Twisters Hit Insurers

Record tornado damages, the weakening economy and a drop in premiums may reduce insurers' earnings by 30 percent, the steepest second-quarter decline since 2002.The industry's slump in profits is worse than all 24 groups in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index except for...

Deadly twisters, hail hit Upper Plains (AP)

" NICOLLET, Minn. - Lumber from obliterated buildings was scattered among corn stalks, concrete foundations were exposed where houses once stood and silos were crushed like empty aluminum cans after deadly storms swept across the northern Plains with twisters and large hail....