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. (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 ...

“The fungus was just taking over me,” Steven Weersing said in a new Netflix documentary The EF-5 tornado that ripped through Joplin, Mo., in 2011 killed 158 people, but another deadly threat lurked in ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Many Joplin residents either ignored or were slow to react to the first warning sirens about a massive and deadly tornado this spring, partially because of years of false alarms, ...

Steven Weersing, known to many as "miracle boy" after surviving the 2011 Joplin tornado, is opening up to PEOPLE about how the twister changed his perspective on family and fatherhood Two years after ...

JEFFERSON CITY — A deadly tornado that devastated Joplin could result in federal authorities paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in landfill dumping fees to Missouri and Kansas. As of Tuesday, ...

Jill Sonick, a mother of four, wants to essentially pay it forward. She wants to show the kids from Joplin the same generosity her own family received almost a year ago. "The community support here ...

The tab for claims to insurance companies from the May 22 tornado in Joplin could reach as much as $2 billion, KSDK reports Missouri Insurance Director John Huff as saying. Insurance firms already ...

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, ...