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Authorities identified the woman as Morgan Crayton. She was 31 years old.
Police said Crayton was in her yard in the 100 block of Powhatan Parkway with several dogs on Sunday evening when her own dog, a 92-pound pit bull, attacked her.
Bennington police were called to Nail Street near North Ralls Street Saturday following an attack from two pit bulls and a mutt.
"Whenever me and my other officer arrived on scene, it was gory, horrific. The worst I've ever seen," said Bennington Police Chief James Heil.
Alan Bruce was flown to a Plano hospital in critical condition. He died just before 11 a.m. Monday.
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After numerous snowfall warnings were issued across the prairies for this past weekend, Old Man Winter showed up with a vengeance.
According to the Weather Network, blizzard-like conditions brought the white stuff to southern Alberta and across southern Saskatchewan all through the weekend, with the worst of it touching down on Sunday.
So just how much snow fell, you ask?
In Waterton National Park, a total of 95 cm of snowfall was recorded. At Chain Lakes, it was 54 cm. Even the City of Lethbridge saw snowfall amounts of up to 55 cm.
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© Sachin Kumar/AFP/Getty ImagesA waterlogged ward in a hospital in Patna, capital of Bihar, after vast areas of the state were inundated by delayed monsoon rains.
The bulk of the fatalities were reported in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 111 are believed to have died in the floods - many by drowning or in building collapses - while several dozen more lost their lives in Bihar, India Today reports. The death toll continues to climb as the rains persist.
Dubbed the "Hikka cyclone," the storm is India's largest monsoon since 1994, and has produced record-breaking rainfall, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said - with the city of Mumbai seeing more precipitation than it had in 61 seasons prior.
© Aaron RadomskyLight snow fell over Sani Pass, between KZN and Lesotho, on Monday.
The SA Weather Service (Saws) told TimesLIVE that the southern part of the mountain range received light snow on Monday.
"We haven't seen anything above 2cm. We have on and off snowfall the entire day for Lesotho and the southern Drakensberg," said Wayne Venter, a Saws forecaster.
"It looks like some good snowfall in the northern and northeast Drakensberg, on the KwaZulu-Natal border side."
September snow in Montana
A winter storm is blowing through parts of the region this weekend, just days after the start of fall.
So far, parts of Montana have received almost two feet of snow. Browning was blanketed by 23 inches and East Glacier Park by 21.
The National Weather Service's winter storm warning for portions of north central Montana is in effect until Monday morning. CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera said in that time, another one to two feet of snow may fall.
Great Falls, Montana got a preliminary 9.7 inches of snow Saturday, which will set a new daily snowfall record. That number would beat the previous record in 1954 by 3.6 inches.
Comment: Update: WeatherNation reports:
A powerful early season winter storm continues to impact the Northern Rockies. Several locations have already picked up over a foot of snow! Browning, MT has been buried under almost three and a half feet of snow since Friday. That's over two-thirds of their average annual snowfall....and it's still snowing.Snow will continue into Monday morning. This snow is wet which means it is also heavy. This puts a strain on trees and power lines. Tree damage and power outages are still likely this evening. Travel will remain hazardous through the night and early Monday. If possible, stay home until the storm settles late-morning Monday.
Nancy Feakes was kind enough to share this picture of her neighbor's house completely covered in snow in East Glacier. This storm just will not quit! #mtwx #winterstorm pic.twitter.com/YivK22O4aR
— Brady Brewster - NBC Montana (@BradyNBCMT) September 29, 2019
See in addition: Now snowing heavily in 8 states and 5 provinces in North America - in September
Update: USA TODAY reports on September 30th:
Kids in Browning, Montana, were gifted with that rare September snow day Monday after a historically early winter storm pounding parts of the West dumped four feet of snow on the town in the heart of the Blackfeet Reservation.
Barely a week after the end of summer, snow swept across parts of California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. The National Weather Service said temperatures in some areas were dropping as much as 30 degrees below normal.
A combination of factors contributed to the wintry blast, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.
"A storm from the Pacific Ocean, a fresh injection of cold air from northern Canada, moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and a northeast-ascending flow that squeezed extra moisture from the atmosphere produced the amazing snowfall," Sosnowski said.
Montana got the worst of it, and Gov. Steve Bullock declared a winter storm emergency. Great Falls, which normally sees less than 2 inches of snow in September, was blasted with a two-day snow total of 19.3 inches - the second-highest two-day snow total ever for any time of year.
Near-record cold was forecast for Monday night.
Dupuyer, 40 miles southeast of Browning, saw 37 inches of snow. Browning took the dubious top honors, although AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dan Pydynowski told USA TODAY less populated areas doubtlessly were slammed with more than 4 feet, but it just won't ever be measured.
"Browning Schools has cancelled all classes for tomorrow 9/30/19 to dig out from the storm," the school tweeted Sunday. It was not immediately clear whether one day of digging would be enough.
Snow drifts as high as 7 feet were reported. Sosnowski also warned that unseasonably cold conditions will delay snowmelt in some areas and halt the growing season for some farmers. The hard freeze could bring added pain to farmers already dealing snow-covered fields, he said.Snowbanks were so high in some areas of Montana they reached the roofs of houses.Sosnowski said September snow in parts of the U.S. isn't that unusual, but the amount of snow at relatively low elevations is. The cold was also a surprising feature.
"Many daily record low maximum temperature records are possible through Monday, especially across the Northern Great Basin, Rockies and Northern California," the weather service said.
More than a foot of snow fell in parts of northeastern Washington. Spokane got the city's first recorded September snow since 1926.
The National Weather Service said Sunday was a record-breaking day in Oregon and Washington. For some locations, it was the coldest September day since 1948.
Portland International Airport tied its coldest September high temperature on Sunday, matching a temperature from 1948. The winter of 1948-49 was one of the coldest on record for the Portland area - and the airport had 22 inches of snow that winter.
"Correlation or coincidence...?" tweeted the National Weather Service office in Portland. "Probably coincidence, but I guess we'll find out."
© Selam Nahom NoahSnowfall in Kiruna on Monday.
In Jukkasjärvi, Norrbotten, 14 centimetres of snow were measured on Monday morning after overnight snowfall. A class-one weather warning (the lowest level on a three-point scale) was still in place in the afternoon after first being issued by meteorological institute SMHI on Sunday.
Kiruna resident Selam Nahom Noah shared photos and videos of the wintery weather on The Local's Facebook group Living in Sweden.
Several areas of the rest of the country were affected by a low pressure area which led to cloudy weather and some rainfall. Temperatures were up to 15C in southernmost Sweden and single digits in the north, with some parts of the northern mountain ranges dropping into minus figures.
Comment: Flake news: Parts of Montana hit by winter storm dumping 4 FEET of snow!! Drifts of 7 FEET reported (UPDATE)