Dollywood has been a Pigeon Forge fixture for 40 years - but the land the park occupies has been a tourist attraction for far longer than that.

The Tri-State Tornado destroyed whole towns and killed almost 700 people in Southern Indiana and Illinois 100 years ago.

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Missouri has become the seventh-largest state for weed sales since it legalized recreational marijuana in 2022, putting it ahead of such places as Arizona and Washington, which have bigger populations ...

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The deadliest twister in recorded U.S. history struck 100 years ago Tuesday, touching down in southeastern Missouri and tearing up everything in its 219-mile (352-kilometer) path for nearly four hours ...

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A small-town lawyer arguing ... Iowa-based member of the the D-I Missouri Valley Conference, hired McCollum to take over after Darian DeVries left to coach West Virginia. Drake had won 28 games ...

Police said a Drexel, Missouri, firefighter and his wife were hit in Tuesday's building crash in Louisburg, Kansas. Firefighter Anthony Juarez was killed.