The death toll from the devastating tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, rose to 132 people by Friday, while 156 people are still missing. "We will not rest until everyone has been accounted for," said ...

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 ...

JOPLIN, Mo. Rescue crews refused to be deterred Wednesday even as Joplin officials said no new survivors were pulled from the rubble left by behind the single deadliest tornado in decades and the ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been 12 years since I went tornado-hunting myself. I was reporting a story about weather junkies for a now-defunct magazine. I spent a long day driving around Oklahoma with Cloud 9 Tours (which ...