STATE braces for bad weather

Northern Arkansas readies for ice, electric outages

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Cashier Lauren Smith, right, chats with Jana McDougal, left, and her grandmother Jan Cloud, as she rings up two sets of flashlights Wednesday afternoon at Harps Food Store in Salem, Ark. In preparation for the incoming weather, Cloud had checked her flashlights to find that some were corroded and ne...

LITTLE ROCK—Sleet, snow and freezing rain clogged major highways and made for slippery travel on back roads in northern Arkansas on Wednesday as the middle section of the nation braced for a night of storm-wrought misery.

The National Weather Service issued winter s...

Published: 02/21/2013