The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has activated the state’s Temporary Disaster Housing Assistance Program. Gov. Phil Bryant says in a news release he took action after President Barack Obama denied Mississippi’s request for FEMA assistance to victims of the Dec. …
When the big twister hit, Maylene Sorrels huddled with her students in the halls of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. Cowering, she covered the student’s heads. Then Sorrels, a teacher’s aide, tried to reassure her kids they would …
A center that helped people left homeless by the Joplin tornado in May 2011 is preparing to close. The Human Services Campus was opened next to a mobile home park provided for tornado victims after the storm. It allowed about …
Owners and tenants of a Springfield, Mass., condominium complex damaged by last year’s tornadoes have filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging officials prematurely ordered the demolition of a building, robbing occupants of potentially salvageable personal items as well as …
More than half of Americans don’t have a home inventory of their possessions, according to a February 2012 survey from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. This was highlighted by the many Joplin residents who were underinsured when the tornado …