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Permit banned travel under overpass struck by heavy equipment in deadly Minnesota Drive collision
Law enforcement examine the scene of a deadly car incident on Minnesota Generate on Tuesday in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) The company hauling major products that killed a close by driver soon after hanging a Minnesota Travel overpass Tuesday was operating less than a condition allow that banned journey underneath any composition decrease than 15 ft. The Hillcrest Generate bridge the machinery hit was 14 toes, 3 inches superior, state officers say. The products concerned in the collision was a Caterpillar 420F backhoe with an excavator arm, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Amenities. The Municipality of Anchorage owns the tools. Vulcan Towing was transporting it.…
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Snow, travel troubles linger into third day across much of Minnesota
Updated: 1:09 p.m. Snow that started Tuesday, and lasted all day Wednesday, kept falling overnight and into Thursday across a wide swath of southern and eastern Minnesota. The seemingly never-ending winter storm meant a third day of shoveling, travel headaches and school disruptions across the region — and a third day of building up the snowpack for skiing, snowmobiling, sledding and other winter activities. The official storm total at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stands at 15.0 inches — making it the 14th-greatest snowfall on record in the Twin Cities. The snow total so far this winter at MSP now is 48.1 inches — nearly 28 inches above normal. Light snow…