The story

A pre-winter blend of snow, sleet and freezing rain cut visibility and iced over highways from the Great Lakes to New England, dumping up to a foot-and-a-half of snow, stranding air and road travelers and causing an airliner to skid off a runway.

School districts across the region -- including Michigan's largest, in Detroit -- canceled Monday classes. A winter storm warning remained in effect Monday in northern Maine, where visibility was cut by snow blown by winds gusting to 35 mph.

Slippery roads caused by the big storm were blamed for four weekend deaths in Indiana, two in Michigan and one each in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the Canadian Maritime province of Nova Scotia. Read full article »

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