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A local business is resurrecting an old brand and helping to rekindle love for a musical instrument that was key to some ...
PITTSBURGH- The Kent State Golden Flashes baseball team came up short against the Pitt Panthers on Wednesday afternoon falling 13-17. The Flashes opened the scoring in the top of the first inning ...
March 18, 1925, what would be known as the Tri-State Tornado, leveled communities in its path including Griffin. Angela Mason grew up in Southern Illinois, just north of the path of the storm.
Modern standards qualify the so-called Tri-State Tornado as an F5, a mile-wide funnel with wind speeds greater than 260 mph (418 kph). Perhaps the best evidence of its destructive handiwork was ...
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. – Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the Tri-State tornado, the deadliest tornadic event in United States history. On March 18, 1925, hundreds of people died as a massive ...
It remains the worst tornado in U.S. history. Called the Tri-State Tornado, it started the afternoon of March 18, 1925, near Ellington, Missouri. For about four hours, the storm raced along a ...
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Tri-State Tornado hit on March 18, 1925, killing 695 people and marking a path of destruction for 219 miles. March 18, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the ...
JEFFERSON – With a two-day trial set for April 3 and 4, a Watertown woman facing two charges of felony theft instead pleaded no contest to a pair of misdemeanors in the case. Serena V. Bratz of ...
On March 18, 1925, the Tri-State Tornado struck southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southwestern Indiana, resulting in some 700 deaths. The tornado is considered the largest, longest ...
What eventually became known as the Tri-State Tornado ripped through the Waters’ home, leaving nothing but a splintered pile of lumber. It killed Martha’s dad, Lemuel, her grandfather ...
Unsurprisingly, music lessons were a struggle but, when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar hanging in a pawnshop window in Downtown Los Angeles. “I had never seen anything quite like it ...