SIKESTON — The Army Corps of Engineers plans to go ahead with plans to blast open an earthen levee in Missouri in a desperate bid to protect the Illinois town of Cairo from the raging Mississippi River.
Army Corps decides to blow up Missouri levee
Monday, May 2, 2011 | 5:39 p.m. CDT;
updated 10:46 p.m. CDT, Monday, May 2, 2011
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