Tornadoes kill at least 17
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes swept across the Southern United States and killed at least 17 people across three states, ripping up a hospital and a high school, CNN and Fox News reported on Friday.
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Unseasonably warm air touched off a flurry of tornadoes across the Midwest on Monday night, killing two people in Missouri and smashing homes and cars, and knocking over railroad cars, in a swath extending from Oklahoma to southern Wisconsin.
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A tornado destroyed two mobile home parks, killing one person, and blew out windows in buildings across the town, officials said Monday. At least 18 people were injured.
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One person was killed and at least  19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through  New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane  Katrina.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through central Florida early on Friday, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of buildings, officials said.
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Tornadoes ripped across the  Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday, killing at  least 14 people including eight in the southern Alabama town of  Enterprise, emergency management officials said.
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Under sunny skies, members of the Church of God in Lady Lake, Florida, held their morning worship service today amid the remnants of their destroyed sanctuary, leveled by a pre-dawn tornado. The National Weather Service said three tornadoes were responsible for killing at least 20 people and causing catastrophic damage.
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Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Stella Chambers' modest red-brick house had finally been repaired, and she was waiting for one last utility hookup to move back in. But the 85-year-old woman never made it. A tornado tore through her neighborhood in the city's Gentilly neighborhood before daybreak Tuesday, flattening her house, ripping apart the front-yard FEMA trailer in which she was living, and killing her.
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One person was killed and at least 19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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By BOB JOHNSON ENTERPRISE, Ala. - Tornadoes ripped through Alabama and killed at least seven people Thursday, including five at a high school where students became pinned under debris when a roof collapsed, state officials said.
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Tornadoes swept through southern Missouri around dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and killing at least one person a few hours after another twister touched down in Kansas, authorities said.
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Eight people died when an apparent tornado struck a high school in Alabama. Nine people were killed in Georgia.
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State-by-state look at deaths and damage caused by the string of tornadoes that tore across the South and the Midwest:
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At least 12 people have been killed by storm and tornadoes brought by Hurricane Ivan, which slammed ashore early Thursday in the Gulf Coast area in southern United States
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Residents tried Thursday to put their lives back together in a swath of the South raked by tornadoes that killed 55 people on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
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Tornadoes and other severe weather raked the Deep South on Tuesday, pushing Mississippi River ships around like toys, damaging homes and killing at least one person.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas  - Tornadoes and thunderstorms ravaged four states in the American South on Tuesday night, killing at least 20 people, injuring dozens and causing widespread damage, emergency services and local media said.