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The LPGA and TMRW Sports on Tuesday announced the formation of the new WTGL, which will begin in the winter of 2026-27.

WTGL will feature teams of LPGA Tour stars competing in simulator-based matches from SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Yet to be confirmed are the players involved and whether teams will be aligned with the current TGL franchises.

"Partnering with TMRW Sports on WTGL reflects our belief that innovation can help the game reach new fans and create greater visibility for LPGA athletes," LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler said. "I've seen how new formats can engage audiences while showcasing both athlete personality and performance, and WTGL brings that spirit of innovation to the women's game. It creates another global stage for our athletes -- one that helps fans connect more deeply with them and continues to elevate the visibility and growth of women's golf."

TMRW Sports was founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and former NBC Sports executive Mike McCarley.

"In partnership with the LPGA, WTGL is another step in creating a modern, media-focused version of a centuries-old game that appeals to today's sports fan," said McCarley, who serves as CEO of TMRW Sports.

"Since the launch of TGL a year ago, TMRW Sports has been putting the pieces in place to create a women's league featuring the best players in the world. Now, along with the LPGA and its athletes, we look forward to creating a stage to help showcase the stars of the LPGA. WTGL's short-form, team golf format will engage new audiences and complement the LPGA Tour's global appeal."

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Her choice, just like his, was the Toronto Blue Jays.

The defending AL champion Blue Jays introduced their newest signing at a press conference Tuesday, two days after finalizinga four-year, $60 million contractwith the 29-year-old corner infielder.

"The acquisition of Kazuma Okamoto is another significant step for this organization," Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said. "We definitely got better today."

After comingwithin two outs of their first World Series titlesince 1993, the Blue Jays have made significant additions this offseason. Before adding Okamoto, Toronto signed three pitchers, starting witha $210 million, seven-year contractfor right-hander Dylan Cease. The Blue Jays also signed right-hander Cody Ponce toa $30 million, three-year contractand reacheda $37 million, three-year dealwith reliever Tyler Rogers.

Okamoto spoke mostly in Japanese Tuesday but opened with a few lines in English.

"Thank you very much for this opportunity," he said. "I am very happy to join the Blue Jays. I will work hard every day and do my best for the team. Thank you for your support. Nice to meet you. Go Blue Jays."

Okamoto hit .327 with 15 homers and 49 RBIs in 69 games last year for the Central League's Yomiuri Giants. He injured his left elbow while trying to catch a throw at first base on May 6 when he collided with the Hanshin Tigers' Takumu Nakano, an injury that sidelined Okamoto until Aug. 16.

Okamoto had a .277 average with 248 homers and 717 RBIs in 11 Japanese big league seasons. The six-time All-Star led the Central League in home runs in 2020, 2021 and 2023.

"It's been exciting to watch him over the years," Atkins said. "He's had an incredible career thus far. The impact on both sides of the ball, the offensive abilities (are) as dynamic as it comes. It fits us very well."

Atkins didn't commit to a defensive position for Okamoto, saying the Blue Jays value his versatility to play both corner spots and the outfield.

"He could impact our organization from a defensive standpoint in several ways," Atkins said. "We'll continue to have that dialogue with him."

Atkins didn't rule out further moves but said there'd be roster implications with any new additions.

"We do feel good about our team," he said. "The one thing that I would add is additions at this point will start to cut away at playing time from players that we feel are very good major league pieces, so we have to factor that in."

Among the remaining free agents is two-time All-Star shortstop Bo Bichette, who hit .311 with 18 home runs and 94 RBIs for the Blue Jays in 2025. Bichette alsohomered off Shohei Ohtani in Game 7 of the World Series.

Okamoto connected off Colorado's Kyle Freelandto help Japan beat the U.S.3-2 in the 2023 World Baseball Classic final. Now a big leaguer, he said he hopes to represent his country again in the 2026 tournament this March.

While the Blue Jays logo was appealing to Okamoto's daughter, the infielder acknowledged having a different reaction to seeing his new manager, John Schneider, on TV during last year's World Series.

"His face is scary but he seems like a really nice guy," Okamoto said through a translator, adding that he'd since met Schneider on a video call.

