Federal government to pay 90 percent of Joplin cleanup costs

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | 2:58 p.m. CDT; updated 11:09 a.m. CDT, Thursday, June 16, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon said the federal government agreed to pay a greater-than-usual share of the cleanup costs from the deadly tornado that struck Joplin.

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