Two men who admitted stealing copper wire from the streets of Joplin, Mo., after the May 2011 tornado have been placed on probation. A Jasper County judge on Monday granted five years of probation for 32-year-old Nycoa Kracht, of Laurel, …
The federal government is giving the city of Joplin, Mo., a deal on two fire engines it loaned the city after the 2011 tornado. The Federal Emergency Management Agency bought the trucks as loaners and allowed the city to use …
A center that helped people left homeless by the Joplin tornado in May 2011 is preparing to close. The Human Services Campus was opened next to a mobile home park provided for tornado victims after the storm. It allowed about …
Steven Weersing survived Joplin’s 2011 tornado, but the battle to recover from a fungus that nearly killed him continues 20 months later. Weersing has a crater-like scar on the right side of his chest. To save him from the mold …
An insurance company that nearly went under after the Joplin, Mo., tornado is back in better financial condition. Missouri’s insurance department says a judge has granted its request to release Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. from department control. The company …
A southwest Missouri couple will stand trial on charges that they defrauded victims of the 2011 Joplin tornado Sixty-five-year-old Jeffrey Wolfson, of Osage Beach, and his wife, 57-year-old Gloria Schoeller, of Springfield, are accused of taking about $38,000 of insurance …
Construction in Joplin, Mo., since the tornado is approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars. Since May 22, 2011, about $715 million in construction has been started in Joplin, according to the latest building permit figures, which were for the months …
The wife and daughter of man killed inside a Walmart store when a massive tornado hit Joplin are suing. The Joplin Globe reported that the wrongful death lawsuit names as defendants Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the store’s manager. The case …
St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin is being rebuilt with the lessons learned from last year’s tornado in mind, which will make it stronger and safer, the project manager of the construction project said. The May 22, 2011, tornado …
The May 22 tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., killed 161 people, and it also affected thousands of others physically and mentally, according to Drury University researchers. The Springfield, Mo., school is analyzing how survivors dealt with the physical, mental and …