One child born just before the tornado, one born just after. Between those births, Joplin changed with the speed of a fastball.
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Dowe Quick has been with KOAM News since October 1980. He has won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting as well as numerous awards from Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma Broadcasting Associations for his reporting.
Police in Miami, Oklahoma say two people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting Tuesday evening. They say one of the dead is a suspect.
Some communities report power outages due to storms that rumbled through southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma and southwest Missouri Monday night.
A Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated hasn’t announced whether it will reopen, but it isn’t hiring lifeguards, advertising or selling tickets with less than a month left before its typical Memorial Day weekend opening date.
Jared Swann has been a Joplin DWI officer since 2013. In this clip, he talks about the 1999 crash that motivates him.
“Obviously, that’s going to be an issue with some jurors,” Scouby says. “…because the person presumably is going to be sober when they come to court.”
Authorities have charged an eastern Missouri dog trainer with animal abuse following the death of a dog.
Police in Oklahoma have arrested a man who they say stole an empty school bus and took it for a joyride.
Police say the Tulsa Public School bus was stolen early Monday when the driver went into a gas station and left the bus running.
Charges have been filed against an Oklahoma woman suspected of spray painting racist, anti-gay and anti-Semitic graffiti on Democratic Party offices in Norman and Oklahoma City.