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U.S. Sen. John Boozman couldn't help but remember the last time he visited tornado-ravaged sites in Faulkner County. It was in June, several weeks after he had undergone emergency heart surgery.

"I think my first official" visit as senator after the surgery was to the tornado-stricken towns of Vilonia and Mayflower, the Republican senator told city and county officials gathered Wednesday at Vilonia City Hall.

"I was pretty sick," Boozman recalled of the time he spent recovering from surgery for a torn aorta, just days before the EF4 tornado struck parts of Faulkner, Pulaski and White counties on April 27, 2014.

The twister killed 16 people, 12 of whom were in Faulkner County, and wiped out entire neighborhoods...