( CNN ) -- Consider the biggest stories in recent weeks : Three women in Cleveland end a decade 's captivity . A Texas fertilizer plant explosion kills 15 people . A monster tornado strikes an Oklahoma suburb . A British soldier is savagely slain on a London street . Need an update on these important events ? Welcome to CNN Reset , a new feature revisiting news that 's been unforgettable . Here 's the latest on video and online . Oklahoma twister . Science calls it an EF5 . The people of Moore , Oklahoma , know it as the most powerful category of tornadoes . The twister 's destruction was merciless : it struck the Plaza Towers Elementary School , killing seven children there . In all , 24 people perished , including 10 children . The human response to the catastrophe has been powerful too . Locals call it the `` Oklahoma standard '' -- `` persistence and a great positive attitude by the people to never give in , '' as University of Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops puts it . Cleveland captivity . It was a horror worthy of Stephen King 's imagination : three young women allegedly held captive in a house for roughly 10 years beginning at ages 21 , 16 and 14 . They were allegedly abducted off the street in a Cleveland neighborhood by the homeowner , Ariel Castro , 52 , who 's now facing four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape . Alleged violence and threats made the captive women afraid to seek an escape . But one of the women -- the one who bore a child by Castro -- finally shouted for help after Castro left the house and forgot to lock a big inside door . Neighbors responded . The women and a 6-year-old girl were freed . Now tourists visit the neighborhood . And as the city seeks donations to support the women , it struggles with a dark legacy . Texas explosion . The explosion of a fertilizer plant shook the Earth like an earthquake . In fact , the blast in West , Texas , registered a 2.1 on the Richter scale , and people felt it 50 miles away . The first responders experienced a scene for which no training could ever prepare them : a mushroom-cloud fireball lay waste to 37 blocks , including a nursing home , the local high and middle school , and many houses . Fifteen people -- including 12 first responders -- were killed . Volunteer firefighter Robert Payne was blown out of his boots and knocked senseless . He woke up in intensive care wondering what happened . Now recovering from several injuries , he 's thankful he 's alive . As the town of 2,800 rebuilds , will it want the fertilizer plant back ? The mayor doubts it . Boston Marathon bombings . Among those injured in the Boston Marathon bombings were two brothers . Paul and JP Norden have shared much in life . Now they are together in recovery : Each brother lost a right leg in the attack . As hard as the limb loss was for the brothers , equally difficult was not seeing other each for weeks as they underwent 12 surgeries in all . The siblings finally saw each other about two weeks ago for the first time since the marathon . They want the public to know their uncommon brotherhood is lifting them through an arduous recuperation . London slaying . The British soldier was well-liked by many . He was even a military recruiter and played the drum outside the Royal Palaces on behalf of his regiment , the Fusiliers . But the life of Drummer Lee Rigby , 25 , came to a grisly end on a London street at the hands of a man with a meat cleaver and knife . What has shocked the world is how the alleged attacker -- Michael Adebolajo , 28 , a British national of Nigerian descent -- made a video of the gory scene and spoke to the camera about the killing , saying it was `` an eye for an eye '' and `` because Muslims are dying daily . '' A total of five men have been arrested in the slaying . Now far-right activists are calling upon Muslims to leave the country . Capital calamities . The second term of President Barack Obama was supposed to be about immigration reform , gun control and the economy . Instead , it 's seemingly been one scandal after another . The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the Associated Press . Questions resurfaced about whether the administration downplayed the role of terrorism in the attack against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi , Libya . And the IRS allegedly targeted politically conservative groups . The president says he 's angry about it , too .
Residents put the 'Oklahoma standard ' to work in rebuilding their lives . Tourists visit as the city of Cleveland struggles with the legacy of a captivity house . A Texas firefighter blown out of his boots survives a fertilizer plant explosion . Two brothers share the recovery from right leg amputations in Boston Marathon attacks .