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Young cousins still healing from tornado injuries
Lage Grigsby, 15, and Mason Lillard, 11, play with Duke (left) and Zeus at their grandparents’ home in Carthage. The cousins, who rode out the May 22 tornado in the Home Depot parking lot, are still recovering from their injuries.
Looking at Mason Lillard and Lage Grigsby today, it’s hard to conceive how close to death they were a year ago. Both suffered serious injuries when they and Sharon Lillard, inside the grandparents’ truck, were thrown across the Joplin Home Depot parking lot in the May 22 tornado.
Continued ... - Actors bring Book of Job to life for Joplin audiences
- Weather service implements storm warning changes after 2011 tornadoes
- Nearly 3,000 hit pavement in Joplin Memorial Run
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Pittsburg commission to consider agreements on intersections
The Pittsburg City Commission on Tuesday will consider agreements to proceed with improvements to intersections at Broadway and 20th Street and Broadway and Centennial Avenue.
- VIDEO: St. John's releases security camera footage from May 22
- Groundbreakings at three schools to mark tornado anniversary
- Faiths share common denominator in service focusing on Joplin’s spirit
- Actors bring Book of Job to life for Joplin audiences
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Pittsburg commission to consider agreements on intersections
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Fryar: First steps to recovery came quickly last May
A few items remain from my former life, strewn about in a surprisingly apt manner.
- Southwest preps for top-ranked Clever
- New champion to be crowned at MWGA
- College Heights' Savannah Beaver wins 800 meters in Class 2 state track meet
- Joplin Memorial Run winners prevail despite 'slow' run
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Fryar: First steps to recovery came quickly last May
- Crime & Courts
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Accused abuser of two girls to stand trial
A Webb City man, against whom a charge of sexual abuse of a child was dismissed in 2009, was ordered bound over for trial Thursday, not only on that refiled charge but also on three other counts with respect to two alleged victims.
- Man, charged in Sunday incident, arrested again
- Boy’s death focus of OSBI probe in Ottawa County
- Joplin man enters guilty plea in sports gambling operation
- Alba man pleads guilty to bank robberies
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Accused abuser of two girls to stand trial
- Death Notices
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Betty A. Burnett
AURORA, Mo. - Betty Ann Burnett, 83, passed away Saturday, May 19, 2012. - Hazel Adams
- Ella C. O'Neal
- Steve Scott
- Conner J. Kreider
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Betty A. Burnett
- Opinion
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Other Views: When is a right a right?
The framers of the U.S. Constitution were admirably clear, or so they and we thought, when they wrote in the Fifth Amendment that no person shall “be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.”
Continued ... - Phill Brooks, columnist: Stumbling blocks hinder Legislature
- Other Views: War on terror isn't over
- Kathleen Sebelius, guest columnist: Hospitals show collaborative ingenuity
- Roy Blunt, guest columnist: Spirit of Joplin resilient one year after disaster
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- Business
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Stocks open higher on Wall Street; Facebook falls
Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street after a new survey suggested that economists are more optimistic about housing and employment. Facebook slid below its initial offering price.
Continued ... - Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC
- Oklahoma City group buys Dippin’ Dots for $12.7M
- Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
- Competition to perform organ transplants is heating up in Florida
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Spiva Center for the Arts unveils exhibits that highlight tornado’s damage; victims’ recovery
The two portraits encompass the range of emotions felt by tornado victims who posed for photographer Robert X. Fogarty, whose work is one of two tornado-related photography exhibits that open at Spiva Center for the Arts today:
- Police forces square off in fundraising football game
- Hip-hop featured in downtown party
- Joe Hadsall: While not hopeful, emotion is heartfelt
- Jeremiah Tucker: ’90s bands now packaging themselves for tours
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- National News
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France’s Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout
In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year’s end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job.
- Man who had 30 kids with 11 women wants child-support break
- ’Extras’ now offered in sale of Hepburn estate
- House OKs $642 billion defense bill
- Head of JPMorgan summoned to testify about bank’s huge trading loss
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- Obituaries
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Ella C. O'Neal
Ella Claudine (Ross) ONeal, 79, of Galena, Kan., formerly, of Joplin, Mo., and Weir, Kan., passed away at 4:23 p.m., Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Galena Nursing Center.
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- Viola Jordan
- Deborah Fitzgerald
- Sharon Pauline Vance
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Ella C. O'Neal
