Fair ~ 54°F   River stage: 35.66 Falling Sunday, November 8, 2009

Holding on to a Birthright Casey Johnston talked with her three children in their Jackson home Friday after she got off work at NARS in Cape Girardeau. Johnston balances her full-time job with 11-month-old Trinity Beck, left, Gabriel Fuller, 3, and Nikki Fuller, 5. (Kit Doyle)