As the extended holiday weekend for some unfolds, a rainstorm threatens to soak some outdoor plans in the southern United States. Thunderstorms will erupt as well and some may be severe.

Winter in the south is such that the prognosis is the choose-your-own-adventure, only the twist to it is ice on the driveway. Following a big storm that deposited plenty of ice, much heavy snow in the ...

Crews drilling a relief well aimed at putting a permanent underground plug in BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico will suspend their work until storms pass, the government's point man for the ...