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Cold snap drives homeless to warm shelters across regions
In a nationwide cold snap homeless people sought refuge in shelters from the Midwest to New England. Dick Sanford and Mary Copeland aided one man at a Minneapolis day shelter as temperatures plunged with record lows. Multiple deaths were reported in Indiana Washington and New York amid the extreme weather.
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Minneapolis
Dick Sandford
Sandford
Mary ‘Jo Copeland
Midwest
New England
Copeland
Sharing & Caring Hands
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mason City
Iowa
Caribou
Maine
Alaska
Washington, D.C
National
New York City
Mary Brosnahan
Coalition For the Homeless
Fall River
Mass
Philadelphia
Tony Williams
Indiana
Washington State
Toledo
Ohio