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• A longtime character on The Simpsons has retired

• In season 37 episode "Seperance," the show revealed that the Duffman mascot has been discontinued after nearly 30 years on the show

• "The Duff Corporation has retired that character forever," he told the Simpsons family

The Simpsonsis bidding farewell to one of its longtime characters.

On the Sunday, Jan. 4 episode, aSeveranceparody entitled "Seperance,"The Simpsonsrevealed the "forever" retirement of a character who has been a staple on the show for nearly three decades — but the writers didn'tkill anyone offthis time to make it happen.

Instead, the season 37 episode found Duffman — the popular Duff Beer spokesperson who speaks in third person — announcing that the company mascot he's portrayed for much of the show's run has been retired for good.

Duffman, or Barry Duffman, shared the news with viewers when he entered Homer and Marge Simpson's home to greet the titular family. "The Duff Corporation has retired that character forever," he revealed. "All the old forms of advertising are now passé. Corporate spokesmen, print ads, TV spots. Today's kids can't even sing the jingles."

AsTVLinepointed out, Barry — who tried to recruit Homer to join a corporation called EOD in the episode, before eventually deprogramming himself — could be seen later in the episode still not in his classic Duffman uniform. So his retirement may just be for good.

The Duffman mascot, voiced by Hank Azaria, has been played by multiple characters in the show over the years — so it's not just one guy yelling out "oh yeah." The mascot is best known for his signature catch phrase and outrageous costume featuring a red cape, sunglasses and a belt decorated with beer bottles.

He first appeared in the 1997 episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," with his last proper appearance before Sunday's episode taking place in last season's "P.S. I Hate You."

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Duffman's apparent send-off comes less than two months after the death of another longtimeSimpsonsregular, First Church Organist Alice Glick, who died during a sermon. Before the character's death, she appeared on the show for 34 years and a total of 35 seasons.

Earlier in season 37, in an episode entitled "Sashes to Sashes," Springfield Elementary honored her in a memorial service. Executive producer Tim Long told PEOPLE in a statement that Alice was gone for good.

"In a sense, Alice the organist will live forever, through the beautiful music she made," he said. "But in another, more important sense, yep she's dead as a doornail."

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Less than 36 hours before they were killed last month, Rob and Michele Reiner sat in a Los Angeles theater watching "Lyrics From Lockdown," a one-man show about race, justice and mass incarceration in America.

The show focuses on Nanon Williams, who is serving his 34th year in a Texas prison for a murder he says he didn't commit — and who, over the past decade, quietly forged a remarkable relationship with the Reiners.

Rob, a famed director, and Michele, a photographer, producer and activist, had come to love Williams, 51, like a son, emailing him almost daily. They had invited him to live with them if he ever got out of prison. Their daughter, Romy, called Williams her big brother.

"He became like family," Romy said in a statement to NBC News.

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The Reiners' bond with Williams, which has not previously been reported, was built on ideals that animated much of Rob's work — love, chosen family, compassion and redemption. After being charged with murder at 17, Williams had spent his entire adult life behind bars, much of it in near-total isolation. The Reiners lived in a world defined by film premieres, public platforms and near-constant access to power. The connection they discovered was as profound as it was unlikely.

The Reiners were "an integral part of my life," Williams told NBC News in an interview from prison last week. "They became a part of me."

On the last Friday evening of the Reiners' lives, Dec. 12, words that Williams wrote from prison about survival were read from a Los Angeles stage. Williams' mother and sisters were in the audience, along with the woman he'd fallen in love with and married from prison. The Reiners were on a double date with their dear friends, Billy Crystal and his wife. Romy came, too.

The mood was electric. Williams' fight for freedom had been gaining traction. His case was back in court, fueled by evidence discrediting the ballistics testimony that helped convict him for a 1992 shooting.

In the theater that night, Rob spotted Williams' sister, Angela Grant Clayton, and hugged her.

"We're going to make sure Nanon gets out," he told her.

Williams' mother, Lee Diana Bolton, said Rob and Michele pulled her into a tight, lingering embrace.

"These were not phony people," she said later. "These were the sweetest, most loving people that I have ever met."

After the show, the Reiners gathered with a small circle of advocates who had been pressing for Williams' exoneration. Georgetown professor Marc Howard was one of them. Near the stage, they all discussed the latest developments in Williams' appeal.

"It was a conversation so full of hope, happiness," Howard said later. "It felt like the very next step was Nanon coming home."

