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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 2012, ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — Last night’s weather is prompting a storm shelter reminder from the Joplin School District. Pets are welcome in the district’s 13 community safe rooms. One school had nearly 80 dogs and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday is the 15-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado, which tore a six-mile-long and up to a mile-wide path of devastation ...

COLUMBIA - This is a really good time to talk about tornadoes. Tuesday marked the anniversary of the Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado, and Thursday marks the third anniversary of the Joplin tornado.

JOPLIN, Mo. - A new chapter unfolding for a Missouri community rocked by a deadly tornado. An EF-5 tornado hit Joplin in 2011. Thousands of homes and businesses were either destroyed or damaged, ...

Today, most children in Joplin Schools have no direct memory of the May 22, 2011, tornado, it having happened before they were born. But Joplin’s response captured the attention of the country, ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — For Beth Trenary, May 22 is a day that life changed forever. Trenary’s mother, Wendy Istas, was one of the 161 people killed after an EF5 tornado tore through Joplin on May 22, 2011. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes and his camera team were in Kansas City on the early morning of May 22, 2011, and he ...