North Dakota state senator, wife and two children die in Utah plane crash

Doug Larsen and family killed shortly after taking off from Canyonlands airfield, about 15 miles north of Moab

A state senator from North Dakota, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed in Utah, a senate leader said Monday.

Doug Larsen's death was confirmed on Monday in an email that the Republican state senate majority leader David Hogue sent to his fellow senators and was obtained by the Associated Press.