CAPE GIRARDEAU — Southeast Missouri is in the grip of a severe to extreme drought, as scorching temperatures and no rain in August baked crops in the field, burned pastures and dried up cattle watering holes.
Missouri's Bootheel towns hardest hit by drought
Sunday, September 2, 2007 | 10:20 p.m. CDT;
updated 8:55 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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