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National Briefing | Plains: North Dakota: Interstates Reopened

Mar. 12, 2009
Highway crews carved through 10-foot snowdrifts from a blizzard as hundreds of stalled motorists waited in bitter cold. The storm was linked to at least four deaths. Interstate 29 was reopened from the Canadian border across North Dakota to Watertown, S.D., a distance of about 280 miles, highway...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler