UPDATE: First person on Joplin missing list found alive

Thursday, May 26, 2011 | 5:16 p.m. CDT; updated 5:35 p.m. CDT, Thursday, May 26, 2011

JOPLIN — As emergency workers in Joplin searched Thursday for more than 230 people listed as missing after a tornado tore through the city, one was sitting in a wooden chair outside the wreckage of her home, cuddling her cat.

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