A salt truck ran off the road and overturned on the A76 in the Scottish village of Mennock, about 37 miles southeast of Glasgow, the Dumfries and Galloway Police Department reported. (Dumfries and Galloway Police/Twitter) At a Glance Hundreds have lost power because of fallen trees.Roads and bridges are closed.The storm is expected to cause headaches in western Europe beginning Monday. Snow that fell overnight across parts of the United Kingdom was the first blow of a severe storm that...

At a Glance Winter Storm Taylor closed lengthy stretches of two interstates Saturday in South Dakota.A stretch of I-80 in Wyoming was closed due to poor visibility and crashes.Officials in several northern Plains states urged drivers to avoid travel unless absolutely necessary. Winter Storm Taylor moved into the upper Midwest and the Northeast early Sunday bringing high winds and snow that knocked out power, closed roads and canceled flights. More than had no electricity in Michigan as of 1:30 p.m....

At a Glance Officials said 30 passengers were hurt when a Turkish Airlines plane hit severe turbulence Saturday afternoon.The flight, which began in Istanbul, landed safely in New York City at 5:35 p.m.The National Weather Service issued a warning about turbulence for the area. Thirty people were injured Saturday afternoon when a Turkish Airlines flight bound for New York City hit severe turbulence, officials said. "There was like one or two seconds when it was subtle, but then it really...

A photo provided by AquaBountyTechnologies shows a juvenile salmon raised at the company's hatchery in Fortune, Prince Edward Island, Canada. (AquaBountyTechnologies via AP) At a Glance The FDA had originally approved the salmon as human food in 2015.Congress said rules on how genetically modified food is labeled had to be implemented first.The FDA says those standards are in place, so the salmon eggs can be imported to a facility in Indiana. Genetically modified salmon are one step closer to reaching...

At a Glance Two men clearing a roof in Crested Butte were buried by a roof avalanche.One of the men died and the other was hospitalized.In a separate incident, a man was buried for two hours after roof snow fell on him. One man has been killed and two others injured after being buried by roof avalanches in Colorado. Two men were clearing the roof of a commercial building in Crested Butte, Colorado, about 4 p.m. Saturday when the ,...

At a Glance The 2,800 square miles burned in California last year is the "highest in recorded history." More than 100 people died in the state's 8,000 wildfires.More than 39,000 square miles of wildlands remain under very high or extreme fire threat, Cal Fire said. California's wildfires burned more than 2,849 square miles and destroyed more than 17,000 homes in 2018, a new national report details, marking the worst wildfire season in the state's history. “That’s the ,” Scott McLean,...

At a Glance Rain fell overnight in Brazil's largest city, killing at least 11.Four people died when a house collapsed.River flooding killed another two people. At least 11 people, including a 1-year-old baby, have been killed by flooding brought on by heavy rainfall in and around São Paulo, Brazil. Four people died when a house collapsed in the city of Ribeirao Pires, the São Paulo fire department said. The department also said two people drowned because of flooding of the...

At a Glance A home in Waverly Hall, Georgia, seems to have miraculously survived a direct hit by a tornado. The house remained standing in the middle of a path carved out by the tornado through a wooded neighborhood. A tornado that tore through a Georgia neighborhood on March 3 carved a distinctive path through a wooded subdivision, leaving hundreds of downed trees. In the middle of the twister's path stands a two-story house that made it through the storm...

At a Glance For only the fifth time in 20 years, Lake Superior nearly reached 100 percent ice coverage.All of the Great Lakes combined reached 71 percent ice coverage on March 10. For only the fifth time in 20 years, the ice cover on Lake Superior reached more than 90 percent over the weekend. Ice coverage was before it dropped to 94.65 at the lake Saturday, according to WXYZ.com. By Sunday, ice coverage was down to 87 percent, the report...

At a Glance The challenge is to clean up a part of your community and share before and after photos.A March 5 Facebook post about the challenge has been shared more than 320,000 times. A online effort to clean up the world — the #TrashTag Challenge — has resurged more than four years after getting its start. Social media has been flooded this past week with photos of people taking the challenge, which involves finding a place filled with litter,...

At a Glance Heavy rain and flooding caused a rare lake to appear in California's Death Valley.A Los Angeles-based photographer captured mesmerizing images of the temporary lake. Heavy rains and flooding created a rare, 10-mile-long lake last week in the driest spot in the United States – Southern California's Death Valley National Park. Photographer Elliot McGucken of Los Angeles was on his way to Badwater Basin in Death Valley when he came across the temporary and unnamed lake near Salt...

At a Glance Avalanche control work sent another 60 feet of snow and debris onto U.S. 550 near Ouray, Colorado.The town is cut off from Silverton, Durango and everything else south of it.More snow is on the way there from Winter Storm Ulmer. An "incredible and daunting" amount of snow has closed a highway in southwest Colorado virtually shutting off the town of Ouray from everything south of it. Ouray, pronounced U-ray, is in the Red Mountain Pass along U.S....