Two days later,on Dec. 14, Nanon Williams was at the W.F. Ramsey Unit, a maximum-security prison about 40 miles south of Houston, speaking with other incarcerated men about health, trauma and survival.

When he returned to his cell, he opened his state-issued tablet — his main window to the outside world — and saw a news alert. Two people had been found dead in a home owned by Rob and Michele Reiner.

Williams immediately typed a message to Michele. "Please, this can't be true," he wrote. "Please tell me the news is lying."

Soon, though, his fears were confirmed: The Reiners were dead, and their son, Nick, had been charged with murder. Two of the people Williams was closest to in the world were gone, and he was left to grieve alone.

Receiving emails in prison can take hours, sometimes days. Messages are screened and scrutinized, creating delays that become agonizing in times of crisis.

In the days that followed, three new emails from Rob and Michele appeared on Williams' tablet. Michele's final message was timestamped Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8:26 p.m. EST. She'd sent it the day after seeing "Lyrics From Lockdown" — only hours before her death.

The subject line read: "Ugly Side of Beautiful"

"I'm sure you have heard from Tera," Michele had written, referring to Williams' wife, "but the show last night was amazing."

She wrote about meeting his mother. How beautiful she was. How Billy Crystal was moved by the performance. And about hope for Nanon's future.

"We all said that we can't wait to watch it with you."

She signed off the way she always did.

Nanon Williams grewup in Los Angeles amid violence and chaos. As a toddler in the 1970s, he visited his father in prison. His mother had also been in jail on drug charges. At 7, Williams witnessed his uncle gunned down in the doorway of his home.

By the time he turned 11, his dad had come home, but their life together didn't last long. He was shot and killed over drug territory. Williams went to live with relatives. Today, his mother is a steady presence in his life.

As a teenager, he was on his own, buying and selling drugs.

That's what he was doing on the night of May 13, 1992, while visiting his grandparents in Houston. Several people met at a city park. Williams and others carried guns. Something went wrong. Multiple shots were fired. A 19-year-old named Adonius Collier was killed.

Williams was 17, too young to vote or buy alcohol, but old enough to face the death penalty.

The state's case rested on two pillars: the testimony of a co-defendant, Vaal Guevara, who said he watched Williams pull the trigger, and a ballistics expert who said the bullet recovered from Collier's skull came from Williams' .25-caliber handgun — not from Guevara's .22 Derringer.

Guevara, who admitted he'd also shot at Collier but claimed he missed, had taken a deal: plead guilty to a drug charge, testify against Williams and serve 10 years. He ultimately served only four.

Williams acknowledges he fired his gun in the melee; witnesses said his shots injured another man. But he denies shooting Collier.

"I've done wrong," Williams said. "But killed someone? No, I've never killed anyone."

At his 1995 trial, prosecutors described the ballistics evidence tying Williams to the murder as "uncontradicted" and "failsafe." His lawyer never challenged it.

The jury convicted Williams and sentenced him to death.

He remembers the judge telling him, "the sentence is until you're dead, dead, dead." He heard his mother cry out. His grandmother collapsed.

He was shipped off to death row, where he lived in solitary confinement in a small, dark cell near other men waiting for their scheduled dates to die. He began measuring time by executions. One by one, men he'd come to know were taken away and never returned.

"I used to feel guilty about living," Williams said. "I used to wonder why I was still here."

He began etching their state-assigned numbers into his skin with a needle and ink — his own private ledger to remember them. Up his arms. Across his chest. Down his legs.

"Now I know 466 men who were executed," he said.

Three years after his conviction, much of the evidence used against Williamsbegan to fall apart.

In 1998, his appellate lawyer requested testing of Guevara's .22 Derringer. Prosecutors asked the same ballistics expert who testified at trial to test-fire the gun — something he'd never done.

The analyst, Robert Baldwin, wrote a 1998 letter to the prosecutor with his results. He said he'd been wrong. The bullet taken from Collier's head had, in fact, been fired from Guevara's .22 Derringer, not Williams' gun.

In 1999, the prosecutor wrote a letter opposing Guevara's parole. In it, he made a stunning admission about his star witness: "At trial Guevara was very evasive and apparently not at all truthful," he wrote. The additional evidence, the prosecutor said, indicates that Guevara, "rather than merely being a witness, likely participated in Collier's murder." Guevara didn't respond to messages from NBC News.

