“Pacific got pretty lucky,” said Steve Brune, the town's building commissioner, as he watched the waters begin to recede. Roads would likely be reopening soon.
Attorneys representing the mother of Isaiah Hammett argued during trial this week that the officers violated Hammett's civil rights when they burst into the home on South Kingshighway without knocking.
"That is a pretty historical thing," MoDOT's interim director, Ed Hassinger, said at a news conference after MoDOT's governing board approved a team of four companies for the work.
Drinking water around last week's battery plant fire in Fredericktown, Missouri, is not contaminated, but air monitoring stations have detected occasional elevated levels of pollutants. Fish were also killed.