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UNDATED (AP) — The season's first major winter storm is leaving snow throughout southern New England, causing slippery road conditions. Snow fell for hours this morning. Snowfall ranged from just under 3 inches in southeastern Massachusetts to higher than 7 inches in parts of Connecticut and western Massachusetts. Forecasters warn of treacherous black ice conditions tonight in parts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say four people have been shot to death and one critically injured at a home on the city's far South Side. Officers were called to the scene shortly after noon today. Police say they do not yet know exactly when the people were shot, the circumstances of the shooting or the names of the victims. A spokesman says no arrests have been made. The shootings come near the end of the deadliest years in recent history in Chicago.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, says he won't know until Sunday whether a ban on drinking, cooking or bathing with tap water will be lifted for the 113,000 residents still under the restrictions. That's roughly a third of the Gulf Coast city's population. Mayor Dan McQueen also says there is no indication yet that the chemical leak at an asphalt plant contaminated the city's water supply.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is wrapping up his postelection victory tour. On the final stop on his "thank you" tour this afternoon, he held a boisterous rally at a football stadium in Mobile, Alabama. Earlier in the day, Trump announced that he intends to nominate Mick Mulvaney, a conservative Republican congressman from South Carolina who's viewed as a budget hawk, to be the White House budget director.
CINCINNATI (AP) — The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich (HEYEM'-lik) maneuver for choking victims has died. Dr. Henry Heimlich died early today at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. He was 96. His son, Phil, says he suffered a heart attack earlier in the week. Heimlich was director of surgery at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in 1974 when he devised the treatment for choking victims that made his name a household word.
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