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KOAM-TV Saves Lives During Tornado


Topic: Disaster Relief and Recovery
Posted on 6/19/2019

Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves wrote a letter thanking Morgan Murphy Media’s CBS affiliate KOAM-TV Joplin, MO., for their “amazing coverage” of tornados that landed in late May 2019. "Their efforts to provide timely and accurate information to the public, without a doubt in my mind, allowed us to escape any serious injuries or deaths in our immediate area."



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