We are 40 miles south of Joplin in Arkansas. My wife did charity work in Haiti and I was in Japan when the earthquake hit. When we heard about the tornado damage we knew we had to help out.

Besides chaos, John Decker also found an amazing sense of resiliency in Joplin, Mo. The mixture of emotions stemmed from his experience in a town devastated by a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — Multiple families are left to pick ... Joplin fire officials say six of the 24 apartments suffered significant damage. The cause of the fire is still undetermined, but the Joplin ...

Her work took her from the unemployment lines, to a methamphetamine bust, to the tornado damage aftermath in Joplin, Mo.