Great Lakes region gets yet more snow after a weekend of snarled Thanksgiving travel

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Parts of the Great Lakes region are seeing new snow and face the prospect of even more this week after U.S. travelers battled harsh weather to get home after Thanksgiving. Snow showers fell in western Michigan early Monday. Heavier, persistent snow of up to a foot is expected to follow. More snow, gusty winds and freezing temperatures are forecast on Wednesday and Thursday. Lake-effect snow warnings are in effect through Tuesday night in parts of Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. That’s on top of nearly 4 feet of lake-effect snow that fell over the weekend on upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Ex-Kansas detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women is dead

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a white ex-Kansas detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women has died of a gunshot wound at his home. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation there were no indications of foul play in the death of 71-year-old Roger Golubski. He died as his trial in Topeka was set to begin on six felony counts of violating women’s civil rights. Prosecutors say Golubski used to demand sexual favors from female residents of poor neighborhoods and would sometimes threaten to jail their relatives if they turned him down. Golubski was accused of sexually assaulting one woman starting when she was barely a teenager and another after her sons were arrested.

Supreme Court justices question block on flavored vapes

WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Supreme Court justices didn’t seem convinced Monday that federal regulators misled companies as they refused to allow them to sell sweet flavored vaping products following a surge in teen e-cigarette use. The court did raise questions about Food and Drug Administration crackdown that included denials of more than a million nicotine products formulated to taste like fruit, desert or candy. Teen vaping use has since dropped to a decade low, but the agency could change its approach after the inauguration next month of President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to “save” vaping. Vape companies said the FDA changed its standards with little warning and disregarded their plans to sell only to adults as the agency refusal to allow the sale of more than a million new vape products.

More than 3 million travelers screened at US airports in a single day

(AP) — Travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday are setting a record. The Transportation Security Administration says that it screened nearly 3.1 million travelers on Sunday, breaking the previous record by about 74,000. That mark was set on July 7, also a Sunday after a holiday, July Fourth. Hundreds of thousands of travelers were delayed or had their flights canceled. FlightAware says more 6,800 flights were delayed on Sunday, with the highest numbers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.