A major winter storm has disrupted daily life across the Southern U.S., closing schools for 1.5 million students in Texas, Arkansas, and Virginia. With heavy snow, freezing rain, and temperatures plummeting,

Schools and buildings from Texas to Georgia were shut down Thursday or prepared to close ahead of freezing rain and snow forecast for much of the Southern U.S. as another burst of

An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee braced Wednesday for the possible arrival of freezing rain and snow even as some other parts of the U.S. hit by the plunging polar vortex this week began to shake off its icy effects.

Arkansas' capital, Little Rock, closed schools on Thursday ... were canceled Wednesday for a third-straight day and Virginia's capital, Richmond, was still under a weather-related water-boil ...

A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into Southern U.S. states Friday, making for dicey