Freezing rain and snow stranding travelers across Texas
Freezing rain and snow iced highways from Texas to the Ohio Valley on Wednesday causing widespread travel tie ups and airline flight cancellations. Texas highways north of Victoria were slick with deaths reportedly linked to the storm. Arkansas and Oklahoma saw power outages and closures as schools and offices shut down.
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Dallas
Texas
Ohio Valley
Victoria
del Rio
Alan Moller
National Weather Service
Fort Worth
Janell Jones
Mesquite
Kansas
Kentucky
Arkansas
Bill Clay
Springfield
Snow disrupts flights across the Midwest and South
Ten inches of snow forecast for St. Louis slows Trans World Airlines with over 100 cancellations of 660 arrivals and departures at Lambert. Flights also halted at Dallas Fort Worth and Austin airports amid icy weather. Cars and trucks stranded on highways and power outages hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England, with fatalities from falling trees in Pennsylvania.
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St. Louis
Trans World Airlines
Lambert
TWA
Chris Kelly
American
Dallas- Fort Worth International
Sonya Whiteman
Austin-Bergstrom
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Northwest Airlines
Memphis International
Little Rock National Airport
Philip Launius
Dallas-Fort Worth
Kathleen Mitchell
LeTourneau
Longview
University of Texas
St. Edward's University
Austin
University of Oklahoma
West Memphis
Ark
Donnie Belew
Midwest
Detroit Metropolitan
Matt Friedman
Chicago
Milwaukee
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New Jersey
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Boston
Newark
Marine recruiter kills two children before deputy shoots him
In Cleveland Tennessee a 39 year old Marine recruiter Tracy Thacker stabbed his 5 year old son Carson and 9 year old daughter Maylyn to death after taking them from school. He was later shot by a Bradley County deputy as the suspect threatened officers and a fire he had started sparked the blaze. Autopsy shows multiple stab wounds and authorities say the note about paying back mom preceded the killings.
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Cleveland, Tenn
Tracy Thacker
Holli
Bradley County
Chip Bryant
Thacker
Bryant
Holli Thacker
Dean Johnson
Carson
Maylyn
Ron Toolsie
Bob Taylor
USS Cole Returns To Mississippi Shipyard For Repairs
The USS Cole, bearing a 40 by 40 foot gash from a Yemen bombing that killed 17 sailors, returns to Pascagoula's Ingalls Shipbuilding for dry dock repairs. The $150 million to $170 million, year long work follows the Oct. 12 attack in Aden.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Yemen
Mississippi
Navy
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Litton Industries Inc
Aden
Ingalls
B.C. Lee
Lee
FBI
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Debra Holcomb
New Hope
Dallas/Fort Worth
Tucson
Ariz
American Airlines
Alecia Graves
Holcomb
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Diwairport
Fleming
Mutty Ols Water Conditioning CO
TieRe
E. Fulton Plaza
Garden City
USS Cole
Ohne
N. Main
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