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Gas Buddy predicted in late November that the national average is expected to dip below per gallon in time for Thanksgiving. The price of gas tends to drop in the fall and early winter, as motorists use cheaper winter blends and drive less.
A tree blew over onto a house in Arkansas, killing an 18-year-old woman and trapping her one-year-old child inside, authorities said.
Jason Van Dyke greeted by cameras, scorn at criminal court
A second protest is planned to be held outside the courthouse where Van Dyke is scheduled to make his appearance Friday. He wore a gray suit for the hearing before Cook County Circuit Judge James Brown, who set arraignment for December 29.
Three people died in Benton County, authorities said.
Suspect in Vegas crash ‘distraught,’ attorneys say
The felony cost of kid abuse and neglect accuses Holloway of endangering her daughter, who was driving in the backseat. Holloway had been in Las Vegas for about one week before the crash and was living in a auto , officials said Monday.
Her death was one of at least six weather-related fatalities in the US on Wednesday. In Holly Springs, a 7-year-old boy was killed when the vehicle he was riding in was picked up by winds and dropped. No further details about the circumstances were immediately available.
One person has died in Arkansas and several others were injured in Tennessee from a multi-day severe weather event that expected to threaten much of the South. The toddler was taken to a hospital, and no condition was immediately available.
Early reports are also coming in stating that at least two people were killed in Tennessee after a suspected tornado tore through Perry County.
“Right now, the medical part of it seems to be slowing down”, said Missy Campbell, an emergency dispatcher in Benton County, Miss., where at least two people were killed and at least two more were missing.
The threat of severe weather just before Christmas is unusual, but not unprecedented, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at the national Storm Prediction Center.
14 of those storms struck in MS alone.
About an hour ago, Mosier says three other tornadoes touched down at the same time in northern Mississippi.
Witnesses in Highland, Arkansas say storms there rolled in without warning. It has yet to be determined if the damage was caused by a tornado or straight-line winds.
This photo provided by the Pope County Sheriff’s Department shows a storm damaged home outside of Atkins, Ark., on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.
She said the people who lived in the house that was destroyed weren’t home. “They were brick houses on a slab”. More detailed info to come later.
The damage was very isolated, she said: Diners were still eating at a downtown steakhouse in the tiny town just a few miles from the devastation.
There have been reports of at least 20 tornadoes of varying severity. Bill Luckett, the Mayor of Clarksdale said that the only casualty in his area was killing of a dog due to storm debris.
Mississippi Highway Patrol Captain Johnny Poulos warns drivers to expect more stormy days this week.
He tells our Newscast unit that “once daylight comes, the National Weather Service will determine whether tornadoes or straight-line winds are to blame”.
Severe storms that ripped through MS and Alabama, however, had little impact on air travel since no major airports are in those states. A storm system killed several people as it swept across the South, and officials are searching for mis…
“If it is continuous it would be the longest track DEC tornado on record here in the Mid-South”, the Memphis office of the weather service said.
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The national Storm Prediction Center in Okahome issued a “particularly unsafe situation” warning for the first time since June 2014 on Wednesday, and across the region many homes and businesses were destroyed and thousands were left without power.
