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sites for replacement buildings, including Joplin High School's future home.
• Gov. Jay Nixon, who joined President Barack Obama on Monday night as a Joplin High School graduation speaker, plans to attend a sunrise service and "journey of healing" at Freeman Hospital honoring the city's medical workers and volunteers who have aided the recovery. The hospital has seen a surge in use after the tornado destroyed St. John's Regional Medical Center, which has since occupied a succession of temporary facilities but is being rebuilt at a new location -- and renamed as Mercy Hospital Joplin.
• A 4-mile unity walk through some of the city's hardest hit neighborhoods begins at 2 p.m. in neighboring Duquesne, where more than one-fourth of the community's 750 homes were destroyed and nine people died. The Joplin portion of the walk begins past a Wal-Mart where 200 people survived the storm by huddling together in employee break rooms, bathrooms and other designated safe zones. Three people, though, were killed inside that store.
• The walk will conclude with a moment of silence at Cunningham Park at 5:41 p.m., the precise time when the EF-5 tornado packing 200 mph winds hit Joplin. The city park, which is across the street from the hulking remains of the St. John's hospital, has since been rebuilt.
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- Activists and state media say a bomb has exploded in the Syrian capital, killing at least five people.
• The blast appears to have targeted a restaurant, according to photographs released Tuesday by the state-run news agency SANA.
• SANA and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group said the blast occurred late Monday in the Damascus neighborhood of Qaboun.
• Qaboun has been the site of anti-government protests since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March 2011.
• The tightly-controlled Syrian capital has been hit by a wave of explosions, mostly targeting security agencies.
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