‘Exorcism’ At Home Depot + Unborn Baby Dies In EF3 Tornado

ACROSS AMERICA — Exorcisms have become more frequent in recent years. But they are still mostly held at religious institutions or inside people’s home.

The age-old practice in Christian and Jewish faiths isn’t something you would expect to see at a home improvement store, but that’s exactly where one occurred earlier this week, police in a Pennsylvania city casually wrote while reporting the day’s police blotter. Read the story on Across Pennsylvania Patch

Mom Loses Unborn Baby In Tornado

Katie Wilson was seven months pregnant when she was injured by an EF3 tornado that hit the Chicago suburbs earlier this week. She has a “long road ahead of her,” her brother told Patch. But even more heartbreaking, she lost the unborn baby. Read the story on Woodridge, IL, Patch

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