LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Gov. Mike Beebe says two deaths in Little Rock have pushed the death toll from violent weather in Arkansas to seven.
Little Rock police spokesman Terry Hastings says a tree fell on a Little Rock home, killing an 8-year-old boy and his mother who had climbed into bed with him as a severe storm moved through the city overnight.
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