Ohio River News
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A round of destructive weather is expected to strike an area from Illinois to Texas next week, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center.
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Vinci SA, Europe’s biggest builder, said first-quarter sales rose 3.4 percent as acquisitions and new contracts offset a construction slowdown in some markets.
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The Ohio River is at record heights even as it has begun to fall in Cairo, Illinois, and shipping in the area is drifting to a stop, according to federal officials.
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Not every economic-development program works out. On a late April morning in 1801, most of Cincinnati’s thousand citizens lined the banks of the Ohio River, eager to watch one of the wonders of the age. A great new sailing ship, St. Clair, was passing downriver from Marietta for its maiden voyage on the high seas.
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Drought may persist from California to Texas while improving slightly in the Great Plains as temperatures soar above normal across most of the U.S. from April through June, the Climate Prediction Center said.
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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said he’s asking a state court to convene a grand jury to consider evidence of broader complicity in the sexual assault of a teenage girl by two high-school football players last year.
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The Ohio River Valley and the northern U.S. will probably receive more rain than normal through May 13, according to the U.S. Climate Prediction Center .
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In typical times, corn delivered to St. Louis is loaded onto barges, flowing south down the Mississippi River. With drought-starved river levels near historic lows, these aren’t typical times.
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Pastor Rick Towe shuns politicking from the pulpit, avoiding any mention of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during a recent Sunday sermon at the small Pentecostal church in the southeastern Ohio River town of Kanauga. Yet the battle for the White House always seems to find him.
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Gulf Coast and Midwest spot gasoline gained as a slowdown in barge traffic because of high water levels on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers threatened to disrupt oil and petroleum-product shipments.
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