Thursday April 21, Prince Rogers Nelson was found unresponsive in his Paisley Park home/studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Paramedics and authorities were unable to revive him. He was pronounced dead at 10:07 at the age of 57. His cause of death is still unknown.

Friday April 22, eight members of the Rhoden family were shot and killed “execution” style in their rural Ohio homes. The eight members of Rhoden family, including one of the mothers who investigators say was killed as her four year old lay beside her, were found dead Friday at four crime scenes, authorities said. The newborn, along with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, were the only ones to survive.

Hannah Gilley, 20; Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40; Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16; Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20; Dana Rhoden, 37; Gary Rhoden, 38; Hanna Rhoden, 19; and Kenneth Rhoden, 44 were the eight members of the Rhoden family that were killed at four different locations.

The police believed that there were only seven bodies located across three houses, two being within walking distance of each other, but they were soon told that there had been another body located about eight miles away from the three previous crime scenes. There have been no arrests made and police are still searching for the murderer(s).

Saturday April 23, three federal agents (two U.S. Marshals and one FBI agent) were shot in, what should have been, a normal arrest. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service’s Fugitive Task Force went to a motel in Topeka Kansas on Saturday night to look for Orlando J. Collins, the FBI’s Kansas City office said. Collins, 28, was wanted on two robbery-related charges.

As the shooter and the police exchanged gunfire, a fire was ignited within the room, causing the room and the whole establishment to catch fire. The motel stood a blaze for more than three hours with flames rocketing high into the sky. “Authorities later found an unidentified body in the room Collins was believed to be in,” the FBI said.

According to CNN, Collins was on the most wanted list for the FBI. He was considered heavily armed and very dangerous.

Sunday April 24, a student at a high school open fired and shoot two of his classmates. The shooter was shot and killed at Antigo High School located in Antigo, Wisconsin  while fellow students were attending prom. The gunman was identified as 18 year old, Jakob Wagner. One male and one female student were injured in the shooting and they were both taken to the hospital and were being treated for non life threatening injuries.

Saturday May 7, several tornadoes tore across eastern colorado causing severe damage to house, buildings and cars. The national Weather service said that at least four tornadoes hit in Yuma County, sum 100 miles east of Denver, near Colorado’s border with Nebraska.

Additionally, along with many severe storms, residents of Colorado were hit with large, ping pong ball sized hail pieces that caused over two dozen reports of damage. Many of the storms also brought anywhere from a half inch to two inches of rain causing minor flooding in the streets.

Tuesday May 17, A federal investigation into the Amtrak 188 derailment that killed eight people and injured more than 200 in Philadelphia last year has concluded and brought new information to light into the cause of the crash. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have now concluded that the train’s engineer, Brandon Bostian, was distracted prior to the crash by radio communication with other trains and dispatchers about other trains being hit by flying projectiles.

According to CNN, NTSB investigators say they found no evidence the Amtrak engineer was using alcohol, drugs or a cell phone. The ride from the train station in Philadelphia to the site of the derailment was 11 minutes. Investigators say seven to nine of those minutes the engineer was listening to and participating in the radio conversations regarding other trains being hit with a projectile.

NTSB investigators said there is good circumstantial evidence to make the case that the radio chatter is what distracted Bostian when he approached a 50 mph curve at 106 mph.

Thursday May 19, EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo disappeared off the radar over the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board early Thursday morning. The plane reached Cairo airspace then took a 37,000 foot drop into the water. Investigators are still unsure whether the plane went down due to mechanical issues or if it was an act of terrorism, but officials aren’t ruling anything out.

Aviation experts are expecting to see debris within the next 12 to 18 hours hoping they will find proof of a plane crash. Greek officials have said that the Egyptian Military may have spotted debris roughly 210 nautical miles southwest of Crete, but they cannot be sure that they are parts off of the missing plane.

Search and rescue operations are in effect.