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Water and hot cooked meals being provided to victims of Friday's tornado

Entire towns were devastated across Mississippi over the weekend in a tornado outbreak that killed at least 21 people.

ROLLING FORK, MS (WOWK) — Just 72 hours after an EF-4 tornado rolled through Rolling Fork, Mississippi, storm chaser Chris Hall based out of Hazard, Kentucky is still on scene trying to help storm victims. Hall is a storm chaser under the brand 606 Storm Chasing, and part of a relief team known as the […]

Rolling Fork, Miss. - There is no funeral home where the dead can be buried.The few restaurants or food stalls in town have not reopened, so many people

ROLLING FORK, Mississippi: A powerful tornado has struck Mississippi, killing at least 25 people, injuring dozens, flattening entire blocks and obliterating houses in Rolling Fork, Mississippi Delta. One person was also killed in Alabama. Over the weekend, rescuers raced to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless. The tornado reduced homes to […]

As the thunder roared outside and the lights inside Chuck's Dairy Bar began to blink, owner Tracy Harden realized the tornado conditions forecasted for her

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet, peaceful life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado swept up a neighbor’s semi-truck and dropped it onto their brick home like a bomb, killing the married couple. A retired welder, Lonnie Pierce was fond of hunting and bass fishing, friends and […]

Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the U.S., and the majority-Black Delta has long been one of the poorest parts of Mississippi — a place where many people work paycheck to paycheck in jobs tied to agriculture.

The nonprofit The American Service is helping organize a small group of Ukrainian refugees, some of whom have only lived in the Twin Cities a few months, to deliver supplies and aid to tornado victims in Mississippi.

The storms killed more than two dozen people and left hundreds of people homeless.