Region's utilities work to get the lights back on with mixed success
Friday, January 30, 2009
The ice storm that raged through Southeast Missouri earlier in the week left more than 88,000 still without power throughout the region Friday as utility workers struggled to keep up with new outages caused by rapidly melting ice.
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