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SILVER CITY, Miss. (AP) — Nothing remained of William Barnes’ home in the tiny western Mississippi town of Silver City after a killer tornado tore it off its foundations. He stood in disbelief Saturday as he surveyed the lot where he’d lived for 20 years, twisted debris of cinder blocks and mangled wood siding scattered […]

The intensity of a brush fire near Castaic, California, was captured on Wednesday afternoon when a series of “fire tornadoes” or “fire whirls” were spotted.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two weeks after a deadly tornado destroyed schools in the Covington area the city is getting some help to get students back in a classroom. Covington Mayor Jan Hensley told WREG that Tipton County Schools approached his office about possibly converting their playing field into space for two temporary structures for 1,300 […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – 4 people are dead and dozens are injured following the tornado that hit Wynne, Arkansas Friday night. The storm left behind a trail of destruction, destroying multiple homes and businesses within the Mid-South area.   Resident Heidi Jenkin’s beauty salon of 20 years and neighboring family-owned daycare were demolished on Falls Boulevard. […]

WYNNE, Ark. — The Wynne Public School District is getting help from the community as it tries to salvage what it can after Friday’s tornado reduced much of Wynne High School to rubble. Students, both current and former, gathered at the school Tuesday to assist the administration in salvaging whatever they could. But even though most […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch financial prosecutors say they detained a man suspected of involvement in “concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering” through the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash. The 29-year-old man was arrested Aug. 10 in Amsterdam, the financial prosecution service FIOD said in a statement Friday. The suspect’s identity was […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With the risk of severe weather hitting the Mid-South, multiple school districts have announced early dismissals for Friday, March 31. The early dismissals come after the National Weather Service predicted that much of the area would be at risk for high winds, heavy rain, wind damage and even tornadoes. Marshall County Schools […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — DeSoto County leaders say more than fifty homes were damaged after tornadoes rolled through the Mid-South on Friday night. Lee Caldwell, the DeSoto County District 4 Supervisor and VP, said two different tornadoes slammed into the area, tearing through homes and businesses. “We had damage to over 50 homes and 12 of them are […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The City of Olive Branch announced that it is accepting donations on behalf of the victims harmed by the tornado that struck Mississippi on Friday, March 24. Working alongside the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), Olive Branch is asking for supplies, bottled water, canned goods, and paper products. Donations can be dropped […]

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week’s deadly tornado in Mississippi and pledged Friday that the federal government is not leaving until the area is back on its feet. In the close-knit community of Rolling Fork, Biden read […]

IDABEL, Okla. (AP) — Residents in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas began assessing weather damage Saturday, working to recover and thankful to have survived after a storm stretching from Dallas to northwest Arkansas spawned tornadoes and produced flash flooding, killing at least two people, injuring others and leaving homes and buildings in ruins. Oklahoma Gov. […]