&#36;7.5M released for Kan. tornado cleanup
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and legislative leaders authorized $7.5 million Wednesday to help rebuild this tornado-damaged state, where deadly twisters killed 12 people and leveled a farming town last month.
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Tornadoes swept through southern Missouri at dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and killing a 7-year-old girl a few hours after another twister touched down in Kansas
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Two tornadoes swept through south-central Missouri Friday afternoon, damaging more than 100 homes and tearing off part of a roof at a middle school moments after a tornado drill. No deaths had been reported.
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By Bob Jordan, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 3--HOWELL -- A Lakewood developer has agreed to create a $5 million  fund for the environmental cleanup of the 213-acre Frequency Engineering  Laboratories site it recently acquired.
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By Barbara J. Isenberg, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Mar. 1--Values for nearly 70 percent of Sedgwick County homes will increase this year, with a median increase of 6 percent, County Appraiser Michael Borchard said Wednesday.
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The families of seven of the people killed or injured in the Texas A&amp;M University bonfire collapse will share &#36;4.25 million in a partial settlement of a lawsuit, an attorney said.
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More than a dozen tornadoes were reported last night and early today in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Officials are trying to confirm the tornado reports and assess the damage as the powerful storm front heads across the Plains toward the Southeast. The National Weather Service declared the storm's projected path a high-risk area, "which is a pretty rare forecast for us," one meteorologist said.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec.
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN WICHITA, Kan. - The response by emergency workers following a tornado that ripped through Greensburg recently shared at least one thing with the reaction to a massive ice storm in January that downed power lines for days in the same region.
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Utility crews have nearly completed the huge job of returning power to homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where as many as 600,000 customers were blacked out by last week's deadly winter storm
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treating winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding.
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco said her administration has found up to $700 million in state money to put into Louisiana's grant program for rebuilding hurricane-damaged homes, which faces a deficit of as much as $5 billion.
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Tornadoes and hail struck several towns in southern Minnesota, killing one man, damaging cars and ripping roofs off at least a dozen homes. The man who died was trapped in a house near Kasota when a tornado hit Thursday, said Tom Doherty, chief sheriff's deputy in Le Sueur County.
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RALEIGH, NC -- Progress Energy says it will take nearly $300 million to restore downed electrical lines, splintered utility poles and blasted transformers in hurricane-ravaged Florida.
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Three weeks of crippling snow storms across China have inflicted $7.5 billion in damages, the government said Friday, as it announced a $700 million relief fund for farmers
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An audit found improvement in the Environmental Protection Agency&#39;s recent budgets, including a reduction of the Superfund deficit from $82.7 million to $7.6 million in 2004.