Ice Storm Claims Lives

(AP)  A 12-year-old Long Prairie girl was killed in a one vehicle accident yesterday morning in Stearns County. 

She was a passenger in a vehicle that appears to have been caught up in the ice storm Sunday. 

The girl was not wearing a seat belt when the truck she was in lost control on an icy road about 10 a.m.  She was thrown from the vehicle and died a short time later at a Melrose area hospital. 

A four vehicle accident near Litchfield killed a 44-year-old Litchfield woman Saturday night.