Tornadoes swept through portions of the Midwestern United States, killing at least three people in Missouri and blowing roofs off homes in Illinois and Arkansas.

A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a café and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said.

Police today charged a woman accused of strangling an eight-months’-pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in a macabre attack that shocked America.