Power is returning to the hardest hit areas of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina Friday, 48 hours after Winter Storm Paxcoated trees and power lines with a thick layer of iceand snow. At least 26 deaths in the region have been blamed on the winter storm, which dumped snow and ice up the East Coast,snapped trees and utility poles and snarled traffic. The damage in some parts of the south was so devastating that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley...

WASHINGTON – Cold and snow keep battering the Midwest and East, and even Atlanta was temporarily paralyzed. California has been bone dry. Alaska set heat records. The wild winter somehow became even more wicked Thursday morning when the national average temperature plunged to a brutal 11 degrees, prompting a weather-weary nation to ask a simple question: Why? The answer is the jet stream, the river of air that dictates our weather. (MORE: Cities Sick of Snow This Winter) "A persistent...

Winter Storm Orion,the 15th named storm of the 2013-14 winter storm season, brought much-needed snowfall to the West, bringing welcome moisture to a drought-parched region. The lion's share of the snow from Orion came Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 6-8, in the West. The primary disturbance then zipped across the Midwest and Northeast Sunday into early Monday, Feb. 9-10. A piece of Orion's energy broke off and brought some snow from Oklahoma and Texas to Kentucky on Friday and early Saturday,...