Three people have been arrested in connection with a fire that collapsed an elevated portion of a major road in Atlanta and shut down the heavily travelled route through the heart of the city.

Reese Witherspoon has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge resulting from a heated confrontation with a state trooper in Atlanta, her lawyer says.

The crash site of a missing US Navy jet with four aviators aboard has been found, but none of the passenger’s survived the crash, US Air Force Special Operations Command spokesman Matt Durhan said today.