) May 22, 2013

An advertising agency based in Fargo, N.D., has sued the creators of a Cartoon Network show for stealing the work they created for the state's transportation department, WDAZ-TV reported Wednesday.

The lawsuit alleges that "Annoying Orange" creators Dane Boedigheimer and Spencer Grove, who are originally from North Dakota, saw the "Talking Orange" commercials that aired in the state from 2005 to 2009.

“They picked up, moved to California and started another version of it,” H2M attorney Jeff Landa said. “That’s essentially what our case is about.”

Boedigheimer said in 2011 that he had never seen the "Talking Orange" advertisements. He started "The Annoying Orange" as a YouTube show in 2009 before it hit the Cartoon Network under the title, "“The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange" in 2012.

Watch videos for both "Talking Orange" and "Annoying Orange" below:

We first learned that Halle Berry was three months pregnant with her second child back in April, and the proud mom has had her growing baby belly on display ever since.

Earlier this month, the "X-Men" star wore a tight white t-shirt to Revlon's Run-Walk for Women in Los Angeles. On Monday, photographers spotted her in a form-fitting gray dress to lunch with her fiance Olivier Martinez in Malibu, Calif.

Berry even donned a sleeveless, little black dress in Sherman Oaks on Tuesday.

"I feel fantastic. This [pregnancy] has been the biggest surprise of my life to tell you the truth," Berry told CNN in April.

"I thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it's been a big surprise and the most wonderful," she said.

Berry's child is due this fall.

"Scared, but this little pup survived," the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office said in a Twitter photo of a small, black dog sitting atop rubble in the aftermath of the devastating tornado that wreaked havoc in Moore, Okla., on Monday.

Scared, but this little pup survived @cityofmoore #tornado.#okwx #okcoso twitter.com/OkCountySherif…

— Oklahoma Co. Sheriff (@OkCountySheriff) May 20, 2013

The sheriff's department also said they had "no idea" why Susie would guard the dead body of a victim she had never met.

Mary Jane Hart, a convenience store cashier from Doniphan, Mo., sold herself a winning $1 million lottery ticket, KMOV in St. Louis reported Wednesday.

Hoping for the $600 million Powerball, Hart used the numbers of NASCAR drivers to fill out a ticket at the Harlan Pit Stop store where she works.

""I've always wanted to win a jackpot so that I could go to way more Nascar races than I go to, which is a lot," Hart told KDSK.

Despite her lotto success, Hart said she has no plans to quit her job. She will use her winnings to help her son and to visit Hawaii.

A man was killed when two attackers went after him in London on Wednesday, CNN reported.

The man was thought to be a British soldier. The two men beat him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a road in London.

British Prime Minister David Cameron called the incident a terrorist attack. A camera clip recorded by the attackers showed a man speaking in a London accent and holding a meat cleaver.

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting until you leave us alone," one of the men said. "The only reasons we killed this man -- this is because Muslims are dying daily."

A cell phone video obtained by ITN showed a man wielding a cleaver. He apologized to a group of women for killing the man in London, but said that women in his country have to see the same thing.

Cameron tweeted his response.

Amazon is preparing to launch a fan fiction publishing platform called Kindle Worlds, where writers will be able to submit novels, novellas and short stories and earn royalties.

Writers can only create their fan fiction around "worlds" licensed by Amazon, and so far those worlds only include ABC Family’s "Pretty Little Liars," the CW’s "Vampire Diaries" and "Gossip Girl." Entertainment Weekly reports that Amazon Publishing secured just those licenses -- all three of which are owned by Warner Bros. -- though it expects to announce more soon.

Most stories will be priced between $0.99 and $3.99 in the Kindle Store and available through Kindle apps on Android, iOS and other devices.

Writers will own the copyright to original elements they contribute to the world their story is set in, including characters and events. Amazon Publishing retains the exclusive license to writers' original elements, in order to allow "Kindle Worlds authors to build on each other's ideas and elements."

It should also be noted that the owner of the original world, such as "Vampire Diaries," would be able to use a writer's original elements and "incorporate them into other works" without compensating them.

Amazon published content guidelines for writers ahead of the platform's launch, and disallowed crossover into other worlds, use of copyrighted material outside the world, excessive use of brands and offensive content.

The Alabama Department of Public Health reported yesterday that seven cases of a mysterious respiratory illness had been diagnosed. Two have died, according to WSFA.

The number has now climbed to 10, but no more patients have died. Two have been released from the hospital. The sickness has been cited in eight counties in south Alabama, including Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Pike counties.

The ADPH expects results from the Centers for Disease Control on Thursday. Doctors have not yet determined what causes this respiratory illness, but said that each patient had a fever, cough and shortness of breath. Each of the patients had pneumonia as well as the mystery illness.

The two that died had different strains of influenza. The public health offices are monitoring the illnesses closely and keeping records on where the cases spring up. For now, health officials are treating the sickness like they would standard flu.

None of the patients are connected to one another, and none have traveled out of the country recently.

Hollister, a California-style clothing store for teenagers run by oft-criticized parent company Abercrombie & Fitch, has been ruled in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Colorado Independent reported last week.

The judges ruling comes after a four-year legal battle between disability rights advocates and the clothing company for trendy pre-teens. After a judge asked the company to work with disability activists in March to make their store entrances more accommodating, the two sides failed to work out a compromise.

One of the plaintiffs in the class action suit, Julie Farrar, 45, said she was opposed to Hollister's wheelchair accessible side doors, which other plaintiffs argued were often blocked with merchandise.

“I would never go through a side door. It’s not something I would do. I’m philosophically opposed to that,” Julie Farrar, 45, said of Hollister stores' signature front entrances, which are meant to look like the front porch of a beach house. Farrar, who has been in a wheelchair since she was 12, said it was difficult to get into a Hollister store with her daughter.

“These stores are designed to look shuttered and hidden, as if to keep out the riffraff,” Farrar said.

The lawsuit targets 248 stores nationwide that are said to have Hollister's porch-like front steps.

American electric car company Tesla has taken endless criticism for relying on funding from the federal government, according to Bloomberg.

But now, Tesla has repaid the government, as Elon Musk's company wrote a $451.8 million check to close its $465 million loan, for which Sarah Palin called the company losers.

"Following this payment, Tesla will be the only car company to have fully repaid the government," the company wrote on its website.

And not only is it paid, it was paid nine years early. The loan repayment comes after a series of good news for Tesla, including its first-ever profit and sales predictions much higher than they initially guessed. Shares have risen from $25.52 to $87.24 this year.