Drought's grip unrelenting across Midwest

Thursday, December 20, 2012 | 9:38 a.m. CST; updated 3:44 p.m. CST, Thursday, December 20, 2012

ST. LOUIS — The worst U.S. drought in decades continues its iron-fisted grip across much of the nation's key farming states, though some relief could come from the first major snowstorm of the season trekking eastward across the Midwest.

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