
How airlines prepare for big storms
Even before the snowstorm hit the Northeast, airlines were already cancelling flights. It's a strategy that has served airlines well in recent years: ...

How to prepare for snowstorm's power outages
The snowstorm that hit the Northeast knocked down trees and power lines and left hundreds of thousands of homes in the cold and dark. About 650,000 ...

Sandy in back of Easterners' minds as snow falls
For many in the Northeast, the warnings were eerily familiar: Stock up on food and water. Stay off the roads. Be prepared to lose power. The snowstorm ...

Uggs? Ugh. NY Fashion Week battles the elements
Mother Nature is clearly not a fashionista. A blizzard forced Michael Kors to arrive at New York Fashion Week's "Project Runway" show on Friday in — ...

Snowstorm hits NYC, Boston; 1 to 3 feet feared
A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston ...

Hunt for ex-officer goes on amid Calif. snowstorm
All that was left were footprints leading away from Christopher Dorner's burned-out pickup truck, and enormous, snow-covered mountains where he could ...

US airlines to halt Northeast flights
Most airlines were giving up on flying in and out of New York, Boston and other cities in the Northeast Friday as a massive storm threatened to dump ...

Is blizzard getting too much hype? No, experts say
You can call it a snowstorm of historic proportions. You can call it the return of New England's blizzard of 1978. You can call it simply dangerous.
Oil falls below $96 after early rise
Oil prices slipped back below $96 a barrel Friday afternoon, reversing course after rising earlier in the day. Benchmark crude for March delivery fell ...

NYC, New England brace for up to 3 feet of snow
Snow was falling around the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what's predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard, and sending residents ...

Blizzard threatens NYC, New England; 2 feet feared
A blizzard of potentially mammoth proportions threatened to strike the Northeast with a vengeance Friday, with up to 2 feet of snow feared along the ...

Putin angry over Sochi Olympics cost overruns
A year before the 2014 Winter Olympics are to begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be ...

Blizzard could bury New England's bare grounds
A blizzard heading to New England could make travel nearly impossible and dump up to 2 feet of snow on a region that has seen mostly bare ground this ...

Sochi a point of national pride for Putin's Russia
One year before Russia hosts its first Winter Olympics, this Black Sea resort is a vast construction site sprawling for nearly 40 kilometers (25 ...

NY inmates help build ice palace in Adirondacks
It's a far cry from breaking rocks in the hot sun on a chain gang. In New York's Adirondack Mountains, inmates break ice on a frozen lake to make a ...

2 children, 1 adult die in Detroit freeway pileups
Blinding snow squalls, high winds and a slick highway led to a mile-long series of crashes in Detroit that left at least three people dead Thursday, ...

Decimated Ga. plant a symbol of storm's power
For Darleen Evans, it was sheer terror as the manufacturing plant where she worked collapsed around her and her colleagues. She and two other women ...

Powerful storms flip cars, decimate homes; 2 dead
A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, generating tornadoes and dangerous winds that flipped cars on a major Georgia interstate, ...

1 dead as vast storm rakes South, Midwest
A large storm system packing high winds, hail and at least one tornado tore across a wide swath of the South and Midwest on Wednesday, killing one ...

After disasters, county struggles against drought
In the gently rolling hills of Oklahoma ranch country is a place that has seen more than its share of destructive weather — tornadoes, ice storms and ...

Spotty Midwestern snow a mixed bag for businesses
Just a week ago, things looked dire for Sarah and Tim Long, owners of Timbers Resort in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Snow is their winter lifeblood, ...

Chicago gets 1st 1-inch snowfall, breaking record
Chicago didn't get much snow Friday, but it was record-breaking nonetheless. The 1.1 inches that settled on Windy City streets and sidewalks marked ...

Deep freeze to continue into weekend in East
A teeth-chattering cold wave with subzero temperatures is expected to keep its icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend before seasonable ...

Super Bowl or super brrr? Big game coming to NY
Amy Freeze can talk football and forecasts. So with the Super Bowl coming to New York next year, and with local temperatures stuck in the teens, the ...

Midwest bundles up as bitter cold grips region
Homeless people scrambled to find shelter, schools closed down and plumbers wrestled with frozen pipes Tuesday as the Upper Midwest endured a third ...