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A tornado destroyed 50 to 80 houses and killed at least one person in an Arkansas town on Monday, while a warning of imminent failure for a levee on the Black River in southeast Missouri prompted the mandatory evacuation of about 1,000 people.

This heat wave isn't just stifling -- it's deadly. Extreme temperatures continued Thursday across a large swath of the country, killing more than a dozen people, at least two police dogs and likely contributing to the death of Franklin the rhinoceros at a Mississippi zoo. Arkansas fire departments were volunteering to hose down overheated cattle, and people as far north as Maine were trying to stay cool.

Search crews on Monday found the last person known to have gone missing when a flash flood swept through a popular campground, but they planned to continue looking, authorities said Monday.

Flash floods killed at least 12 people at a campground in western Arkansas, state police said on Friday.

Tornadoes ripping through central Arkansas late Friday killed at least three people, injured 25 others and destroyed several ...

Officials in Drew County are going house-to-house in and around Monticello, Ark., where numerous trees were blown onto trailers and frame homes.