A juror from Williams' trial later signed an affidavit filed in Williams' case saying the new evidence could have changed her verdict; another said definitively she would have voted to acquit.

In 2001, a state judge held post-conviction hearingsand concludedWilliams deserved a new trial. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appealsrejected her recommendation.

Williams remained in prison, awaiting his turn to die.

The story ofhow a legendary Hollywood director and his wife became like family to a man convicted of murder began with letters and a poem.

In 2003, from death row, Williams learned about a "60 Minutes" segment on a Harvard Law School student who was swept into the criminal justice system simply for being Black.

Bryonn Bain had been walking past a crime scene in New York with his brother and cousin when all three were arrested; they were ultimately cleared.

Inspired, Williams wrote Bain letters about his own plight. Then he sent a poem called "Parallel Universe."

What if Bain had grown up in Los Angeles as Williams had, instead of on the East Coast? What if Williams had Bain's parents and opportunities? In a parallel universe, Williams wrote, maybe he'd be the one at Harvard. Maybe Bain would be the one facing execution.

Bain, who also wrote poetry, began conceiving a stage show where he would weave his lived experience and Williams' writings into a spoken-word, multimedia performance.

The result was "Lyrics From Lockdown," which premiered at the National Black Theatre in 2013, with singer and activist Harry Belafonte and his daughter Gina executive producing.

By then, Williams was no longer on death row. After the U.S. Supreme Court banned executions in 2005 for crimes committed by juveniles, his sentence had been reduced to life without parole.

In 2016, Rob and Michele Reiner saw "Lyrics From Lockdown" in Los Angeles. They were struck by Bain's performance and asked him to introduce them to Williams. They sent a letter, then arranged a phone call.

Williams had gone decades with little access to movies or television. "I didn't really know who Rob was," he recalled.

He came to know Rob and Michele as kind voices on the phone. They asked questions, offered advice and showed genuine interest in getting to know him. Only gradually did it sink in that Rob was the filmmaker behind some of Hollywood's most beloved movies, including "A Few Good Men" and "When Harry Met Sally..."

None of that mattered to Williams. What mattered, he said, was that they were listening.

"The more they learned," Williams said, "the more pissed off Rob became, and the more loving Michele became."

The Reiners' initial interest in helping him wasn't surprising. Rob had spent decades opposing the death penalty; Michele, whose mother survived Auschwitz, carried a lifelong sensitivity to dehumanization and state violence.

But what followed would go far beyond advocacy.

Rob signed on as an executive producer of "Lyrics From Lockdown." The show traveled across the country, into prisons and revered public spaces: Carnegie Hall. The Apollo Theater. Lincoln Center.

Each performance carried Williams' story further — and drew more people in.

In October 2018, Georgetown professor Marc Howard, founder of the university's Prisons and Justice Initiative, saw the show at the Kennedy Center.

"What was screaming out at me was, this man has something special," Howard said of Williams. "The letters that he's written, they hit home. They give me the chills."

Soon, Howard joined a tight circle of supporters who held regular Zoom calls about Williams' case. He found himself on screens with Rob and Michele Reiner.

What began with poetry had become a movement for freedom.

Williams' budding relationshipwith the Reiners was constrained by the barriers of prison life. Calls had to be scheduled. Letters could take weeks.

In 2021, a decision by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice narrowed that distance. It issued tablets to tens of thousands of incarcerated people.

Suddenly, he and the Reiners could email whenever they wanted. What was at first a cordial relationship quickly grew into something much deeper.

Williams described Rob as warm and curious, someone who asked questions that helped him make sense of his struggles. With his tablet, Williams could finally see some of Rob's movies.

Michele wrote most often, asking Williams how he was sleeping, whether he was eating, how he was holding up emotionally. She told him about her family, her childhood, her mother's survival of the Holocaust. Over time, Williams came to think of her as a mother figure who offered reassurance without judgment, who listened as much as she spoke.

"Michele was my heart," Williams said.

The Reiners folded Williams into their lives. They introduced him, virtually, to their children, Jake, Nick and Romy. They treated him less like a cause and more like kin.

"Rob and Michele didn't want credit for trying to help me," Williams said. "It was just because they loved me."

