Schools and cities from Texas to Georgia are shutting down in anticipation of freezing rain and snow forecast for much of the Southern U.S. The severe weather is expected across a stretch from New Mexico to Alabama starting Wednesday night and early Thursday.

Another weekend of conference play in college basketball is underway with plenty of marquee matchups Saturday including a showdown between two of the top programs from the Mountain West. New Mexico will put its perfect 5-0 record against conference opponents on the line when it hosts San Diego State on CBS.

A South Carolina man changed his plea Friday to guilty in the murder of a New Mexico State Police officer who stopped to help him with what appeared to be a flat tire on Interstate 40. Jaremy Smith was already wanted for the murder of a paramedic in South Carolina when he shot Officer Justin

Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatened to declare the property a natural protected area or seize it by force if Vulcan didn’t accept a $360 million offer for the gravel pits. Vulcan maintains the Punta Venado deep-water port facility has an estimated value of more than $1 billion.

President-elect Donald Trump announced his plans to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” in a press conference this morning at Mar-a-Lago.

In some high-elevation areas, including in parts of Texas, wind chill was plunging the feels-like temperatures to subzero levels.

This past week Alabama throttled South Carolina 88-68 and narrowly escaped then-No. 10 Texas A&M 94-88. The results of this week moved Alabama up to No. 4 in the AP Top 25 Poll, and the Tide remained at No. 5 in the Coaches Poll on Monday.

K-State has been busy restocking the wide receiver position after losing four contributors from last season. The 6-foot-1, 198-pound Medford is the third wideout to join the Wildcats via the transfer portal, following Boston College's Jerand Bradley and Jaron Tibbs from Purdue.

Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

Colgate at Lafayette, 1 p.m. Maine at UMBC, 1 p.m. Mercyhurst at Wagner, 1 p.m. Albany (NY) at Binghamton, 2 p.m. Canisius at Fairfield, 2 p.m. Cornell at Penn, 2 p.m.

Nebraska boasts one of the top-ranked transfer portal classes in the Big Ten, but the Cornhuskers are far from finished in their quest to add more elite players

OCEARCH has tracked Crystal up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick, back down around the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico.