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ARIZONA

Fleeing truck crashes, killing 6

PHOENIX — Police yesterday were still trying to determine who was driving a stolen truck loaded with illegal immigrants that smashed into other vehicles and rolled over, killing six persons and injuring 15, some critically.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials questioned a man they had thought was the driver, but he turned out to be a passenger, said Arizona Department of Public Safety Sgt. Brian Preston.

Investigators think the pickup truck was traveling at about 90 mph when it went out of control at an intersection near Fort Huachuca, an Army post in southeastern Arizona.

Five persons died at the scene of the 11-car crash Saturday, and one died at a hospital. Of the 15 injured, one was on life support and six were in critical but stable condition, Sgt. Preston said.

NORTH DAKOTA

Re-enactors move into state

MANDAN — A group retracing the steps of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark moved into North Dakota at the end of the week, finding the weather nearly as much of a challenge as the explorers had 200 years ago.

The group, dressed for the weather in wool and buckskin, camped along the Missouri River south of Mandan with temperatures of about 40 degrees and a brisk north wind that made the air seem colder.

Scott Mandrell, an Alton, Ill., teacher who portrayed Lewis, said the weather conditions resembled those that greeted the two men during the 1804-05 winter as they made their way west.

FLORIDA

Three rescued from burning boat

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