The Flood Protection Association said compacted snow and ice would melt more slowly than snow on the ground.

BBC: Snowman

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classified the innocuous ice-minus bacterium, which was to be tested in northern California on small, fenced-off plots of potatoes and strawberries, as a pesticide.

FORBES: Commentary

U.S. Department of Homeland Security databases show that Noriega Rios had been arrested and repatriated to Mexico five times between 2004 and 2005 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents, and she had no U.S. criminal convictions, ICE officials said.

CNN: Alleged Mexican cartel operative 'La Bonita' arrested