snowstorm News

Deadly Snowstorm Halts Travel Across Great Plains

Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not impossible across the region. Hotels were …

Northeast Power Outages Hit Many Businesses Hard

Businesses big and small have taken a beating from the power outages caused by the record-setting October snowstorm and the losses are only beginning to be tallied, owners and experts said Monday as tens of thousands of Connecticut homes and …

Power Restoration in Snowy East Could Take Days

Residents across the Northeast woke up to cold, dark homes and one of the earliest snow days in memory Monday after a storm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow that snapped trees and power lines and …

New York Man Rescued from Sinkhole in Front Lawn

An 80-year-old man who went to retrieve the morning papers on his lawn sank into an 8-foot hole on New York’s Long Island. Michael Ciron’s screams on Sunday morning soon woke up his daughter, who summoned police and firefighters to …