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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Joplin residents just can't catch a break this month. An aggressive fungal infection struck at least five victims of the Joplin tornado, according to a doctor at one of the town's hospitals. Three of ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — The tornado that impacted so many in Joplin and Duquesne 14-years ago is getting quite a bit of attention at Missouri Southern. And it’s thanks to an archive project — which is being ...

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, ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

Brian Froelke, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and chief medical officer for the Missouri medical disaster team, has set out to Joplin, Mo., to help set up a ...

Related story: Joplin death toll set at 134. Oral Roberts University donated 250 mattresses Wednesday to survivors of the Joplin, Mo., tornado. ORU students who hold summer jobs on campus hauled the ...

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 ...

Husbands Jeff Terry and Travis Griffin live in Jefferson City. They met growing up in Joplin, but didn't reconnect or fall in love until after the 2011 Joplin tornado. They spoke about their long and ...