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OKANOGAN, Wash. – Okanogan County sheriff’s detectives have accused a Tonasket woman of having her husband’s pregnant lover stabbed to death with an ice pick. The sheriff’s office says 33-year-old Lacy K. Hirst-Pavek was arrested Tuesday night and jailed for investigation of murder and manslaughter in the slaying of 25-year-old …

DES MOINES, Iowa – Strong thunderstorms packing possible tornadoes battered parts of the Midwest on Sunday for a second straight day, damaging at least half a dozen buildings and a campground in Iowa and two Oklahoma homes. Tornadoes were reported in eastern Iowa, western Oklahoma and south-central Kansas, but there …

BEMIDJI, Minn. – Federal authorities believe the high school student behind Monday’s massacre in northern Minnesota likely plotted the attack that left 10 dead, including himself. The shooter, named by authorities as 16-year-old Jeff Weise (search), was a student at the school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation (search). Weise …