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powerful system buffeted several states, stranding drivers in Nevada, forcing the postponement of sports games in Arizona, causing water rescues in California, and leading to the deaths of four people.
• The system was expected to head east and reach the opposite coast by the middle of next week, but not before hitting the Southwest again with rain, snow and wind, forecasters said.
• Parts of northern New Mexico have already received a dusting of snow, but forecasters say the latest storm to bear down on the state is far from over. The National Weather Service in Albuquerque said the brunt of the storm is expected to cross into New Mexico on Saturday, bringing widespread snow through the rest of the weekend, frigid temps and gusty winds.
• The fierce weather was linked to three deaths in California. Officials and news reports said the death of a person Thursday near downed power lines and a tree was being investigated in Oakland, another person died in Oakland after the man crashed into a fallen tree while apparently trying to avoid debris, and a 52-year-old woman died in Yuba County when a tree fell on the parked car in which she was sitting.
• Firefighters in Tucson, Ariz., Friday recovered the body of a man who was swept away by high water in the Santa Cruz River.
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To ambitious gang of GOP governors, 2014 elections may be springboard to bigger things in 2016
• SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- For an ambitious group of Republican governors, next year's elections could be a springboard to bigger things in 2016.
• Just don't talk about the White House -- yet.
• The annual Republican Governors Association meeting this week included a bullish outlook for a party that will defend 22 seats in 2014.
• Bashing Washington dysfunction at every turn, the governors offered up their can-do records -- and themselves -- as a model for a party looking to return to power.
• As if to emphasize the point, George W. Bush swooped in for a surprise lunch, sharing stories from his time as Texas governor and as president. It was lost on no one that a member of their club was the last Republican to win the White House.
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