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DES MOINES (AP) — Authorities say seven people died — including two teenage sisters — on Iowa roads as a winter storm swept the state Monday, leading to dozens of crashes and a 50- to 70-car pileup near Ames.

GEORGE, Iowa -- A Northwest Iowa community rallied to support a Lyon County family that lost their 10-year-old daughter in a house fire.

WATERLOO – A crash involving a school bus, grain truck and other vehicles briefly shut down a section of southbound Washington Street on Wednesday morning.

CEDAR FALLS — The University of Northern Iowa’s Office of Undergraduate Studies and First-Year Cornerstone Program will host writer, performer and video maker Dylan Marron at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 at Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center.

CLIVE — A Waterloo woman asked a store clerk to choose a scratch ticket for her, and that ticket ended up winning $25,000.

Jazz band clinic slated for Friday

CEDAR FALLS -- Public safety officials are still trying to determine the cause of a fire which destroyed a home Monday night near Beaver Hills Country Club.

JANESVILLE — Janesville firefighters are extinguishing a chimney fire at a rural home.

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WATERLOO — Winter turned deadly Monday as snow caused traffic crashes across the state, including a 70-vehicle pileup near Ames that killed one.