On Friday, May 22, 2026, Operation BBQ Relief® (OBR) will return to the city where its mission began, setting up at Cunningham Park in Joplin, Mo. to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2011 ...

Friday marks the day 15 years ago an EF5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri. The massive supercell that formed over southwest Missouri on May 22, 2011 brought on a mile-wide tornado that ran 20 miles ...

Today, most children in Joplin Schools have no direct memory of the May 22, 2011, tornado, it having happened before they were born. But Joplin’s response captured the attention of the country, ...

Today, he is Mercy Joplin Community’s new president, but 15 years ago, Jeff Carrier worked for Freeman Health System and saw how the two hospitals came together to make sure victims of the May 22, ...

The EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, became the deadliest in modern history — killing 158 people. Although little damage is now visible to the naked eye, to the survivors, ...

On May 22, 2011, the deadliest tornado to strike the United States in half a century roared into the heart of Joplin, Mo., with winds of 200 mph. It killed nearly 160 people, injured about 1,100 ...

Exactly one year after a deadly EF5 tornado struck Joplin, a lone bell was struck at 5:41 p.m., May 22, 2012. Its reverberation carried over the silent crowd of mostly ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Friday marks 15 years since a deadly EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri. Former Joplin Police Chief Lane Roberts and now a Missouri state representative recalls that ...

In the aftermath of disaster, neighbors came together to rebuild their community safer, stronger and better. | Opinion ...

Eight years after a break‑in took his class ring, a Wichita man finally has it back thanks to an unexpected discovery in a neighborhood trinket box.