Tornadoes kill 19; school collapses
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least 19 people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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Students took shelter in dormitory bathrooms as a tornado reduced the buildings to rubble around them at Union University.
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Displaced central Florida residents spent the night in shelters after a line of storms packing at least one tornado killed 19 people. A massive cleanup effort awaits them. Gov. Charlie Crist planned to tour the area Saturday with FEMA's director, assessing what one official called "complete devastation" of homes, businesses and churches.
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In the science wing at Enterprise High School, Marisa Younanian huddled for hours with her classmates in the protection of an interior hallway as tornado sirens wailed throughout town. They joked and thought about how hungry they were.
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ATKINS, Ark. -- Authorities went door-to-door early Wednesday searching for more victims of deadly tornadoes that ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses as they tore across four states. At least 33 people were reported dead throughout the South.
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Nineteen people were killed on Friday when severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado splintered homes and left a trail of devastation through central Florida, an emergency center spokesman said.
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Rescuers were searching under the rubble for more victims early today after tornadoes in the central and southeastern United States killed at least 11 people. Twisters killed seven people in Alabama, three in Georgia and one in Missouri.
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A powerful storm system with multiple tornadoes collapsed the roof of a mall in Memphis, trapping people inside, and trapped students in dormitories at a college in Jackson, the Nashville Tennessean reported on Tuesday.
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Tornadoes rip across four US states, causing death and destruction
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Dozens of tornadoes sliced across southern US states, ripping apart homes and shopping malls, killing at least 52 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said Wednesday.
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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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A freak cluster of tornadoes raked across an unseasonably warm Midwest, demolishing houses, knocking railroad cars off their tracks and even temporarily halting justice in one courthouse
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Fourteen people were killed  and dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed when tornadoes  ripped through central Florida on Friday, an official said.
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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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Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier.
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A system of powerful storms packing tornadoes passed from Alabama into Georgia Thursday night, hitting a hospital and causing at least nine deaths, a state official said.
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By JIM ELLIS LADY LAKE, Fla. - Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search for bodies Friday after powerful storms, including at least one tornado, smashed hundreds of homes across central Florida and killed 19 people or more.