Author: Jim Slater
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Funerals begin: White gloves, small casket, overflow crowd
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UVALDE, Texas • A week after a gunman ran into a Texas grade school and started shooting, the first of 21 funerals began Tuesday. Meanwhile, at least one family still hasn’t seen the body of their loved one. Hundreds of mourners turned out for an afternoon Mass to remember Amerie Jo Garza. Six pallbearers wearing…
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30 tornadoes, more flooding from storms in central U.S.
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ST. LOUIS • A strong band of storms brought more than 30 tornadoes across the central U.S., damaged homes in Oklahoma, demolished a racetrack grandstand in Missouri and drenched waterlogged states with more water and more flooding. The severe weather started in the Southern Plains on Monday night and moved to the northeast. Missouri and…
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Midwest downpours prompt more evacuations, flash flood fears
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. • Rain swamping the nation’s midsection forced people from their homes in Kansas, stranded dozens of Texas children at school overnight and strained levees along the surging Mississippi River in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere Wednesday prompting yet more flash flood concerns. The flooding began in earnest in March, causing billions of dollars…
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More evacuations in Midwest as floodwaters head downstream
ST. LOUIS • Residents in parts of southwestern Iowa were forced out of their homes Sunday as a torrent of Missouri River water flowed over and through levees, putting them in a situation similar to hundreds of people in neighboring Nebraska who have been displaced by the late-winter flood. Heavy rainfall and snowmelt have led…