ST. LOUIS — For the first time in more than five weeks, the Mississippi River has dropped low enough to stop flowing through a gap in a blown-up levee in southeast Missouri.
Mississippi River flooding slows at Birds Point levee
Thursday, June 9, 2011 | 2:19 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:03 p.m. CDT, Thursday, June 9, 2011
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