1.   A light snowfall was just beginning, and Jasper looked like wonder itself with snowflakes in his hair.

2.   The comptroller report was released Thursday as a rare snowfall began blanketing the turbulent Holy City in an otherworldly quiet.

3.   But then the steady snowfall began to defeat worker efforts to remove it.

4.   Heavy snowfall began late Friday, which could even the odds in the downhill.

5.   Steady, heavy snow covered central and northeastern Kansas, southeastern Nebraska and northwestern Missouri, while snowfall also began to increase over New York state.

6.   The snowfall began during the night and stopped by midmorning.

7.   The federal government announced before dawn that it would shut down for the day after steady snowfalls began in the early hours.

8.   The federal government shut down for the fourth day this week, schools were closed and businesses were shuttered as steady snowfalls began in the early hours.