KILLER STORM: Sunday’s tornado that killed seven people and leveled half of Parkersburg, Iowa, was rated EF5 — tops on the scale — with winds of up to 205 m.p.h., the National Weather Service said Tuesday.
VIRGINIA EXECUTION: Kevin Green, 31, whose lawyers claimed he was mentally disabled, was executed Tuesday night for killing Virginia convenience store owner Patricia Vaughan in a robbery in 1998. It was the first execution in Virginia in nearly two years.
FREQUENT FLIER: Semaj Booker, the 10-year-old boy who last year talked his way onto airline flights to Texas, tried another getaway Tuesday but was stopped at a boarding gate in Seatac, Wash., authorities said.
PEACE CENTER: Jerzy Nowak, a Virginia Tech professor who lost his wife in the mass shooting in April 2007, will head a new peace center in the classroom wing where she died, the university announced Tuesday.
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