High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family

Friends and neighbors say retirees Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado dropped a semi-truck onto their home like a bomb.
Nashville shooter was ex-student with detailed plan to kill

The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.
Doctor decries gun violence after school shooting near miss

A pediatric surgeon who left The Covenant School in Nashville moments before a shooter opened fire, killing six people, says she is horrified by the gun violence that has plagued the U.S. Britney Grayson had just finished regaling children about Kenya, where she works as a pediatric surgeon, when she drove out of the parking lot looking for a Starbucks.
U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022

The U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal electricity production in the United States for the first time in 2022.
Wyoming abortion clinic fire suspect to go free pending case

A woman accused of setting fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic will be released from jail while her case proceeds.
Fed official: Bank rules under review in wake of SVB failure

The Federal Reserve’s bank supervisors informed Silicon Valley Bank’s management as early as the fall of 2021 of risks stemming from its unusual business model, a top Fed official said, but the bank’s managers failed to take the steps necessary to fix its problems.
Arizona governor: scheduled execution is unlikely next week

A vow by Arizona’s governor not to proceed with any executions amid lingering questions about the rights of death row inmates appears to have paused a scheduled execution next week.
Police: Blood, video link doctor to lawyer’s disappearance

Prosecutors say blood, video and other evidence point to a Florida plastic surgeon killing a lawyer whose body has not yet been found.
Family of US couple kidnapped in Haiti pleads for release

The family of a U.S. couple who has been kidnapped in Haiti is pleading for their release.
NJ takes over Paterson police after crisis worker’s shooting

New Jersey’s attorney general says his office has taken control of the police department in the state’s third-largest city, Paterson.
