A small temblor startled residents near Richmond this week. Over a decade ago, a 5.8 earthquake in Virginia became the most felt quake in the U.S.

The wintry wallop comes as a blast of Arctic air will invade much of the Midwest, Great Lakes and northern United States for roughly a week.

The storm system worked its way through the northern Rockies and central Plains during the first half of the weekend, hours after slamming the West Coast and even spawning the first tornado of the

with states of emergency in effect in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move across ...

A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast on Monday, prompting sc