Kentucky

A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations

A line of severe storms damaged homes, knocked out power and downed trees in parts of the southern United States late Saturday into Sunday morning

Nine days after a tornado demolished his three-story office building in downtown Mayfield, Kentucky, Sonny “Hoot” Gibson was standing in the rubble and heard a faint meow.

Jordan Baize recently went viral when he played the grand piano in his damaged home — missing its roof after a storm and destructive tornado hit Kentucky on December 10. Though the storm was tragic, it has also brought people together to help rebuild, he says.

Jason Prather has worked on amusement park attractions in over 20 states and has worked abroad in Japan and France.

Gov. Andy Beshear says all of the people reported missing in Kentucky after tornadoes swept through the state last weekend have been accounted for.

Two employees of the Red Cross in Connecticut headed to Kentucky this week to help victims of the deadly tornadoes there.

Several tight-knit communities of the South and Midwest are turning to the somber task of burying their dead after tornadoes killed dozens of people across eight states

Sarah Farmer is helping Mayfield, Kentucky rebuild after a tornado and devastating storm struck. The community needs food and assistance repairing damaged homes as some families prepare to bury loved ones lost in the storm.

President Joe Biden is pledging to do “whatever it takes, as long as it takes” to help Kentucky and other states recover and rebuild after a series of deadly tornadoes that he says left a trail of unimaginable devastation

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said state investigators will probe the Mayfield candle factor where workers said they were threatened with termination if they left their shifts early.

At least 74 people were confirmed dead in the state, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday, and that number will likely continue rising.

Workers, volunteers and members of the National Guard were spreading across tornado-damaged areas of Kentucky to assist with recovery tasks large and small.

As a catastrophic tornado approached, employees of a candle factory — which would later be destroyed — heard the warning sirens and wanted to leave. But at least four workers told NBC News supervisors warned employees they would be fired if they left shifts early.

Allison Rogers has seen tornado damage before in her career, but the damage in Mayfield, Kentucky brings back memories of one of the worst storms the U.S. has seen – Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed her Mississippi hometown in 2005. Rogers, a meteorologist at WLWT in Cincinnati, Ohio, shows us the scene in Kentucky and explains how the National Weather Service...

At least 88 people — including 74 in Kentucky — were killed by the tornado outbreak that also destroyed a nursing home in Arkansas, heavily damaged an Amazon distribution center in Illinois and spread its deadly effects into Tennessee and Missouri.