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Hello, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN Center in Atlanta on this Wednesday. Here are some of the headlines that are NOW IN THE NEWS.

The nation's heartland was hammered with heavy rain and major flooding. From Texas to Ohio, torrential rains turned streets into rivers. In northern Texas, winds that reached 100 miles an hour disrupted hundreds of flights at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. The storms are blamed for at least two deaths in Missouri.

Check this out: it went into a sinkhole in Oklahoma. That's a truck. The driver said that when he got to the top of the hill, it looked like a road. But when he got there, the road weakened by the heavy rain just collapsed¹ under him. Rescuers pulled the driver out. He does have some injuries, but he is just gonna be fine.

New British newspapers are printing rare front page apologies to the parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann for suggesting they caused her death. The move comes after the family filed a lawsuit² against several papers: the Daily Express and the Daily Star , say there is no evidence to suggest the parents were involved in their daughter's disappearance³. Both papers have also made substantial donations to the Medline Fund. The four-year-old disappeared during a family vacation last May in Portugal.

There's a happy ending for a man once engaged to a reallife runaway⁴ bride. John Mason was thrust into the national spotlight⁵ back in 05, when his fiancée Jennifer Wilbanks disappeared days before the wedding. Well, she lied to police with a call and said she had been kidnapped. People Magazine reports that Mason married another woman on Saturday at his parents' home in Georgia.

You can find out much more on these stories with continuing coverage⁶ of the latest news as well. Just log on to our website, tune⁷ in to CNN television or if you happen to be on the go, don't forget about cnn.com updates for your cell phone.