A major winter storm slammed the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, blanketing parts of a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather with record-breaking snowfall.

Arctic air grips the central and eastern U.S., bringing record-breaking cold, dangerous wind chills, and historic snowfall. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

A powerful and rare winter storm swept across the South on Tuesday, bringing the first-ever Blizzard Warning to the Gulf Coast and blasting communities from Texas to Florida to the

A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.

Here’s where snow fell in Florida, how much snow the Sunshine State got this week and what the coldest day in Florida history was.

The dangerous winter storm has resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people across the U.S. and knocked out power for more than 120,000 customers in four states

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas

A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas. Warning

The Zavala County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday that five people died in an overnight crash Tuesday. The accident happened on the Nueces River Bridge in southwest Texas. In a Facebook post the Sheriff’s Office shared pictures from the scene of that crash and another wreck between a semitrailer and a minivan on Wednesday morning.