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Mass killing suspect still on the run

Laura L. Davis   Paste BN

With the suspect still at large, a survivor shares details about what led up to a mass killing in Texas that left five dead. And tornadoes ripped through two states, leaving major damage behind.

👋 Hey! Laura Davis here. It's Monday, which means it's time for – you guessed it – Monday's news!

🍌 But first, this is bananas: A student in South Korea plucked an art installation worth over $100,000 off the wall of the museum and ate it. Why? He was hungry!

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Texas family called police 5 times before shooting spree that killed 5

Despite a search involving hundreds of law enforcement personnel from multiple jurisdictions, the suspect in a Texas shooting rampage remains on the loose. Before the shooting began, Wilson Garcia said he asked his neighbor, who was shooting a gun in his yard late at night, to shoot farther away from his home because his 1-month-old son was sleeping. Garcia called police when the man refused. The family made four more calls to police within 10 minutes. Garcia's wife, Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, was the first person shot. Garcia's 9-year-old son also was killed. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers explained the delayed police response in the town of Cleveland, about 45 miles north of Houston, saying he had only three officers covering 700 square miles. Here's the latest on the deadly shooting.

Multiple fatalities, dozens injured in massive pileup on Illinois I-55

Multiple people are dead and dozens injured after a dust storm caused a multi-vehicle pileup Monday morning on Interstate 55 south of Springfield, Illinois. Videos and images showed almost apocalyptic scenes: Vehicles in disarray amid billowing smoke and dust on both sides of the interstate, which was shut down in both directions for nearly 30 miles. Visibility was reduced to zero, officials said, when high winds whipped up a dust cloud, causing 40 to 60 passenger cars and multiple tractor-trailers to crash. At least 30 people were transported to hospitals, and officials said the number of fatalities would be released later. Here's the latest.

Another bank bites the dust

Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase in a bid to head off further banking turmoil. San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to fail in two months, and the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only Washington Mutual, which collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis. First Republic has struggled since the March collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and investors and depositors had grown increasingly worried it might not survive because of its high amount of uninsured deposits and exposure to low interest rate loans. Here's what to know.

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Tornadoes rip through Florida and Virginia, leaving major damage

Residents in two different states are cleaning up after a pair of tornadoes struck along the Atlantic Coast over the weekend as powerful winds and heavy rains hit parts of the South. An EF-3 tornado landed Sunday evening in Virginia Beach, Virginia, damaging more than 100 homes and businesses. And on Saturday, a powerful EF-2 twister with winds of up to 130 mph touched down in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, leaving behind flipped cars and other widespread damage. Keep reading.

Montana Rep. Zephyr sues over removal from House floor

Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after they voted to censure her for comments she made criticizing her colleagues. The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana, along with several attorneys, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Zephyr, a transgender Democrat, in state court Monday against the state of Montana, alleging House leadership's actions are a violation of her first amendment rights. Zephyr was silenced on the floor of the state house for a comment she made directed toward Republican colleagues if they voted for a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors. Here's what we know.

A break from the news

Laura L. Davis is an Audience Editor at Paste BN. Send her an email at laura@usatoday.com or follow along with her adventures – and misadventures – on Twitter. Support quality journalism like this? Subscribe to Paste BN here.

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