Bitter Arctic air and a sprawling winter storm have plunged a huge swath of the country into life-threatening cold, with ...
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On today's date: The Children's Blizzard of 1888

A fast-moving storm system turned a mild winter day into a tragedy. Here's why the timing made all the difference.
A howling blizzard 134 years ago killed an estimated 230 people, many of them children — and 40 to 100 of those deaths ...