GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Crews scrambled to make repairs Wednesday near the busiest Mississippi River lock shut down because of damage blamed partly on the summer drought, snarling hundreds of barges and tugboats in a backlog that was growing worse by the hour.
UPDATE: Barge traffic halted near Mississippi River lock
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | 6:19 p.m. CDT
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