After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his requests for a stay of execution, and the governor of Missouri rejected his requests for clemency on Monday, White Supremacist and serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was led to the death chamber and administered a lethal injection and died ten minutes later.
Virginia State Police responded to the home of a Virginia State Senator at 7:25 am on Tuesday morning to find the son of Senator Creigh Deeds' Gus Deeds, dead from a gunshot would according to reports.
George Zimmerman, the former Neighborhood Watch member who spent months in the Nation's spotlight after he shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, is back in the news again after deputies responded to a disturbance call in a Apopka, Florida neighborhood.
Hundreds of thousands are without power, thousands are homeless and at least eight people have been killed in the spate of at least 81 reported tornadoes that spread destruction through 12 states Sunday. Six deaths occurred in Illinois with another two deaths reported in Michigan.