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Four St. Paul firefighters have been hurt while battling a house fire on St. Alban’s Street.

National Geographic photographer Richard Olsenius says the fire that destroyed the Swany White flour mill Tuesday night is more than just the loss of another building or business in just another quiet town in the middle of just another prairie state.

Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal accidents, shuttered highways in five states and may have caused a deadly plane crash, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not impossible across the region.

Hotels were filling up quickly along major roadways from eastern New Mexico to Kansas, and nearly 100 rescue calls came in from motorists in the Texas Panhandle.

The Undergraduate Student Services determined a key liaison officer is needed for communication between the student government and food services to ease the transition from Murray-Herrick Campus Center to the new Anderson Student Center.