A major winter storm has disrupted daily life across the Southern U.S., closing schools for 1.5 million students in Texas, Arkansas, and Virginia. With heavy snow, freezing rain, and temperatures plummeting,

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A developing winter storm threatens to drop snow, sleet and freezing rain on parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas as frigid air that escaped the Arctic plunges temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S.

The monthly Virtual VA Claims Clinic for Arkansas will be 4-6 p.m. Thursday, January 23. Veterans may speak one-on-one with staff of the Little Rock VA Regional Office who are ready to assist with specific questions regarding claims for VA benefits.

Arkansas' capital, Little Rock, closed schools on Thursday ... were canceled Wednesday for a third-straight day and Virginia's capital, Richmond, was still under a weather-related water-boil ...