AP Top News at 2:49 p.m. EST

AP Top News at 2:49 p.m. EST

Storm rakes East; more than 1 million in the dark

HAMPTON, N.H. — A persistent winter storm parked itself Friday over the Northeast, bringing hurricane-force winds, flooding and more than 2 feet of snow as it cut power to more than a million homes and businesses. Schools were canceled as far west as Cleveland and roads closed as far south as West Virginia as the slow-moving storm spent a second day parked over the region.

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