Snow forces many school closures
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More than 2,000 schools across Wales and England are forced to close by the heaviest snowfall for years.
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Heavy snowfall shut five British airports Thursday and forced the cancellation of some train service in England and Wales. Officials said that Luton and Stansted airports remained closed and advised travelers to contact their airlines before leaving home. Three other airports &#151; Bristol, Birmingham, and Cardiff &#151; reopened after workers cleared snow from their runways.
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DENVER, Feb. 24 -- A large, fast-moving snowstorm closed sections of major highways in the Plains on Saturday and threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest.
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By Pete Bosak, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Dec. 8--SNOW SHOE -- Fifteen vehicles, including seven tractor-trailers, crashed and piled up on an ice-covered Interstate 80 Thursday afternoon as a snow squall moved through and caused whiteout conditions.
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A winter storm brought near-blizzard conditions to much of the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transportation across the region, while a deadly New Orleans tornado ripped through New Orleans.
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Thousands of schools across Wales and England are forced to close by the heaviest snowfall for years.
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TRENTON, Ohio - Two teenage girls posted a fake announcement on their school district's Web site that said school was closed for the day due to winter weather, police said.
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The massive Valentine's Day sleet and ice storm that triggered the closure of most schools and many local governments in the Washington area today has left more than 124,000 homes and businesses without power and prompted weather forecasters to predict an icy commute tomorrow morning.
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A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights.
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Yesterday's slush-turned-snowstorm had been mostly plowed and shoveled by this morning, but many school systems said they would open two hours late and many schools in the outer Virginia suburbs closed altogether.
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The first major snowstorm of the season blew across the Plains and Midwest on Thursday, grounding hundreds of flights, closing schools, glazing highways and threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on communities that had basked in balmy weather only days earlier.
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By Jana Hollingsworth, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 7--During last week's blizzard in Duluth, colleges and universities used many methods to alert students to campus closings.   The College of St. Scholastica sent a mass e-mail to students and staff.
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DENVER, Feb. 24 -- A large, fast-moving snowstorm that closed sections of major highways in the Plains on Saturday was blamed for seven traffic deaths, while strong winds in Arkansas cut a five-mile-long swath of damage, destroying buildings and leaving several people injured.
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Snow-laden western New York braced for another wintery onslaught Wednesday as storms closed schools, menaced motorists and knocked out power in communities from the Midwest to the Northeast.
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More than 80 schools are closed as thousands of workers in the UK's biggest local authority go on strike.
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A winter storm rushed across the Southeast on Thursday, closing schools and grounding flights a day after coating roads with deadly ice in the Plains.
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ALBANY, N.Y. - Snow-laden western New York braced for another wintery onslaught Wednesday as storms closed schools, menaced motorists and knocked out power in communities from the Midwest to the Northeast. The storms were blamed for at least one death in Ohio. New York Gov.