These fast-hitting, intense blasts of snow and whipping winds can make for treacherous travel, especially on the highway.

Passengers on the jet that collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night included a group of figure skaters and their parents and coaches with ties to Massachusetts.

YORK HARBOR, Maine — A second earthquake in just three days was detected off the coast of New England early Wednesday morning. The United States Geological Survey confirmed a 2.0 magnitude earthquake centered southeast of York Harbor, Maine, just north of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, around 3:15 a.m.

Authorities say they fear there are no survivors after an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided midair near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington.

Several Massachusetts professional sports teams offered up prayers and held moments of silence Thursday in remembrance of the 67 people killed in a mid-air plane crash over Washington, D.C., Wednesday evening.

The largest known New England earthquakes were a 6.5-magnitude in 1638 centered in Vermont or New Hampshire, and a 5.8-magnitude centered offshore from Cape Ann in 1755, which resulted in severe damage to the Boston waterfront.

Communities from Maine to Massachusetts felt a 3.8 magnitude earthquake rattle across the ground Monday morning.

Snow squalls could create hazardous travel in parts of New England during the late morning to early afternoon.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced tough questions from Massachusetts and New Hampshire senators on vaccines and abortion at his confirmation hearing.

The classes using the new lab are not necessarily in the hard sciences but instead communications, marketing or psychology.

The event proved to be quite dramatic for the colonial settlers, causing dishes to rattle, doors to shake, and buildings to tremble. The earthquake's impact was so startling that field workers abandoned their tools and fled in panic across the countryside.