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Authorities are investigating the disappearance of a Carlisle car salesman after he did not show up for work late last week.

One month ago a devastating EF 5 tornado ripped through the town of Parkersburg, Iowa.

Midwestern cable operators are still reeling after enduring more than a month of high winds, record-breaking rain and flooding that put their plant and employees at peril.

Over the past couple of weeks, one eastern Iowa community has received a one, two punch from mother nature.

NEW HARTFORD, IOWA -- A small sign taped to the glass front door of the town's hardware store still pleads for donations to the victims of the tornado.

Gina Rebitz and Bruce Recker don't have much to smile about lately - after their dream home was wiped out by a tornado; their next home swept through by a flood.

New Hartford, Ia. - More than three weeks ago, Meinard Koop's corn and soybean fields were filled with debris from a tornado that ravaged several houses in this northeast Iowa town.

A Mobile Disaster Recovery Center has re-opened at the New Hartford Fire Station, 318 Packwaukee St., New Hartford.

People are being displaced from their homes, commuters are finding fewer and fewer avenues to get to and from work, crops are suffering and morale is in the gutter.

NEW HARTFORD, Iowa - Only two weeks ago, it was a deadly tornado. Earlier this week, it was flooding.

Severe flooding is forcing authorities to order an evacuation of the community of New Hartford.

Aplington-Parkersburg High School industrial tech teacher Brian Surratt kicks the remains of the home he built himself.

Security video captured incredible footage of a tornado striking a bank in Iowa.

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A second Disaster Recovery Center is now open in Butler County . A Mobile DRC is now in downtown New Hartford, at the fire station , to provide face-to-face assistance to those who suffered damage in the recent ...

Home Depot employees Thanh Nguyen hands a case of bottled water to Brandon Powell both of Cedar Rapids as a disaster response crew composed of workers from the Waterloo and Cedar Rapids Home Depots provide ...

Cool Air Rescue A press of unseasonably cool air has ended the threat of damaging thunderstorms over the northern Plains and portions of the Midwest.

A temporary shelter is set up in Parkersburg at the elementary school for storm victims.

By REID FORGRAVE * rforgrave@dmreg.com * Photos by CHRIS GANNON * May 26, 2008 Nancy Ferguson, shown here in 2003, carried a tumor in her abdomen that had grown to 66 pounds by the time it was removed in 2004.

Severe thunderstorms including tornadoes have assaulted parts of the nation's midsection again.