Multiple damaging tornadoes were reported across Mississippi on Saturday as the Deep South was the target of a severe weather outbreak. While the coincidence is unusual, scientist

Tornadoes have ravaged several states since Friday, decimating homes, snapping trees and leaving towns like Tylertown, Mississippi, leveled.

The man last known to be seen with a University of Pittsburgh student before she vanished from a beach in the Dominican Republic gave more details to local prosecutors about the last time he saw her,

The number of fatalities increased after the Kansas Highway Patrol reported eight people died in a highway pileup caused by a dust storm.

A dangerous tornado outbreak which started on Friday evening continued into the first half of the weekend with nearly 2 dozen deaths across the nation's heartland and South.Saturday's round of tornadic storms caused damage in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana and triggered the issuance of a rare Tornado Emergency around the town of Taylorsville.

The most fatalities as of Saturday morning were in Missouri, authorities said, with an estimated 11 people killed.

A sprawling storm system crossing the U.S. on Friday overturned semitrucks on highways and fanned wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma, where officials called for ev