Thirteen Red Cross disaster volunteers from Missouri are on their way to the southeastern U.S. as Hurricane Helene approaches Florida and Georgia. Overall, the American Red Cross has sent around 360 trained disaster workers and several truckloads of supplies to open...
Bootheel tornado (Courtesy: Max Olson Chasing) The National Weather Service has updated the survey information on the deadly tornado that hit Missouri’s Bootheel on December 10th. The strong storm system moved across the central and southern U.S. involved 66 confirmed...
Tornadoes struck Missouri and five other states Friday night leaving possible 100 people dead and massive property damage in a long path. Max Olson, a storm chaser, captured some of the tornado activity in the Bootheel. Missourinet News tweeted alerts as the storms...
(Reporter Monte Lyons at Missourinet Kennett affiliate KBOA contributed to this story) A Georgia-based company announced Thursday that it plans to renovate and re-open a hospital in southeast Missouri’s Kennett, a hospital that’s been closed since 2018....
Southeast Missouri’s Kennett has lost its third major employer in three years. Missourinet affiliate KBOA in Kennett reports industrial hose manufacturer Parker Hannifin is closing by the end of September – putting 90 full-time workers out of jobs. Last year, the town...
