Thousands of students and residents in the Joplin area will have shelter during the upcoming severe weather season thanks to the construction of safe rooms that began after the deadly May 2011 tornado. The Joplin Globe reported local school districts …
An audit of Joplin found enough mismanagement over its hiring of a master developer following a May 2011 tornado that devastated the southwest Missouri city that the findings have been turned over to authorities, the state auditor said Tuesday. The …
Since a tornado devastated Joplin in 2011, more than $100 million has been spent by school districts in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas to provide safe rooms for students, staff and patrons during severe weather, according to a newspaper analysis. …
A foundation has distributed more than $5.5 million in donations that poured into Joplin after a May 2011 tornado. The Joplin Tornado Fund administered by the Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri received just over $6 million in donations from sources …
Work has begun on a temporary medical center in Moore, Okla., which was left without emergency care after a massive tornado destroyed the city’s hospital in May. The Norman Transcript reported Thursday that the new emergency and outpatient center should …
A new Joplin High School that will replace one destroyed by the May 2011 tornado is on track to be opened in time for the start of school next year, and two elementary schools and a middle school are scheduled …
A southwest Missouri woman has been sentenced to four years of probation for defrauding victims of the 2011 Joplin tornado. The Lebanon Daily Record reports that 57-year-old Gloria Schoeller of Springfield was sentenced this month for unlawful merchandising practices and …
The nearly 600 federal trailers that housed Joplin residents since the May 2011 tornado are slowly emptying, with only about 80 of the trailers still occupied. Those who remain in the trailers will soon have to start paying rent in …