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An outbreak of tornadoes in central Oklahoma Wednesday evening leveled homes, tossed vehicles and killed at least three people. The Red Cross has opened shelters in three locations.
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Volunteers filled Andover United Methodist Church Tuesday to help clean up after an EF-3 tornado hit the town last Friday.
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Prairie Creek Elementary School was among hundreds of buildings and homes damaged by Friday's storm in Andover, Kansas, about a dozen miles east of Wichita.
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At least 20 tornadoes tore through homes and buildings in Texas and Oklahoma on Monday. At least two dozen people were injured and a woman died, authorities said.
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The EF5 tornado in May 2011 destroyed a third of Joplin, Missouri, a city of 50,000, killing 161 people and causing $3 billion in property damage. “You never get over it, it just gets less raw,” one resident said after similar storms in Kentucky last month.
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Oklahoma used to have more public shelters that could accommodate wheelchairs. But many have closed, and there's still no financial aid for renters with disabilities to build safe alternatives.
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Dena Duffin, 53, pulls her teenage son close as she looks into the trailer stuffed with tables, tubs of housewares and whatever else they were able to...
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Build higher, build stronger — it pays off big in Kansas. Disaster mitigation investments in Kansas yielded more savings than efforts in any other state...
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By Nomin Ujiyediin and Scott Canon With trees shredded into tinder and homes ripped asunder, scores of families in and around Lawrence and Linwood, Kansas, surveyed lives that forever will be marked by the time before and after Tuesday’s tornado. No one was killed by the powerful twister, surrounded by a mile-wide sheet of rain, that hugged the ground in northeast Kansas for more than an hour. Still, close to two dozen people were injured, including at least one person who needed surgery.
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(Updated at 4:45 p.m.) With trees shredded into tinder and homes ripped asunder, scores of families in and around Lawrence and Linwood, Kansas, surveyed...