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Widespread Western Snow Brings Dazzling Vistas And Dangerous Roads

School kids in Seattle and Salt Lake City celebrated a rare snow day. But dozens of accidents were reported. A deputy investigating an accident in Utah was hit by an out-of-control tractor-trailer.

A vast system that brought snow and cold to normally milder cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Salt Lake City and even Las Vegas was moving eastward into the central part of the country on Wednesday. The country's midsection from New Mexico to Michigan was blanketed in frozen precipitation. The

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