Here Comes the Bride's Family: Cheers as Mom & Dad Bush Arrive in Crawford for Jenna's Wedding

Tornado Video & On-Scene Photos: Deadly Storm Kills Seven in Arkansas; Spawns 6-Vortice Tornado in Oklahoma; Texas Picks Up After Twisters(Raw Video)

This is an extraordinary photo of a tornado over Oklahoma City, OK during the May 1 outbreak. The photographer,Linda, a gardening, and nature enthusiast, grabbed a huge twister on the right and the simultaneous development of other funnels on the left. (Photo copyright to photographer, one-time usage granted to I Found a Peanut blog.)




This outstanding photo of mammatus in straight-line wind development as the massive storm system moved across Kansas was taken by Frank Thompson of Overland Park. (Photo copyright to photographer, one-time usage granted to I Found a Peanut blog.)

This storm system, which ranged across more than 2,000 miles of the continental United States, is a textbook example of how snowstorms and extreme cold in the West, coupled with a "fetch" of warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, can fire up supercells.. As this storm moves east, Chicago forecasters are keeping a wary eye on this system.

Seven deaths have been reported in Arkansas from this storm system, including a teenager who died when a tree fell on her house while she was sleeping. The National Weather Service has confirmed reports of at least a dozen tornadoes overnight Thursday. More storms are hitting today across the Mississippi Valley as the system roars east.










The Peanut crew lives in Oklahoma's Tornado Alley. We were up most of the night tracking the storms.

More than 300 Children from Renegade Mormon Polygamist Cult Will Be Sent to Foster Homes

Wildfire Video: Cameraman Caught in Texas Wildfire

Texas Schools Evacuated, Closed After Oil Refinery Explosion

Photo courtesy of local resident Claudine Cooper

Over the past few years, Texas has seen a number of oil refinery explosions and accidents. It's a dangerous business.

Alleged JFK "Love Child" Jack Worthington Steps Forward

The mystery man has come forward. After Vanity Fair ditched an article about the existence of an alleged President John F. Kennedy "love child," the New York Post revealed his existence, without a name.

The Vancouver Sun has published an interview with Jack Worthington, who is said to have an uncanny resemblance to the assassinated U.S president. In their journalistic coup, the Sun said:

"Worthington revealed that part of the Vanity Fair article's research "focuses on my mother's paternal family and their history as lifelong political allies of [JFK's vice-president and successor Lyndon Baines Johnson] in south Texas. That research is related to the rise of LBJ and the fall of JFK, which is an extraordinarily sensitive topic to Americans, so caution and analytical rigour are extremely important."

Many have claimed that Johnson was part of a plot that set Kennedy up to be killed in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Earlier this week, the Peanut crew reported that the Parkland Hospital room where JFK died is being stored in Kansas. We also included some videos of the killing shot that day in Dallas.

Global Warming? Snow Shuts Down Jerusalem, China & Parts of U.S.

The Peanut crew was snow-bound yesterday as schools and many activities shut down again in an unusually harsh winter. Wicked winter weather continues to set records around the globe.

From coast to coast, north and south, the United States mainland has been savaged by winter storms, including one that caused a 40-car pileup in Texas. Deaths have been recorded in many states, including Texas and Oklahoma, states which are both struggling to recover from record-setting winter weather in December.














If this year's U.S. severe winter storms sound familiar, they are. A look back at '07:

Oh No! No UFO! Texas-Sized UFO Tale Grounded by Military Flight Report From Ft. Worth Base

Navy Helicopter Crash Kills 3 Navy Personnel, Injures 1 in Texas

Interest Grows in Stephenville, TX UFO Sighting

UFO Sightings Swarm Stephenville, TX; Enroute to Roswell Shopping?

Texas is right next door to New Mexico. Maybe the UFO travelers just wanted to do a little shopping in Roswell, a UFO-friendly place.

The Daily Drive-Through: Hot Tasty News From Geeks (Las Vegas, Baby & Bill Gates) to Freaks ( Cannibal Killer Christopher Lee McCuin)

Illegal Immigration: Affecting Your Wages?

This news report from a small town in Texas shows how illegal immigrants have pushed down wages and raised the cost of living for Americans. Workers in the meat packing industry in the U.S. now earn 35% less than they did in the 1970's.

Experts say that continuing waves of illegal workers, often with forged documents, have created a market where wages for American workers are severely at risk. In this investigation, Swift was hauled into court for allegedly deliberately hiring illegals over American workers in order to save money.

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Rub-A-Dub: Texas Man, 87 Rattlesnakes Share Tub

Yea, I know. Everyone's got a hobby. But Jackie Bibby, the "Texas Snake Man" spends his free time with rattlesnakes.

Bibby hung out in a bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes yesterday. He was fully dressed, the snakes came as they were.

Bibby's latest record-grabbing stunt took place in a clear plastic tub created for him by the Guiness world record folks. Yesterday's lounge-in (eat your heart out, Yoko), lasted for 45 minutes and broke his prior chillin' with rattlers record by 12 snakes.

Bibby didn't boogie his booty. Nope, he says that his success with fully-fanged, venomed rattlers is based on calm and slow, if any, movements. And, apparently, just plain liking rattlers.

He also holds the word record for suspending rattlesnakes from his mouth their tails. Ten of them--and Guiness says so.

Not only that, but Bibby's cuddled head first into a sleeping bag with 20 rattlesnakes. When he went in feet first, he shared the bag with 112 snakes.

Although he's got some great authentic pickup lines (hey, baby, wanna see my snake; world-record certified!), getting someone to curl up with him might put him behind the curve.

Bibby's website offers a fascinating look at his hobby and his action-packed life. A chemical dependency counselor, he's appeared in movies, and on TV. His fun stuff also includes riding rodeo bulls, hang gliding, and sky diving.

The Dublin, Texas man has been doing his snake thang for more than 30 years. He's had to be hospitalized eight times for snakebite.

I'd called that a charmed record. Why does he do it? I'll let you know after I talk with the one and only Texas Snake Man.



Photos: publicity stills, courtesy of the Texas Snake Man.

Chupacabra Unmasked As Coyote

You may remember when a Texas woman claimed to have found the head of an actual blood-sucking chupacabra, and promptly set up a business selling tee shirts marking her find.

The mystery is solved, thanks to modern science.

Turns out that her find is: just another coyote. Texas State University biologists, working from DNA samples provided by KENS-TV, celebrated Halloween by unmasking the dead critter as pure "Texas Coyote."

No one is quite sure why the body was hairless, but one thing is sure: Coyote, that Native American trickster, once again has the last laugh.