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GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — Search and rescue operations are continuing through the night after police say a tornado hit the small Illinois town of Cameron. Police say the twister caused extensive damage Thursday evening, but no significant injuries. Now, no one except emergency personnel is being allowed in the town of about 600 people. The tornado touched down around 7:30 p.m. as a line of storms swept through an area stretching from Galesburg in western Illinois to the western suburbs of Chicago.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man is accused of opening fire at two military sites and killing four people before he was shot dead by police. Federal authorities are investigating whether the shootings were an act of terrorism. They say 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez first drove by a military recruiting center in Chattanooga and sprayed dozens of bullets. Then he drove to a Navy-Marine training center. That's where the four Marines were killed and a sailor was seriously wounded.
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Residents in the Ukrainian village of Hrabove (HRAH'-boh-veh) are remembering the 298 people killed when a Malaysian airliner was shot down a year ago today. The residents have begun a procession to the crash site. In Canberra (KAN'-behr-uh), Australia, a plaque will be unveiled that'll be set in soil from the place where the plane went down. Thirty-eight of the victims were Australian citizens. The tragedy happened as Russia-backed rebels battled Ukrainian troops.
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit woman who killed two of her four children and stored the bodies in a home freezer returns to court today to be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Thirty-six-year-old Mitchelle Blair has expressed no remorse for killing her 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son. An eviction crew discovered the bodies in the freezer in March. Blair pleaded guilty three weeks ago to first-degree murder. Her no-parole sentence is mandatory.
BOSTON (AP) — Just call it the robot hitchhiker. A robot created by two researchers in Canada is beginning its hitchhiking journey across the United States today. HitchBOT already has caught rides across Canada and Europe, and now it'll be relying on the kindness of strangers in the U.S. It begins its journey in Salem, Massachusetts, with a goal of reaching San Francisco. Along the way, researchers hope it'll stop in New York's Times Square, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon.
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