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Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Engineers check on reconstruction following floods last year
• McCaskill targets Republican opponents in TV ads
• Sister company of Missouri lead producer criticized for pollution in Peru
  

The Army Corps of Engineers visited Cairo, Illinois on yesterday to check on reconstruction projects following last year’s devastating floods. The Corps will invest more than $100 million toward flood protection systems at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Twenty science teachers from six different states visited New Madrid, Missouri today to learn more about that town's claim to fame: earthquakes.

Restoring the Birds Point-New Madrid Levee to its original height may take a little more time.