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the central missouri baseball party started the day with a loss and finished with a championship.the mules lost 11-4 to emporia state on sunday morning to complete a game suspended saturday Stygian by the weather in the double-elimination miaa baseball tournament.the mules recovered to beat fort hays state 4-2 in an elimination game and beat emporia state 4-3 to win the miaa championship.central missouri scored the go-ahead run in the sixth inning of the title game at communityamerica ballpark in kansas city, kan.blaine rutledge hit a leadoff solitary.

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Tornadoes leave at least 22 dead

PICHER, Oklahoma (CNN) — Residents in three Midwestern states spent Mother’s Day sifting through the wreckage of their homes, trying to recover from powerful storms that killed at least 22 people.

The storm system killed at least 21 people in the Midwest and then continued into the South on Sunday, killing one in Georgia and destroying a small town.

Sherri Mills was in the small Oklahoma town of Picher trying to find family pictures among wreckage that was a friend’s home. Mills said her friend was elsewhere when the tornado struck.

Thank God she wasn’t here, said Mills, standing in front of the piles of brick and wood. [She] lost everything. This was a two-story big brick home.

Another man in Picher said he was home with his family when the storm hit. He was blown around inside the home, and was lucky to be alive, he said.

We got down on the floor and huddled up together, and we weren’t in there 30 seconds when it hit the house, the man told CNN. We ended up right there under that door. At least, I was under the door, my wife, two granddaughters, and my daughter was all there, just bunched up against each other.

President Bush pledged federal support. Mother’s Day is a sad day for those who lost their lives in Oklahoma, Missouri and Georgia because of the tornadoes, he told reporters in Waco, Texas.

We send our prayers for those who lost their lives. The federal government will be moving hard to help, he added.

Later, aboard Air Force One, Bush contacted Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt. And after arriving at the White House, he spoke with Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry. Bush didn’t specify what support the federal government would give. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and FEMA boss David Paulison also were in touch with the governors.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, Lisa Janak with the state’s Emergency Management Agency said one person people was killed in Dublin, just south of Macon.

And the nearby town of Kite, with about 200 residents, was destroyed, she said. The report I am getting is the whole town is gone, Janak said. I have worked in emergency management for eight years, and I never received a report like that before.

Authorities fear there may be additional casualties in Missouri, said Susie Stonner, a spokeswoman with the State Emergency Management Agency in Jefferson City.

It’s dark, and it was over a wide area. Some of the houses have been completely destroyed, she said.

A twister touched down in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma shortly before 6 p.m. and killed seven people in Ottawa County, according to emergency officials. And a 20-mile area in Picher was destroyed, said Michelann Ooten, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

Another 150 were injured and an unknown number of people were missing.

Ooten said the town enlisted the help of firefighters from surrounding areas, who went house-to-house in a 20-block area, sifting through the rubble and searching for survivors.

It looks like a war zone, she said. Some homes have fallen in, some homes have lost roofs, and some are now just slabs.

Freelance journalist Mike Priest went to a heavy-hit neighborhood in Picher on Sunday, surveying an area where almost all the houses were were obliterated. Watch Priest film flattened houses

All the residents had left, abandoning their cars, clothes and even their pets, Priest said.

As you can see, some people’s pets have been left behind, and they are fighting over some food, Priest told CNN as he shot footage of the neighborhood. Just total devastation.

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Death toll climbs from Missouri, Oklahoma storms

(CNN) — At least 20 people were killed as tornadoes and severe weather swept the Midwest before rumbling into the Southeast on Sunday morning, according to emergency management agencies.

In the central Georgia town of Dublin, storms killed at least one person, Lisa Janak of the state Emergency Management Agency said.

The nearby town of Kite, home to about 200 residents, was destroyed, she said.

The report I am getting is the whole town is gone, said Janak. I have worked in emergency management for eight years and I never received a report like that before.

At least 80,000 residents were without electricity Sunday, mostly concentrated in the metro Atlanta and Macon areas, Georgia Power officials told The Associated Press. Watch how the storm slammed into Atlanta

The storm system moved into the Southeast after leaving 20 people dead — and homes and businesses in shambles — across Missouri and Oklahoma.

A tornado touched down about 5:42 p.m. in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, killing seven people and heavily damaging buildings in a 20-block area, the service said.

Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said about 150 people were injured in Picher, Oklahoma, and a number of people were missing.

She said the town enlisted the help of firefighters from surrounding areas who went house-to-house, sifting through rubble and searching for survivors. Watch residents survey mangled homes

It looks like a war zone, she said. Some homes have fallen in, some homes have lost roofs, and some are now just slabs.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said Picher’s victims include an infant, AP reported Sunday.

We’ve seen homes that were completely leveled to the foundation, Brown said. In a few of these homes you would have had to be subterranean to survive.

