In 1972, Bob Willis relocated his printing business next to his home on Gateway Drive. By 6:05 p.m. Saturday, both were gone, swept away by an EF-3 tornado.

Local utility providers continue working around the clock to restore power to thousands of customers affected by Saturday’s tornadoes.

Three locks in the Hannibal region — at Canton, Quincy and Saverton — were shut down for up to 10 days, but reopened last week after flooding receded.

Severe storms, including what meteorologists believe was a powerful tornado, ripped through the Tri-State area leaving a minimum of four people dead in Newton and Jasper counties.

Jay Wortman said all he could think of was his daughter as he drove through the tornado that struck Southwest Missouri on Saturday night. Breanna, 13, was at home alone in their two-story house northwest of Neosho.

Officials confirmed Sunday morning that 12 Newton County, Mo., residents were killed in the tornado that hit the area Saturday night. Steve Runnels with the National Weather Service said he and his team "feel that potentially greater than an EF3 tornado has occurred."

Shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, Levi Payton peeked out the front door of his girlfriend’s apartment just off Iris Road northwest of Neosho, Mo. Just to the southwest and bearing down was a “massive” tornado Payton described as being “two to three football fields wide.”

A thunderstorm rolled through Newton County at approximately 6 p.m. Saturday, causing extensive damage. At least four deaths have been reported.

Missy is a single mom working for minimum wage at a local convenience store. To her, debates about whether the country is in a recession don’t really matter. To her, things are just “bad.” And that’s all she cares about.

Unlike some, who feel that Neosho is safely enclosed in a bubble of sorts and largely unaffected by what many economists are defining as a recession, local restaurant owner Randy Collins testifies to the damage being done to his bottom line.

President Bush on Thursday signed a measure that authorizes a study by the National Park Service to determine the feasibility of either creating a new Civil War battlefield at Newtonia or bringing those battlefield lands under the management of the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield near Springfield.

Changes have been announced at Precious Moments that will affect the current and future operation of the park.

Do you and your family need a good movie? A movie you all can watch together after dinner? Remember the kind with no cell phone interruptions, knocks at the door or family drama? Just a good movie with no foul language, nudity and a great message for everybody.

I’m getting waterlogged with all this rain we’ve been having. It seems like every time I get a day off, it rains.

Preliminary results from an autopsy performed on a body found in an eastern Newton County field Monday evening revealed the person had been shot in the head.