Emergency

Storm's high winds, snow, sleet lash Northeast

By DAN SEWELLAssociated Press A powerful winter storm system that pounded the nation's midsection, wrecking holiday travel plans and dumping a record snowfall in Arkansas, began lashing the Northeast on Wednesday with high winds, snow and sleet. The storm, which knocked out power to thousands

Snowstorm heads east after South twisters; 3 dead

By JIM VAN ANGLENAssociated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation's midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South has begun punching its way toward the Northeast, slowing holiday travel. Post-Christmas travelers braced

2 NY firefighters who survived gun ambush thankful

By GEORGE M. WALSHAssociated Press Two firefighters wounded by a gunman who set his upstate New York house ablaze and killed two of their colleagues in an ambush with weapons he wasn't allowed to own were on the mend Wednesday and said they were thankful for the support they've received.

Officials: NY gunman set 'trap' for firefighters

By JOHN KEKISAssociated Press WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) - A man who set his house on fire then lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of flames and bullets had attracted little attention since he got out of prison in the 1990s for killing his grandmother, authorities said. But two months ago,