In brief: One killed during Arkansas tornadoes

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The National Weather Service confirmed Monday that two tornadoes struck Arkansas as a powerful storm system crossed the state, killing one person. The system also moved through Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

One tornado struck near Ashdown, about 150 miles southwest of Little Rock. A man was killed and his wife injured when their home was destroyed early Monday, according to meteorologist Joe Goudsward, with the weather service in Little Rock.

Goudsward said that tornado was an EF2 on a scale that rates twisters from EF0 to EF5. A second one, near England, about 30 miles southeast of Little Rock, was rated an EF1, meaning it was less powerful than the other one.

Kim Jong Un makes public appearance

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance in five weeks, the country’s official news agency reported today, ending an absence that fueled global speculation that something was amiss with the country’s most powerful person.

Resuming what had been a regular practice before he stopped showing up in media reports for 40 days, Kim “gave field guidance” at the newly built Wisong Scientists Residential District, according to a dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency released in the early morning hours. The agency didn’t say when the visit happened.

FAA facility online after sabotage

A Chicago-area radar facility that is a key cog in the nation’s air traffic control network was back online Monday after a 17-day outage caused by sabotage, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

No technical problems were reported at the FAA’s Chicago Center in Aurora, Illinois, where a contract worker, Brian Howard, of Naperville, Illinois, who was angry over an impending transfer to Hawaii, set fire to voice and data communications equipment and severed cables Sept. 26, authorities said.