The death toll from the multiple-vortex tornado that hit Joplin, Mo. Sunday has risen to at least 142, the city's manager said at a news conference Saturday. One hundred people are still missing, a ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A federal agency's final report about its technical investigation into the 2011 Joplin tornado calls for nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, and ...

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The death toll from the nearly-mile wide tornado that flattened Joplin, Missouri on Sunday is expected to rise to over 100 people. And as rescue teams continue to tentatively probe the damaged area, ...

Update: the death count has risen to 116, making it the most-deadly single tornado in 60 years, the AP reports. On Sunday, a tornado cut a nearly half-mile wide path through six miles of the city of ...

No community would willingly sign up for a deadly tornado, but at some point, tragedy and destruction become the opportunity to thoughtfully make things better than before. St. Louis now has the ...

Friends and family paid tribute Friday to victims of the Joplin tornado, beginning the grim task of burying the dead as officials said the savage storm's death toll had risen to 132.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — There were tearful remembrances for lost classmates and jokes about spending their senior year in a converted department store. But most of all for Joplin High School's Class of ...

At least 116 are dead and nearly 30 percent of city damaged. May 23, 2011 — -- Rescue efforts are under way as residents of Joplin, Mo., try to pick up the pieces of their lives after a ...

Related story: Joplin death toll set at 134. Oral Roberts University donated 250 mattresses Wednesday to survivors of the Joplin, Mo., tornado. ORU students who hold summer jobs on campus hauled the ...

The El Reno tornado, Joplin tornado and Tri-State tornado are among the biggest and most damaging twisters in U.S. history. Tornadoes can be more than a mile wide and have wind speeds greater than 300 ...

Tornado coverage walks a fine line between show biz and death and destruction. Far and away the best predictor of a possible tornado landing is some business called TOR:CON, a formula stirred up by ...