The Cardinal

Five people including a child are dead after a fire broke out at an apartment building in southwest Missouri.The Wheaton Fire Department says fire crews found the victims in two separate units at the building. Wheaton Fire Department responded about 3:23 a.m. Thursday to the Blue Ridge Apartments, 300 S. Hill Street. Fire crews arrived [...]

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FBI agents are searching a Kansas landfill in connection with the disappearance of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl. Authorities say this is the second time the agency has been at the Deffenbaugh Industries landfill at Interstate 435 and Holliday Drive. The police and parents of missing 10-month-old Missouri girl, Lisa Irwin, are at odds about [...]

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Police in Kansas City, Mo. say their search for 10-month old Lisa Irwin goes on, with no solid leads and no suspects. Authorities say the child was taken from her crib, possibly leaving with an intruder through an open window. Lisa was last seen on Monday, October 3, 2011 about 10:30 p.m. when her mother [...]

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WARNING … some graphic language at the scene … “Is this Summerset apartments? Yes. They’re completely gone. I know.” Homes, apartments, a fitness center, gas station, tanning salon, DVD rental … everything is gone. All of it. Nothin’.

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A video taken in a Fastrip convenience store in Joplin, Missouri. The video exposure is dark, but the audio tells an incredible story of waiting for the approach of the tornado and feeling its impact. Huddled in the dark in a Fastrip convenience store/Conoco Phillips gas station while a tornado approaches, a crowd of people [...]

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Prepaid56: “Have you ever seen a rainbow like this? Amazing double rainbow seen over Spingfield MO just after a deadly tornado rips through Joplin.” A brilliant double rainbow was captured on video by at least three people near Springfield, Missouri located just east of Joplin, Missouri. The people would have been recording the rainbow facing [...]

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Video of large trees down in Minneapolis. Tornadoes ripped through parts of the Midwest on Sunday, killing at least one person in Minneapolis and injuring at least 29. AFTERMATH DAMAGE VIDEO … St. John’s Regional Medical Center Hit By Tornado, Causing Serious Damage Video showing extensive damage at St. John’s Regional Medical Center — especially [...]

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Explosions at night break levee: Suburban Memphis is preparing for a flood after the U.S. Army corp of engineers intentionally broke through a Missouri levee to save an Illinois town. Now the rush of water is headed toward Tennessee. Water has covered acres of rich farmland. The U.S. Army corp of engineers sacrificed 130,000 acres [...]

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INTERNAL DEBRIS AT AIRPORT TERMINAL CHANGES DIRECTION AS TORNADO PASSES Lambert-St. Louis International Airport officials released surveillance video that shows debris flying in one direction, and then at the end of the video — with lights out from an apparent power failure — the debris changes direction. The debris initially flies away from the security [...]

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Storms with heavy rain and tornados swept through northeastern Missouri and central Illinois, damaging barns and toppling utility poles and downing power lines. Illinois Tornado Reports for April 19, 2011 Two homes were destroyed and 15 others damaged near Girard, Illinois in Macoupin County — northeast of St. Louis. People were reported trapped where two [...]

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Two school buses carrying high school band students to a Six Flags amusement park crashed with a tractor-trailer truck on Interstate 44 near Gray Summit, Missouri Thursday. The freeway crash killed two people and injured dozens. Missouri Department of Transportation spokesman Jorma Duran confirmed the two deaths, but did not say whether the victims of [...]

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Jason Keith Hudgins, 29, of the 1200 block of South College Street in Auburn, Alabama, and Andrews John Evans, 34, of the 600 block of Overlook Road in Fultondale, Alabama, have been charged with burglary and criminal damage to property in Lake County, and multiple burglaries in Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. A big break [...]

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