It's not just Williams saying that; it's the Reiners' children, too. "My parents spoke about him with such love," Romy wrote in a statement to NBC News this week. "He has taught me more about life and human compassion than anyone I've ever met."

Jake said in a statement that his parents "were fierce in doing everything in their power" to help Williams get out one day. "I know wherever they are," he wrote, "they are beaming with pride for him."

The kind of pride only a parent could understand.

A few years ago, Williams met a woman who'd heard about his case. They fell in love. But Williams wrestled with what should come next. Was it fair for him to marry someone while living in bondage?

"I had a fear of my chains becoming hers," Williams said.

He shared his concerns with Rob, who responded by asking Williams what he remembered after recently watching his classic fairytale comedy, "The Princess Bride."

"I learned it was about true love," Williams recalled telling him.

Rob replied, "Your story is about true love. If you don't fight for love, Nanon, what would you fight for?"

Encouraged by Rob, Williams decided to get married.

By then, Howard, the Georgetown professor, had traveled to Texas nearly a dozen times to visit and had also become like family. Williams knew that Howard had officiated weddings for friends, so he asked Howard to marry him and his wife, Tera.

"It was the most amazing moment I've ever had in my life," Williams said.

A year later, it seemed as if even better days might be possible.

In 2024, after a complaint filed by the University of Colorado Law School's Criminal Defense Clinic, the Texas Forensic Science Commission issueda 157-page reportofficially confirming that the ballistics testimony used to convict Williams was wrong. The Innocence Project joined the effort soon after.

Last year, Williams' legal teamrequested a new trialunder a Texas law enabling people to challenge convictions based on "junk science." The Harris County District Attorney's Office opposed the request, saying in a statement that it was "confident the conviction is warranted."

Rob, Michele and Romy all wrote letters on Williams' behalf.

"He is the most intuitive person I've ever known,"Michele wrote of Williams. "And although he says we have given him so much, he has given me so much more."

Rob's letter took Williams' breath away.

"I've led a high profile life for over fifty years,"Rob wrote. "And in that time I've met some very impressive and influential people. But if I'm being honest, apart from my father, no one has impressed me more and been more influential to me than Nanon Williams."

Apart from my father.

He was talking about Carl Reiner, the comedian, writer and director.

"It's overwhelming," Williams said. "I don't even know how to digest that."

More recently, Williams had been working on ideas to spread Rob's wisdom to the men around him. The plan was for Rob to visit the prison and screen his movie, "Stand By Me," then lead a discussion afterward.

Williams asked his sister to order rubber bracelets emblazoned with the movie's title. They were distributed throughout the prison. Men who had never heard of Rob Reiner began talking about what the title meant. What it means to stand by someone.

The screening was scheduled for December.

It never happened.

Last week, Williamssat in the visiting room at the W.F. Ramsey Unit, emotional and exhausted.

"I have not hardly been asleep," he said.

He's thought constantly about Rob and Michele. About the emails that arrived too late. About the "Stand By Me" screening that'll never happen. About Nick Reiner.

When news broke that Nick had been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder, Williams sat with the weight of it — and the irony.

"I was judged to be a killer, a monster beyond redemption," he said slowly. "The question I ask myself is, 'What would they want for their son?'"

He let the question hang in the air.

"What love and compassion and understanding would they want for him? If they would have it for me, why not him?"

He recalled the Reiners' love for their son as they tried to support him through his troubles; authoritieshave said Nickwas diagnosed with schizophrenia and sources familiar with his behavior say he had beenacting erratically before the murders. He hasn't entered a plea.

The parallels are staggering. A judge could soon issue an order on whether Williams' appeal can move forward, the same month Nick is expected to face arraignment. News reports suggested Nick could face the death penalty, the same sentence Williams once received.

"I understand being caged like an animal," Williams said. "I understand the pain that is to come. The reflection. Looking into the mirror, wondering if you harmed your own soul by the choices you've made."

Wearing a "Stand By Me" bracelet, he looked down at his hands — scarred knuckles, tattooed arms covered in numbers, each one representing a man who had been killed by the state.

"I have a responsibility to Nick," he said finally. "If I ever get out of here, how could I not try to do something to help him?"

Williams has spent 34 years thinking about culpability and compassion. Judgment and grace. What it means to be deemed irredeemable.

He learned to forgive people who killed his father, who took his mother away, who sent him to death row for a crime he says he didn't commit.

