DALLAS (AP) — The Texas council that manages the majority of the state’s electricity has initiated rotating power outages Monday morning as the state experiences a winter storm dropping snow, ice and temperatures. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas urged residents to reduce electricity. Over a million customers went without power for short periods as…
By DAVID PORTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH , Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man charged with killing three people in Missouri this month should have faced deportation proceedings after he was arrested last year for a separate offense in New Jersey, instead of being released, federal immigration officials said Friday. Twenty-three-year-old Luis Perez, who…
Eureka, MO (KTRS) Over a dozen people are being questioned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a traffic stop in Eureka. Authorities say the Missouri Highway Patrol pulled over a van occupied by 15 people around 7:30 a.m. Thursday on eastbound I-44 near the Six Flags. That’s when the driver and a passenger…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lugging little backpacks, smiling immigrant children were scooped up into their parents’ arms Tuesday as the Trump administration scrambled to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families at the border. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, two boys and a girl who had been in temporary…
By JEFF MARTIN and JAY REEVES, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The South awoke on Wednesday to a two-part Arctic mess. First came a thin blanket of snow and ice, and then came the below-zero wind chills. The snowfall sabotaged morning rush hour even before it began, sending cars crashing into each other on major thoroughfares…
By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Brutal winter weather that’s brought subzero temperatures to parts of the U.S. is threatening to dump snow and ice across parts of the South that rarely see flurries, much less accumulation. The National Weather Service said a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain was expected Wednesday…