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LITTLE ROCK (AP) State emergency management officials say an Atkins woman has died from injuries she suffered during the Feb. 5 tornado outbreak, bringing the state's death toll from the storms to 14.
Dorothy Vieira, 78, died Saturday at Little Rock's Baptist Health Medical Center. The storm, the night of the state's presidential primary, included two different tornadoes that touched down.
Thirteen people were killed along the first tornado's 120-mile path the most Arkansas fatalities from a single storm since 1997. Statewide, at least 133 people were injured. A second tornado killed a woman in Gassville.
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