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Sioux Falls convenience store robbed at gunpoint
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls police are investigating the armed robbery of a convenience store.
• Authorities say a male entered the Freedom Valu Center shortly before 2 a.m. Monday, showed a handgun and demanded money. He fled with an undetermined amount of cash.
• The clerk was not hurt.
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I-29 closed between Sioux Falls, Canada border
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Travel remains treacherous in eastern South Dakota and some schools are starting late after a weekend blizzard that tore through the region.
• Interstate 29 is closed from Sioux Falls to the Canadian border, after Sunday's storm brought wind gusts in excess of 60 mph that blew and drifted snow.
• The storm also brought dangerous cold weather overnight, with wind chills dropping into the minus 30s.
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Persistent below-zero temps visit Midwest again
DON BABWIN, Associated Press
• CHICAGO (AP) -- Another winter day, another below-zero high temperature for many parts of the Midwest -- at least, it seems that way. The deep chill has returned, bringing with it wind chills ranging from the negative teens to 40s, school cancellations and sighs of resignation from residents who are weary of bundling up.
• A persistent weather pattern that's driving Arctic air south was forecast to force temperatures to plummet for about 2½ days, starting overnight Sunday. Actual temperatures will range from the teens in northern Kentucky to double-digits below zero in Minnesota, but even colder wind chills were expected -- minus 43 in Minneapolis, minus 23 in Chicago, minus 18 in Dayton, Ohio, minus 14 in Kansas City, Mo., and minus 3 in Louisville, Ky.
• "I'm sick of it," Chicago resident Matt Ryan, 19, said Sunday on his way to his family's home in the suburb of Oak Park.
• "I came home to steal a scarf from my parents," he said. Ryan's plan for Monday, (Continued on page 21)
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