At a Glance An EF3 tornado tore through Jefferson City, Missouri, just before midnight Wednesday night.Hospitals treated 19 people with minor to moderate injuries.At least eight people are dead in the latest outbreak of severe weather.Storm damage has been reported in Illinois and Indiana, too. The National Weather Service says that the tornado that ripped through Jefferson, Missouri, late Wednesday night was at least a powerful EF3 twister with maximum wind speeds of 160 mph. The tornado tore a 19-mile...

At a Glance An 8.0 magnitude earthquake hit north-central Peru. There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage. A 8.0 magnitude earthquake shook the Amazon jungle in north-central Peru Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At least one person was killed. The quake, at a moderate depth of 70 miles, struck at 2:41 a.m. in a nature preserve about 60 miles east of Yurimaguas. Ricardo Seijas, chief of the National Emergency Operations Center, said one person...

At a Glance A WWII-era submarine is floating in a flooded stretch of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma.The submarine has been landlocked since 1973.The flooded river has reached a level not seen since 1943, around the time the submarine first went to war in the Pacific Ocean. The year is 1943, and because it's December in Honolulu, the sun is out, but the thermometer will only just creep above 79 degrees. The setting would be idyllic if not for the...