At least 116 are dead and nearly 30 percent of city damaged. May 23, 2011 — -- Rescue efforts are under way as residents of Joplin, Mo., try to pick up the pieces of their lives after a ...

School doors open in Joplin, Mo., three months after deadly tornado. Aug. 17, 2011 -- For a town desperately seeking a return to some sense of normalcy, the ringing of school bells is more welcome ...

The remains of a truck is wrapped around a tree as Kayla McMinn gathers belongings on Vermont Avenue, near 18th Street, on Monday afternoon, May 23, 2011, a day after Joplin, Mo., was hit by a tornado ...

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 ...

From the producers of "Dateline," NBC's new series "Survival Mode" will give viewers an inside look at some of the largest and most recent disasters through accounts from those who lived through them.

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 ...

A 22-mile-long path of destruction was carved into St. Louis on May 16, leaving five people dead and over $1.6 billion in damages. The historic EF3 tornado caused the "largest residential destruction ...