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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

Christmas storms all over US blamed for 2 deaths

By JANET McCONNAUGHEYAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Christmas Day twister outbreak left damage across the Deep South while holiday travelers in the nation's much colder midsection battled sometimes treacherous driving conditions from freezing rain and blizzard conditions. Conditions were

For family that lost home to Sandy, 'a miracle'

By HELEN O'NEILLAP Special Correspondent LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) - The text from Sister Diane at St. Ignatius Martyr church was as odd as it was urgent: "A man is going to call. You must answer the phone." Kerry Ann Troy had just finished her daily "cry time" - that half-hour between dropping the