A brave 14-year-old saved her family and horse after a hit-and-run crash, but police are still searching for the driver who fled.

From New Orleans to the northshore to Baton Rouge to Lafayette, snow is looking more and more likely as a winter storm moves through the area. "The ceiling for this event could be something astonishing.

Florida late on Wednesday closed a more than 200-mile stretch of Interstate 10 from the Alabama state line to Exit 192, the U.S. 90 junction, in Gadsden County “due to remaining snow, ice, and water on the roadway combined with incoming hard freeze temperatures overnight resulting in icy and dangerous conditions on bridges and roadways.

The bone-chilling weather will continue through Thursday morning. It's likely temperatures will remain at or below freezing all day Tuesday as snow invades, with Wednesday lows expected to dip into the teens to mid-20s.

Properly designed and built ICF storm shelters offer the kind of protection necessary to withstand these extreme conditions”

The National Weather Service placed large parts of South Mississippi under a Winter Storm Watch early Saturday morning, including Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Pearl River counties.

Low-level airplane flights are planned over a broad region in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Illinois to image geology and aquifers using airborne geophysical technology.

Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit assisted the Criminal Patrol Division in stopping a gold GMC Yukon on U.S. Highway 11 after observing multiple traffic violations on Dr. T.J. Smith Sr. Expressway near Slidell.

There is a little skepticism regarding the measuring tactics of the day, and since the storm was in 1895, and most people who were measuring the snowfall officially are probably deceased, the official total for that storm will continue to stand at 10 inches as well.

With New Orleans area roads packed with snow and ice after Tuesday's winter storm, many south Louisiana grocery stores remained closed Wednesday. A few, however, opened their doors for customers.

Rev. Francis James Davidson, a Baptist preacher and journalist who was born into slavery in Alexandria, Louisiana, unabashedly wrote what he perceived to be the gospel truth.

After 100 years, the Bohn family is out of the car dealership business. Bohn Brothers Automotive Group sold its last dealership, Toyota of Slidell in Slidell, La., to Tennessee-based Carlock Automotive this week,