5 Days After Charging Boyfriend with Her Murder, Police Find Body of Missing Calif. Woman

Missy Hernandez.Photo: Fresno County Sheriff’s Office Five days after charging Missy Hernandez’s boyfriend with her murder, and 40 days after the 30-year-old woman went missing, authorities recovered her body in the waters of the California Aqueduct, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday. Hernandez, also known as Missy Perez and the mother of an 11-year-old daughter, had not been seen since the night of Dec. 7, when she left an art show in downtown Fresno with the alleged killer, whom police identified as her boyfriend, Ramon Jimenez.

5 Dead After Early Morning Tornado Hits Missouri Where Search-and-Rescue Efforts Are Still Underway

Five people were killed after a “significant tornado” moved through rural Bollinger County in Missouri early Wednesday morning, Sheriff Casey A. Grahamconfirmed in a Facebook statement. “It’s with great regret that I can confirm five fatalities; names will be withheld until we are sure all family members have been notified,” the sheriff wrote. The Grassy and Glenallen areas, approximately 120 miles south of St. Louis, were the sites of the destruction, he said.

5 Dead After Hot Air Balloon Crashes into Power Lines in New Mexico

Photo: 7KOATFive people are dead after a hot air balloon crashed into a power line Saturday morning in Albuquerque, New Mexico.The balloon’s basketcaught fire and crashedinto the median of a busy street near Central Ave. and Unser Blvd. at around 7:00 a.m. local time with five people onboard, according to KOAT.Two men and two womenwere pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, with the pilot being one of the male victims.

5 Dead After Small Aircraft Crashes in North Myrtle Beach

Five people have died after a light aircraft crashed in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Sunday. The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed it is investigating the crash, which involved a Piper PA-32R-300 aircraft, onTwitteron Sunday evening. “The Horry County Coroner’s Office is still in the process of identifying the victims. They will be releasing the information once everyone is identified and next of kin are notified,” North Myrtle Beach Police Public Information Officer Pat Wilkinson told CNN.

5 Dead and 10 Injured After 2 Floatplanes Carrying Cruise Ship Passengers Collide in Alaska

Photo: Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP At least five people have tragically died after two floatplanes crashed off the coast of southeastern Alaska on Monday afternoon. The incident took place just after 1 p.m. in the George Inlet area near Ketchikan and involved a small floatplane, carrying 10 guests and a pilot from the cruise ship Royal Princess, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Alivia Owyoung tells PEOPLE. The flight was returning from a Misty Fjords tour.