 The further north path that storm takes, the more likely it is that we will have some sort of impact to the mainland United States. That would most likely be the western portion of the Gulf of Mexico. The judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked in the case of a Massachusetts woman accused of hitting her police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm. Karen Reed's attorney, Alan Jackson, claims she was framed. This is what it looks like.