At least 14 deaths in Tennessee have been linked to a storm system that blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting as bitterly cold weather kept an icy grip Thursday on a swath of the U.S. from Oregon to the Northeast.
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Tennessee officials updated the state's death toll at midweek after the storm dropped more than 9 inches of snow since Sunday in parts of Nashville, where only about half that amount falls in a given year.