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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Top Turner Report Joplin Tornado links from October

Meet the 10 for Joplin families

Ten for Joplin: Raising the Wall


People Magazine names C. J. Huff one of top heroes for 2011

Video: Barry Manilow donates $300,000 worth of band equipment

"Move that Bus" Extreme Makeover project completed

Joplin Tornado costs Empire Electric $20 million to $30 million

Extreme Makeover's Ty Pennington on Joplin Project: This is the biggest we've ever pulled off

Extreme Makeover homes revealed to Joplin families

ESPN releases promo for Joplin "Outside the Lines" program

Video: Revelation of American Idol's David Cook as mystery performer at JHS Homecoming

Video from David Cook's performance at JHS Homecoming Dance

Joplin High School sophomore tells tornado story in Huffington Post blog

Will Norton inspires Western Kentucky professor to bring students to Joplin

Sample chapters from 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado

C. J. Huff: Board never hesitated to give me spending power without board approval to help tornado reocvery
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    I teach eighth grade communication arts (English) at East Middle School in Joplin. Before entering the teaching field, I spent 22 years as a reporter and editor for various Southwest Missouri newspapers. I have published three novels, Small Town News, Devil's Messenger, and No Child Left Alive, and four non-fiction books, The Turner Report, Newspaper Days, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, and Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Tornado.
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