Jim Suhr

Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early Tuesday marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, although there was no repeat of the violence that scarred weekend demonstrations.

Bacon lovers can relax. They'll find all they want on supermarket shelves in the coming months, though their pocketbooks may take a hit.

A string of violent storms demolished small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people, and the death toll rose as daylight broke on Saturday's search for survivors.

Twisters roared through the heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in Illinois and Kansas and killing at least nine people. Winds ripped through the country music resort city of Branson, Mo., damaging famous theaters.