Here are five things to know about the deep freeze that's swept across most of the U.S. over the past few days:
1. COLD OUTSIDE? YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Nearly 187 million people, more than half... READ MORE »
ATLANTA (AP) -- A man slapped a crying toddler during a flight will serve eight months in federal prison.
Joe Rickey Hundley was accused of using a racial slur to refer to the 19-month-old... READ MORE »
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A holiday traveler killed in an apparent road-rage shooting in Pennsylvania had reported some sort of road dispute with the pickup chasing him, state police said Sunday... READ MORE »
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine, instead.
"What... READ MORE »
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- In at least four states that have nurtured the nation's energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and... READ MORE »
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Jeremiah Thomas watched the final minutes of Sunday's Eagles-Cowboys game with two thoughts only a Herr's sales manager could have:
Go Birds! and I gotta bring more... READ MORE »
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A Virginia man convicted in the murder of a rival in the gay porn business in northeastern Pennsylvania is seeking a new trial, arguing that his attorneys weren't... READ MORE »
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- The driver of a car has died after witnesses tell police it spun into the path of a school bus in western Pennsylvania.
New Kensington police Chief Thomas... READ MORE »
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is experimenting with beet juice as a way to treat icy roads in especially cold weather.
PennDOT officials tell KDKA-TV... READ MORE »
TYRONE, Pa. (AP) -- State police say a central Pennsylvania man claimed his mother was badly beaten by a burglar, but that her texts and phone calls to relatives -- and blood found on her... READ MORE »
