Harrisburg

• Darrell Osman raced to his mothers home after a tornado slammed into downstate Harrisburg this morning, arriving just in time to speak to her before she was taken to a hospital with a head injury, a severe cut to her neck and a broken arm and leg.
(Chicago Tribune)
• HARRISBURG, Illinois (Reuters) - Powerful storms that spawned tornadoes ripped through the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, including six in Illinois who were crushed when a house was lifted up and fell on them, authorities said.
(Chicago Tribune)
• At least six people -- four women and two men -- were killed in the town of Harrisburg, Ill., according to Lt. Tracy Felty of the Saline County Sheriffs Office. The tornado hit Harrisburg, 50 miles southwest of Evansville, Ind., around 5 a.m.
(ABC News)
• HARRISBURG, Ill. _ When Danielle Mathews said she heard a tornado siren at her Harrisburg apartment, she called her friend Angela Capps, who lives in the same complex, and told her to immediately take cover.
(PennLive.com)
• (AP) HARRISBURG, Ill. - A pre-dawn twister flattened entire blocks of homes in a small Illinois town Wednesday as violent storms ravaged the Midwest and South, killing at least 12 people in three states.
(CBS News)
• HARRISBURG, Ill. — A powerful storm system tore through parts of the Midwest and South on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, leaving pockets of devastation across several states and marking the acceleration of another deadly tornado season.
(New York Times)
• HARRISBURG — The Harrisburg School Board on Tuesday approved a calendar for the 2012-2013 school year that will bring students back to the classroom about two weeks earlier than in prior years.
(PennLive.com)
• HARRISBURG, Ill. — Residents in the path of Wednesday mornings deadly tornado were astounded at how quickly it came, devastated, and moved on.
(Evansville Courier-Press)
• HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) — Twisters roared through the nation's heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least nine people.
(Chicago Sun-Times)
• HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) - The National Weather Service has given the deadly tornado that leveled parts of the southern Illinois community of Harrisburg an EF4 rating. EF4 is the second-highest rating given to twisters.
(KSDK)