Three storm chasers were killed in western Texas when their vehicles collided on a rural road. The storm system they were covering is moving east and threatening severe weather for over 20 million residents of the south-central US.

"Storm Wranglers" Kelley Williamson and Randy Yarnall of Cassville, Missouri, were chasing a tornado on Tuesday afternoon when their Chevrolet Suburban ran a stop sign and crashed into a Jeep driven by fellow storm chaser Corbin Jaeger of Peoria, Arizona. The crash happened near the town of Spur, some 55 miles (90km) southeast of Lubbock, Texas.

Shocked residents in the northern Israeli town of Tiberias alerted authorities on Wednesday to a man walking down the street at midnight, covered in blood and holding what appeared to be a human head.

Law enforcement quickly arrested the man on suspicion of murdering his wife, decapitating her and attempting to burn the body, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Firefighters responding to an emergency call at the couple's apartment extinguished a fire and identified the headless corpse of a female victim in her 30s.

"A young ultra-Orthodox man was walking around the street with his wife's head in his hands, covered in blood. No one understood what was going on and why he had so much blood on him. Only later did they realize he was holding the woman's head," said a witness to the arrest, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv.

It was also reported that the alleged killer had claimed that he was the Messiah, and had visited a psychiatrist who subsequently released him, asserting that the man was not a threat to himself or others.

A hedge-fund executive whose firm lost millions of dollars in the Bernie Madoff investment scheme jumped to his death, falling 20 stories from a luxury Manhattan hotel. The apparent suicide is the latest connected to the Madoff scandal.

Charles Murphy's hedge fund, Fairfield Greenwich Group, invested more than $7 billion in Madoff's wealth management firm - only to take a hard hit when the operation was revealed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in US history.

Witnesses said a man in a dark business suit, later identified as Murphy, jumped from the 24th floor of the Sofitel New York Hotel in Midtown Manhattan just before 5:00pm on Monday, according to the New York Post. He landed on a fourth-floor terrace, according to reports, with the impact of the landing cracking concrete tiles.

In a testament to the sheer lack of oversight and accountability of police officers, two of the most apparently incompetent Florida cops were allowed to patrol a school with nearly two thousand children. The cops would frequently be seen 'playing around' with their tasers. However, all that would come to a halt when Master Deputy Raymond Mattiucci accidentally shot a Leesburg High School employee with a taser, knocking him unconscious and leaving him with a broken wrist.

After Mattiucci's dangerous and irresponsible mistake, he and Deputy Darrell Blanton then conspired to cover it all up — leaving the victim, Jerome Scott, and a witness, Pamela Nash, fearing for their safety.

"These deputies failed to immediately report a serious incident to their supervisor and then compounded the issue by being less than truthful," Lake Sheriff Peyton Grinnell wrote in an email. "As law enforcement officers, we are held to the highest of standards and that type of conduct should not and will not be tolerated."

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Former Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Houston) has been indicted on numerous charges related to receiving donations under false pretenses. His aide is also accused of using a non-profit entity to secure donations for Stockman's campaign.

Stockman, 60, was formally indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on counts related to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from charitable foundations on Tuesday. The two-term representative was arrested earlier this month while attempting to board a flight to the United Arab Emirates.

Stockman and his former director of special projects in his congressional office, Jason Posey, were charged in a 28-count indictment in federal court after Thomas Dodd, a former campaign worker and congressional special assistant, implicated the two as part of a plea deal for charges he faced.

The indictment claims that "shortly after Stockman took office in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2013, he and Dodd allegedly used the name of a nonprofit entity to solicit and receive a $350,000 charitable donation."

That wasn't the only time Stockman's aides allegedly used unscrupulous methods to gain funds. It is believed that $1.25 million was contributed to Stockman's campaign under false pretenses, the Houston Chronicle reported.

It's alleged that Dodd and Stockman met with Stanford Z. Rothschild Jr., a representative of the Rothschild Charitable Foundation and the Rothschild Art Foundation Inc. Rothschild was in his mid-80s when he met with Stockman and Dodd and was allegedly lead to believe he was donating to a charitable foundation for voter education, according to the Houston Chronicle.

With premiums increasing for those with coverage through the ACA marketplace, a lot of people are criticizing Obamacare. But many doctors and healthcare professionals are saying that isn't really the problem.

