Severe storms overnight in Nebraska, Texas and Ohio damaged homes and tossed rail cars as well as at least one tractor-trailer, and the threat continued Monday with a large part of the central U.S. on alert.

Jamal Stevens, 7, is among the few who can say they survived being picked up and tossed around by a tornado. A lot of factors are at play, say experts, but probably paramount is luck.

A 7-year-old boy who was sucked from his home by a tornado on Friday and dropped 350 away on the side of an interstate is home from the hospital, recovering from his injuries.

A blonde, blue-eyed baby girl found alive in a field after tornadoes swept through Indiana was in critical condition on Saturday, authorities said.

A blonde, blue-eyed baby girl found alive in a field after tornadoes swept through Indiana was in critical condition on Saturday, authorities said.

As tornadoes left deadly destruction in southern Indiana, officials say they found a toddler alive in a field in Salem. The child was taken to a hospital in Salem before being airlifted to Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Ky.

At least four people were killed and thousands were without power early Wednesday after a line of tornadoes marched across the Midwest.

As spring approaches, recent rains across much of the state are giving drought-weary Texans hope that the devastation may be over.

Snowpack levels in the Sierra mountains are at 30 percent of normal, according to reports, which could spell setback for farmers and municipal users in 2012.

Damaging strong winds and some isolated tornadoes are likely to strike the South later Friday as part of a large storm system moving across the eastern half of the country that's dumping snow in the Midwest, the National Weather Service said.

A tornado touched down near Rome, Ga., damaging homes, knocking out power and forcing schools to close, local media reported, citing authorities.

When three boys ran out of firewood while trapped in a Colorado blizzard, they turned to the next flammable thing they could think of, NBC station KUSA of Denver reports.

A winter storm dumped several inches of snow across parts of the South, causing power outages, slippery roads and numerous accidents.

Heavy rains dampened but couldn't stop Mardi Gras festivities Saturday in New Orleans.

The south central United States was pelted with a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain that threatened travel on Sunday, while frigid temperatures chilled the East Coast during what has been an unseasonably mild winter, forecasters said.

Environmental groups on Thursday sued an oil company over the pace of its cleanup of a Gulf of Mexico spill that continues seven years after it was triggered by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

One of the few snowy stormfronts so far this winter is about to hit the central U.S., but snow-starved areas in the north -- from Minnesota to New England -- won't be getting any.

The drought ravaging Texas has done what the Dust Bowl could not: forced ranchers to ship cattle more than 600 miles north to Nebraska.

At least nine people died in crashes overnight apparently caused by fog and smoke from a wildfire along Interstate 75 in north Florida, authorities said Sunday.

A 24-year-old snowboarder has died after becoming trapped in an avalanche in a steep Utah backcountry area that the public was warned to avoid after potent snowstorms.

A Dallas-area woman who can't swim was rescued after she accidentally drove her sport utility vehicle into a flooded intersection.

Residents were sifting through the debris from 500 homes and 50 businesses either destroyed or damaged by storms that spawned three twisters.

A snowmobiler caught in an avalanche on Stampede Pass Sunday was quickly rescued by friends who watched it happen.

An Oregon man raced along the rain-swollen Clackamas River but couldn't keep up with his 6-year-old daughter who had fallen into the stream and was swept downriver, authorities said.

The wildfire that destroyed 29 homes near Reno is contained. Thousands of evacuees are back home. And the family of the woman found dead says there's no point in prosecuting the remorseful man who accidentally started it.

Fierce winds fuel a fast-moving brush fire through a valley south of Reno, destroying several homes and threatening many more along a stretch of U.S. 395.

A day after a storm covered Washington state in snow, the Seattle area woke up to a new menace: an ice storm. The area's main airport was shut down for de-icing and 100,000 homes and businesses lost power.

The Pacific Northwest storm that dumped snow across Washington and rain across Oregon claimed at least one life, that of a child swept into an underground culvert by flooding.

A team of skilled skiers and climbers was being prepared to search for two campers and two climbers overdue from their trips up Mount Rainier during a major winter storm.

It’s been eight months since Joplin, Mo., was devastated by a tornado, and now the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau is offering a map designed to facilitate visiting the city’s most devastated places.