But it was his relationship with the Reiners that finally healed his anger.

"I feel like Michele stole it from me," he said softly.

The Reiners left him with something, too — a lesson Rob repeated again and again.

"The greatest stories," he had told Williams, "should be about love."

Even when they break your heart.

The "Last Song" actor recently walked the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, where her quick confrontation with paparazzi went viral.

Buzz:Miley Cyrus Tells Jimmy Kimmel Her Most Gag-Worthy Aversion — Then Realizes It's Sitting On His Desk

While posing for photos,video captured by Page Sixshows photographers yelling at Cyrus as she puts her sunglasses on.

"No, no, no ― no glasses!" one photographer shouts as Cyrus raises the glasses to her face.

"If you yell at me, I'd do the opposite," the singer said with a smile as she walked over to the photographer. "You know this! I've known you for 20 years. If you tell me not to put the glasses on, I put 'em on."

"Just go, 'Oh I love the glasses!' And then I'll take the glasses off," she added as she made her way back to posing.

People in the comments couldn't get enough of Cyrus' response.

"My sweet rebel baby!! Don't ever try to tell her what to do!!" one commenter wrote, while another simply added, "Periodt."

"She handled herself well! I wouldn't like them yelling at me, telling me what to do," another person added.

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Other fans were focused on just how great Cyrus looked in her suit.

"Miley could not look more cool than she does right here," one fan said.

The "Flowers" singer isn't the only star to recently go viral for speaking with photographers on the carpet.

"Stranger Things" actor Millie Bobby Brown made headlines back in November after shouting back at a paparazzi who told her to "smile."

"Smile? You smile!" the 21-year-old actorsnapped backas she immediately exited the carpet.

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On Jan. 6, the National Weather Service said a wintry mix will spread from the Great Lakes region up through New England, the latest round of ice and precipitation after recent days of similar conditions.

Ice and snow showers beginning Jan. 6 will continue through midweek from the upper Great Lakes through upstate New York and central New England,the weather service said. Millions of Americans were under winter weather advisories in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and New England states.

Next, a "larger, more disruptive" storm will bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and snow from the Plains to the East later in the week, according to AccuWeather meteorologists.

Here's what's in store:

When will this cold end?Thaw coming for eastern half of US

People gather on Washington Street as snow falls during a winter storm in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, December 26, 2025. New York City received around 4 inches of snow overnight. Airlines canceled 1,500 US flights during the peak holiday travel period Friday, with severe winter storm warnings and heavy snow forecast across parts of the Midwest and northeast.

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People gather on Washington Street as snow falls during a winter storm in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, December 26, 2025.New York City received around 4 inches of snow overnight. Airlines canceled 1,500 US flights during the peak holiday travel period Friday, with severe winter storm warnings and heavy snow forecast across parts of the Midwest and northeast.

Storm to bring wintry mix, icy conditions

Freezing rain with accumulations up to 0.1 to 0.2 inches on the ground could make for slick driving conditions from the upper Great Lakes through upstate New York and central New England, along with coastal Maine, the weather service said. The icy conditions will be accompanied by a chance of snow showers in the Northeast, with snow lingering through midweek.

The highest snowfall accumulations will be found in the mountains of interior New England, but lighter snowfall will linger in the region through Jan. 7, according to the weather service. Precipitation amounts could total between 1 and 6 inches, AccuWeather reported.

"Snow, sleet and freezing rain will affect travel from Minnesota to New England through midweek," AccuWeather said.

Second round of stormy weather to impact dozens of states

Later in the week, a powerful storm coming from the western part of the country will head eastward, spreading rain, thunderstorms and snow over dozens of states, AccuWeather reported. It will spread from Texas up through the Great Lakes on Jan. 8 and 9.

The second storm system will deliver wintry conditions to the Plains and Midwest, and a chance of severe thunderstorms in the Ozarks and Mississippi Valley, according to AccuWeather. States from Texas and Oklahoma through Tennessee and Kentucky could see severe thunderstorms that may bring hail and damaging winds later in the week, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tyler Roys said.

"This coast-to-coast storm is expected to bring snow or a wintry mix from parts of Arizona and New Mexico through the Great Lakes and into northern New England," Roys said, adding that travelers should be prepared for slippery and hazardous road conditions.

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