AP:  Joplin, MO - A massive tornado that blasted a four mile path across southwestern Missouri slammed into this city with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, upending cars, and leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood.  An unknown number were killed in Joplin on Sunday night, and officials struggling to communicate without power and cellphone service were leery of putting a hard figure on a death toll they feared would rise after d...
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