Joplin News

When tornadoes tore across the Midwest this week, they set their fury against buildings made from the same wood, steel and concrete architectural components used to construct homes a hundred years ago.

By the time I visited Joplin on Labor Day 2011, after the May 22 tornado had struck the southwest Missouri community, much of the damage was still visible.

Robert Siegel speaks with John Farnen, executive director of strategic projects for Mercy Hospital Joplin, regarding lessons of the Joplin, Mo., tornado for rebuilding large structures like the Mercy Hospital Joplin.

Less than three hours after a deadly twister on Monday flattened a swath of Moore, Oklahoma, tornado warning sirens sounded in Joplin, Missouri, 215 miles to the northeast.

Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb, was being interviewed by a television news crew when her pet Schnauzer was seen peeking out of the rubble.

The damage from Monday's tornado in a suburb of Oklahoma City is likely to exceed that caused by the 2011 twister in Joplin, Missouri, that killed 158 people, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said.

The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour , was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

Officials in Joplin, Mo., have brought together a team of public safety employees they are sending to tornado-stricken Moore.

It's been 150 years since Confederate guerrillas ambushed a black regiment at a Civil War battle site a few miles north of Joplin.

Severe weather moved through the Plains states over the weekend, bringing high winds, heavy rains and tornadoes.

A thank you message to volunteers hangs on a fence at a home in Joplin, Mo., on May 14, nearly two years after a deadly tornado ravaged the area on May 19, 2011.

On any given day the news will be filled with stories of Muslims fighting each other over sectarian divides or interreligious fighting.

The violent tornado outbreak that battered north Texas Wednesday, killing at least 6 people, came with adequate tornado warnings, according to meteorologist Mike Smith of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions.

Americans for Prosperity- Missouri, a group that supports limited government, less taxes and fiscal restraint for the government, made a stop today at College Station Daylight Donuts & Coffee in Joplin on their Bold Ideas Tour.

Newton County officials say a tip sent them to a home west of Joplin, where they found nearly 400 marijuana plants spread throughout the home.

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Joplin's master developer gave the City Council an update at a special meeting Monday night.

One person is in the hospital after a shooting early Monday morning in Joplin. Police Corporal Chuck Niess tells News Talk KZRG it started with a disturbance outside the city.

A 5-year-old boy on a bicycle was taken to the hospital after he was hit by a car Sunday afternoon in Carthage.

Over a thousand people spent Sunday afternoon at Joplin's Joe Becker Stadium watching a baseball game.