Missouri teen completes half of solo river trip

Monday, August 4, 2014

ST. LOUIS -- James Welborn, a recent Webb City High School graduate, has reached the halfway point of his solo canoe trip down the Mississippi River -- just in time to celebrate his 19th birthday with family.

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