Dozens of people were injured in car crashes in Missouri and Kansas during the massive snowstorm. One Jackson County public works employee, Everett Carter, was killed during snow removal operations in Blue Summit.
As federal courts litigate the Kansas Highway Patrol's controversial two-step technique, a state appeals court upheld it in an asset forfeiture case.
A major winter storm is bringing ice, snow and freezing rain from the Plains to the East Coast through Tuesday.
A powerful and deadly winter storm that stretched thousands of miles across the U.S., slamming major cities from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic, has finally come to an end.
The trooper was referring to the scene as ice shut down lengthy stretches of Interstate 70 in the state and triggered wrecks all along the way. It was just the beginning of a major winter storm's impact on tens of millions from the Plains and Midwest to the mid-Atlantic.
"I-70 - Salinas, Saline, Dickinson, Lincoln, Russell County — all those counties on I-70 have significant crashes happening," said Ben Gardner, a trooper with the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Snow, sometimes moderate to heavy, on Monday will move from southern Illinois into the mid-Atlantic ... public information officer for the Kansas Highway Patrol, who goes by Trooper Ben.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) crash logs ... Both the man and the woman are from Frederick, Illinois. KHP says they were both wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident.