After 10 to 15 inches of rain in the past seven days, much of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas is underwater. So much precipitation has fallen that major rivers have spread well beyond their banks. Muddy brown water is at the rooftops in the hardest-hit communities.

Flood damage is mounting to the south and west of the Cape Girardeau area, with many victims in the hardest-hit areas experiencing loss of phone service, including cellphones, and in some places electricity and tap water.

Residents we spoke to in Neosho say as much as three feet of water got into their homes. One man says he lost everything, while others were able to salvage some of their stuff.

Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.

Authorities in southwest Missouri believe a tornado is responsible for severe damage to several buildings, including a fire station and elementary school. The small town of Goodman was hit hard by a severe storm Tuesday evening.

Three people are dead and four were injured after a boiler exploded at a box company near Soulard.

When mass-producing packaged foods, one of the goals is to prevent pieces of the processing equipment out of the food. A plant that makes José Olé products came up short of that aspiration, resulting in a recall of 17.5 tons of taquitos that could contain pieces of plastic and rubber.

A wild crash on Interstate 270 this week is sparking an important conversation about road rage. On Wednesday, Bradley Derges was driving to a work meeting when he says three cars drove past him at extremely high speeds on I-270 South passed Manchester Road.

When most people think of hurricanes, they think of mighty storm surges pounding coastal communities. But a team of researchers who studied 28 hurricanes from 2001 to 2014 found that freshwater flooding, sometimes thousands of miles inland, can cause even greater destruction.

The Midwest was slammed with 29 reported tornadoes Monday, according to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, leaving behind a trail of damaged homes and displaced and injured residents.

On Friday, the meteorology community was riding a major high as stunningly high-definition images came in from the nation’s newest and much-anticipated earth observation satellite. The high came crashing down that evening, though, as the first hints of significant cuts to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began to emerge.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: You don’t want your vehicle to catch on fire. For that reason, Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 354,000 vehicles.

An annual state-by-state analysis of auto insurance reveals rates continue to increase after filing just a single claim. According to a fourth annual study by insuranceQuotes, drivers now pay an average of 44 percent more for car insurance after making a single claim of $2,000 or more.

Residents began the long process to clean up the damage left behind by a tornado outbreak that hit the Midwest, where three people were killed. About 20 tornadoes have been confirmed from the outbreak, and survey teams from the National Weather Service had more work to do Thursday.

Tornadoes touched down in the upper Midwest and northern Arkansas on Tuesday, killing at least two people, as a spring-like storm system posed a risk to 45 million people.