As federal courts litigate the Kansas Highway Patrol's controversial two-step technique, a state appeals court upheld it in an asset forfeiture case.

Dozens of people were injured in car crashes in Missouri and Kansas during the massive snowstorm. One Jackson County public works employee, Everett Carter, was killed during snow removal operations in Blue Summit.

A major winter storm is bringing ice, snow and freezing rain from the Plains to the East Coast through Tuesday.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) crash logs ... Both the man and the woman are from Frederick, Illinois. KHP says they were both wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident.

The trooper was referring to the scene as ice shut down lengthy stretches of Interstate 70 in the state and triggered wrecks all along the way. It was just the beginning of a major winter storm's impact on tens of millions from the Plains and Midwest to the mid-Atlantic.