2nd Death Blamed On Arctic Blast In The South

A second death is being blamed on the winter blast that's slamming the Southeast with several inches of snow and sleet.

The deaths were both in northern Louisiana, where icy weather led to dangerous driving conditions.

Trooper Mark Dennis says that in Lincoln Parish, a 62-year-old woman died Sunday evening after a car she was riding ran off a state highway and struck a tree. Guadalupe Marroquin died at a Ruston hospital a short time later. Dennis says troopers reported icy roads in the area at the time.

State police also say a woman died Sunday in a single-vehicle crash on an ice covered highway. trooper Cordell Williams says Kaneshia Logan, 30, died when her SUV slid down an embankment on Interstate 20 and hit a tree.