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9 killed as powerful storm sweeps the Midwest

Posted: 02.29.2012 at 8:38 AM Updated: 02.29.2012 at 1:10 PM

Sherry Cousins and her brother Bruce Wallace of Hollister, Mo., sit in the wreckage of their secondhand store in Branson, Mo, Wednesday. / AP photo

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An apparent twister rolled through Branson, Mo., just before 1 a.m. and seemed to hopscotch up the city's main roadway, ripping roofs off hotels and damaging some of the city's famed music theaters.

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