NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

Snow fell in Houston and prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border.

Millions of Americans face an artic blast, including the first-ever blizzard warning for parts of the Gulf Coast.

A once-in-a-generation winter storm event is underway in the southern United States, which is forecast to have significant impacts to cities and residents unaccustomed to winter weather

Flight cancellations are mounting as a historic winter storm sweeps across the Gulf Coast. Already, the storm has brought air traffic to a virtual standstill at several airports across parts of Texas and Louisiana.

Historic winter storm shatters records across the South, leaving millions grappling with extreme cold and unprecedented snowfall into the weekend.

A well-predicted and historic winter storm impacted the Deep South this week. I am staring out of my office window at a frozen landscape and 14 degrees F temperature in my part of the metropolitan Atlanta area.

As heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain hit parts of the Deep South, a blast of Arctic air plunged much of the Midwest and the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.

The heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain hitting parts of the Deep South came as a blast of Arctic ... pool-tubing down a Houston hill. One of the country’s quirkiest cities, New Orleans ...

According to NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks, shoring up the trenches for the long term should be a priority for the AFC South champions. In his latest mock, Houston lands Michigan defensive tackle Kenneth Grant to pair with Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. in the front seven.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.

Notable notes, stats that stand out, and emerging trends as college basketball closes out the month of January.