Cathleen London is a primary care physician in Milbridge, a rural town in Maine. She claims the problem isn't Obamacare itself, but rather, the entire health insurance system and insurance companies are to blame.

Massachusetts prosecutors will move in mid-April to vacate nearly all of the roughly 24,000 drug convictions tainted by a single corrupt forensic lab chemist, The Boston Globe reported Saturday, marking the denouement of one of the largest drug lab scandals in U.S. history.

A Massachusetts prosecutor told the state's Supreme Judicial Court last week that D.A.'s would seek to keep fewer than 1,000 of the 24,000 convictions tainted by drug lab chemist Annie Dookahn, who pled guilty in 2012 to falsifying test results in favor of law enforcement and tampering with evidence over a nine-year period starting in 2003.

"Without putting numbers on it, it's in the ballpark that the court was looking for," Robert J. Bender, a Middlesex County assistant district attorney, said during a March 16 hearing, according to Globe. "Hundreds of cases, not thousands of cases."

Since Dookhan was convicted, the Massachusetts criminal justice system has been reeling under the number of so-called "Dookhan defendants" and how to ensure justice for all of them. Dookhan managed to taint an estimated one in six drug cases in Massachusetts between 2003 and 2012.

A doctor is facing trial in Switzerland after severing a four-year-old's penis during a circumcision operation and 'wasting time' before sending him to hospital. The medico is accused of inflicting serious bodily harm through negligence.

The tragic incident occurred on July 2014, when the boy's parents took him to the doctor's office in Geneva.

The parents had confidence in the physician, who had at the time performed 700 circumcisions, according to Le Matin newspaper.

In this busy border city, Customs and Border Protection agents are more than just faceless federal officers: They back up local sheriff's deputies on dangerous calls, go on joint missions with police and even take part in local parades.

"I know there's a lot of stigma out there against them, but here locally we're very fond of them," Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina said of Border Patrol agents. "They will tell you they can walk anywhere in their uniform and they won't be frowned upon."

That cozy relationship between local law enforcement and the Border Patrol in places such as Laredo may soon get even cozier under new Homeland Security guidelines. The rules, released Feb. 20, call for the hiring of 15,500 more immigration agents, including 5,500 Border Patrol personnel, and a series of other sweeping measures aimed at bolstering immigration enforcement, a cornerstone of President Trump's campaign last year.

Go ahead, admit it. Like a lot of people, you have a favorite number.

Maybe you're not as extreme as Sheldon Cooper, the arch-nerd character on television's Big Bang Theory, who loves the number 73: "73 is the 21st prime number, its mirror 37 is the 12th and its mirror 21 is the product of multiplying, hang on to your hats, 7 and 3!"

Maybe your favorite number is your birthday, or the jersey you wore in high school. Or maybe it is your significant other's birthday. (That would be smart, because then you would never forget it.)

But what is the world's favorite number?

Alex Bellos, a mathematics blogger for The Guardian, started collecting favorite numbers a few years ago. One of the most frequent questions he got from readers was, "What's your favorite number?" (Or "favourite," since this was in England.) He didn't actually have one, but then he started asking readers the same question. Quite to his surprise, he found that a lot of people were passionate about numbers... or at least one number in particular.

"Numbers are like gold coins—you might see a lot of them, but they're all wonderful."

Bellos set up the website and asked people to cast votes for their favorite numbers and explain why they liked them. More than 44,000 people did. Along the way, Bellos noticed lots of patterns. "Definitely, non-mathematical reasons were more frequent than mathematical ones," he says. "Dates and birthdays are the most common." Odd numbers do better, in general, than even ones. In China, 8 is popular because it sounds like "prosperity," and 4 is unpopular because it sounds like "death." English has sound-alikes, too: one voter said his favorite was 11, because "it sounds like lovin'."

Round numbers, ending in 0 or 5, are quite unpopular. "My theory, which is not scientifically proven, is that we use round numbers to mean approximate things," says Bellos. "When we say 100, we don't usually mean exactly 100, we mean around 100. So 100 seems incredibly vague. Why would you have something as your favorite that is so vague?" It seems that we like our numbers to be somewhat unique, which may be why prime numbers are popular. They aren't divisible by any smaller numbers (aside from 1).