Ottawa County Emergency Manager Frank Geasland told AP that dozens of people were injured, some seriously.

Trees are toppled over, ripped apart, he said. There are cars thrown everywhere. It looks like a bomb went off, pretty much.

According to AP, other tornadoes were reported near McAlester and Haywood in Pittsburg County and in rural Pushmataha County, both in southeastern Oklahoma. Watch funnel clouds over Oklahoma

Television footage showed destroyed outbuildings and damaged homes west of McAlester and near Haywood. At a glass plant southwest of McAlester, the storm apparently picked up a trailer and slammed it down on garbage bins.

Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry and Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt are scheduled to visit the area Sunday.

Weather officials said a tornado touched down about 6 p.m. between Seneca and Neosho near the Missouri-Kansas border. Numerous injuries were reported, and U.S. 60, which runs into Interstate 44, was closed because of debris covering the road.

Ten people were killed in Newton County, Missouri, according to emergency officials.

About 6:20 p.m., a person was killed when thunderstorms knocked a tree onto a mobile home about four miles east of Carthage, Missouri, the weather service reported. Less than an hour later, another person was killed when a tornado damaged a church and several homes and mobile homes in the area of Purdy, Missouri.

Authorities fear there may be additional casualties in Missouri, said Susie Stonner, spokeswoman with the state Emergency Management Agency in Jefferson City, Missouri.

It’s dark and it was over a wide area. Some of the houses have been completely destroyed, she said. There’s a possibility there will be additional people.

In storm-weary Arkansas, a tornado collapsed a home and a business, and there were reports of a few people trapped in buildings, weather service meteorologist John Robinson told AP.

The AP reported Central Park Elementary School in the northwest Arkansas city of Bentonville had roof and window damage, and damage was also reported at Pine Creek Center School.

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Official: Zimbabwe runoff must be delayed

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s presidential runoff cannot take place in the time allotted by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has insisted the vote should be held within 21 days of the May 2 announcement of the results from the initial vote.

However, Zimbabwean government officials have said the electoral commission has up to a year to hold the runoff.

It was ambitious for the legislature to think 21 days would be enough, George Chiweshe was quoted as saying in the state-run Sunday Mail.

Chiweshe said the electoral body was still waiting for funds from the government to hold the poll. It took the commission more than a month to announce results from the March 29 election.

Tsvangirai maintains he won the first round outright and that official figures showing a second round was necessary were fraudulent.

Mugabe has been accused of orchestrating violence against the opposition since the first round, raising questions about whether a runoff would be free or fair. Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, meanwhile, has already launched its runoff campaign.

Tsvangirai said Saturday at a news conference in South Africa that although another election may bring more violence, he will return shortly to Zimbabwe to face Mugabe.

He and other top opposition figures have stayed out of Zimbabwe since the initial voting.

Speaking after a meeting with Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos later Saturday, Tsvangirai said he assured regional leaders that if he were to win the presidency, he would respect Mugabe’s place in Zimbabwe’s history.

Dos Santos is seen as close to Mugabe and heads the key political, defense and security committee of the Southern African Development Community.

Tsvangirai told reporters in the Angolan capital that he had assured dos Santos Mugabe would be treated as the father of the nation in the interest of building peace and stability in Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai prepares to take on Mugabe in the runoff.

That position appeared to indicate a softening: Tsvangirai told The Associated Press in an interview last month he believed the Zimbabwean people would press for Mugabe to stand trial for crimes against humanity.

Tsvangirai also said he spoke with dos Santos about escalating violence in Zimbabwe, and what needed to be done to improve conditions for the presidential runoff.

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights has said 22 people have died and 900 have been tortured in post-election violence, while 40,000 farm workers have been displaced in an effort to prevent them from voting in the runoff.

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Severe weather kills 11 in Missouri, Oklahoma

(CNN) — At least 11 people were killed in Oklahoma and Missouri on Saturday as tornadoes and other severe weather swept across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.

A tornado touched down about 5:42 p.m. in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, killing five people and heavily damaging buildings in a 20-block area, the service said.

Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said there were a number of people unaccounted for in Picher, Oklahoma.

She said the town enlisted the help of firefighters from surrounding areas who went house-to-house, sifting through the rubble and searching for survivors.

Three more people were killed when a tornado touched down about 6 p.m. between Seneca and Neosho near the Missouri-Kansas border. Numerous injuries were reported, and U.S. 60, which runs into Interstate 44, was closed due to debris covering the road.

About 6:20 p.m., a person was killed when thunderstorms knocked a tree onto a mobile home about four miles east of Carthage, Missouri, the weather service reported. And less than an hour later, another person was killed when a tornado damaged a church and several homes and mobile homes in the area of Purdy, Missouri.

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