Mississippi sending 135 snowplows to help clear ice and snow from traffic-clogged highways

Mississippi officials said they were sending 135 snowplows Wednesday to clear ice and snow from two interstate highways where frozen conditions caused huge traffic jams.

Emergency officials said they were rushing supplies to drivers stalled along ice-covered stretches of Interstates 55 and 22 in northern Mississippi, an area still reeling from a weekend winter storm that blasted parts of the South and the Northeast with ice and snow.

Helping stranded drivers and moving stalled vehicles “remains a top priority,“ Mississippi Gov.