SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Officials are cautioning motorists to again be prepared for hazardous driving conditions with most of Illinois under winter weather advisories. Many of the National Weather Service’s advisories remain in effect until Monday. They warn of light snow and freezing rain. Illinois Department of Transportation crews have been pretreating areas susceptible to…
By STEVE LEBLANC BOSTON (AP) — The blast of arctic air that engulfed portions of the East Coast broke cold temperature records from Maine to West Virginia and stunned sea turtles in Florida — although a warm-up is coming Monday. Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine set records, with Burlington falling to minus 20, beating a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis area is bracing for a possible winter story. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect from 12 p.m.Sunday until 3 a.m. Monday. The National Weather Service is calling for a wintry mix of freezing rain and sleet. This could create hazardous driving conditions. MODOT is asking for motorists to…
HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish national broadcaster SVT says a man has died after he picked up an unidentified object from the ground near a subway station in Stockholm that detonated in his hand. Swedish police could not immediately confirm the death. Stockholm region police spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson says the explosion took place Sunday morning just…
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke who struggled for decades to achieve his own stardom before clicking as the dim-witted sidekick in television’s “Coach,” died Friday in Arkansas, according to his manager. He was 86. John Castonia said Van Dyke died at…