Emergency managers in western Kentucky are taking stock of damage from a belt of tornado-laden storms that passed through the area. Kentucky Emergency Management officials said the storms that came through Sunday damaged some homes, blew down trees and left …
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is declaring seven Illinois counties as disaster areas after massive storms packing funnel clouds ripped through the state. The governor’s office says Monday that the declaration area covers Champaign, Grundy, LaSalle, Massac, Tazewell, Washington and Woodford …
National Weather Service crews are heading out to survey storm damage across Illinois. Meteorologists say a tornado that touched down in southern Illinois near New Minden had a preliminary strength rating of an EF-4. That means it had winds between …
A northeast Ohio town that lost its fire station in a tornado during the summer has gotten donated equipment to help its volunteer force. The state fire marshal and the Cincinnati-area MN8-Foxfire company partnered to assist the volunteer fire department …
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass., has agreed to a $60 million settlement with its insurer for damage done to a parochial high school and other church property by a tornado two years ago. The resolution with insurer Catholic …
Tornadoes tore through eastern Japan on Monday, injuring dozens of people, at least one seriously, and destroying some buildings. Police in Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo, said 63 people were reported injured. Details of their injuries were not immediately available. Kyodo …
With thousands of destroyed houses, forty-six deaths and damage estimates topping the $5 billion mark, victims of Oklahoma’s two EF-5 tornadoes are asking the same question: What have we learned? The answers are almost as varied as those asking the …
An arbitration panel has ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield should get as much as $49 million from its insurance company to replace Cathedral High School, which sustained such severe damage during a 2011 tornado that it’s been …
Roosevelt County officials are assessing the damage done by a tornado that touched down about 20 miles north of Poplar, Montana. Emergency services coordinator Dan Sietsema says at least two farm sites were hit by the tornado Monday afternoon, causing …
Northeast Kansas counties that were hit by a tornado and flooding in late May are waiting to hear if storms caused enough damage to make the region eligible for state or federal aid. An EF-2 tornado hit Marshall County on …