ELYSIAN FIELDS, Tx. - Three East Texas communities are fighting to protect their water from possible contamination from an oil and gas waste disposal site.

A sprawling winter storm that is pushing slowly across the United States will bring a risk of severe weather and excessive rainfall to a large part of the south-central United States from Wednesday into Friday. Isolated thunderstorms, flooding rains and damaging winds are all possible in an area between East Texas and western Kentucky.

East Texas A&M will try to stop its three-game home losing streak when the East Texas A&M Lions host SE Louisiana.

COMMERCE, Texas (AP) Sam Hines Jr.'s 23 points helped SE Louisiana defeat East Texas A&M 76-68 on Monday.

Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.

Impacts will begin in east Texas by Monday night. Ice and snow could contribute to power outages amid freezing temperatures.

Interstate 10 reopened to westbound traffic from I-49 in Lafayette to the Texas border, the Department of Transportation and Development announced mid-afternoon Wednesday. The update comes after a historic winter storm brought several inches of snow to the gulf coast and shut down most of I-10 between Texas and Mississippi.

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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lions -7; over/under is 137.5 BOTTOM LINE: East Texas A&M plays SE Louisiana looking to break its three-game home slide. The East Texas A&M Lions are 2-5 in home games.

COMMERCE, Texas (AP) — Sam Hines Jr.'s 23 points helped SE Louisiana defeat East Texas A&M 76-68 on Monday. Hines also added seven rebounds for the Lions (11-8, 5-3 Southland Conference).

SE Louisiana Lions (10-8, 4-3 Southland) at East Texas A&M Lions (2-16, 0-7 Southland) Commerce, Texas; Monday, 2 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lions -7; over/under is 137.5 BOTTOM LINE ...

Elyzee 1-6 3-4 5, Rowbury 3-8 11-12 17, Buckley 7-13 5-6 19, Hines 9-16 5-5 23, Lawrence 1-5 0-0 2, Paez 2-5 2-2 8, Burton 0-3 0-0 0, Essahaty 1-2 0-0 2, Tut 0-0 0-0 0, Edison 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-58 26-29 76.