Plainly, it’s cold in Maine, Minn., Mont.
PORTLAND, Maine — Temperatures dropped to breathtaking levels, well below zero, in extreme northern sections of Maine early Monday.
Thermometers registered 34 degrees Fahrenheit below zero at Van Buren, 27 below at Presque Isle and 26 below at Allagash, the National Weather Service reported.
In the northern Rockies, Butte, Mont., registered 32 below at 8 a.m. — with a wind chill of minus 47, the weather service said.
Another of the nation’s usual cold spots, International Falls, Minn., managed only 16.1 below zero, but even after the sun came up its temperature of 14 below combined with 6 mph wind for a wind chill of 29 below zero, according to a Weather Service website.
Planes’ collision leaves lots of questions
CORONA, Calif. — Authorities were trying Monday to learn why two small planes collided over a row of businesses, dropping a macabre shower of debris and body parts and killing someone inside an auto dealership when one of the aircraft punctured the roof.
All four people aboard the two aircraft also were killed in Sunday’s crash.
“There were bodies falling out of the sky,” witness Hector Hernandez told KCBS-TV. “One of them crashed into the top of a Ford Mustang, and another one fell not too far behind . . . on the parking lot.”
Witnesses told authorities that one of the planes slammed into the other.
Authorities haven’t released the planes’ origins or destinations.
Avalanche kills student skiing in backcountry
BIG SKY, Mont. — An avalanche killed a college student on a backcountry ski trip, officials said Monday.
The avalanche Sunday swept Tyler Stetson, in his 20s, into trees, and he was dead when searchers found him within 10 minutes, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Department said. Stetson was a junior at Montana State University in Bozeman.
Winning lottery ticket confiscated
ELLSWORTH, Maine — His lottery ticket was a $1,000 winner, but police have seized it saying it was bought with proceeds from an illegal drug sale. Michael David sold four 10-milligram methadone pills for $15 each last week, Police Chief John Deleo said. He then went to a convenience store and bought lottery tickets and other merchandise. He later was busted.
“I guess it will be up to a judge to decide, but it’s in our possession right now as proceeds from a drug transaction,” Deleo said of the winning ticket.
