Southeast Missouri property owners wait for word on buyouts after March, April floods

Monday, June 30, 2008

More than 120 property owners in Wayne, Ripley and Reynolds counties in Missouri are in limbo as they wait to find out if their flood-damaged homes will be purchased through a federal buyout program at a combined cost of nearly $5 million.

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