LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest:

The search at a northern Oklahoma lake for a missing country music singer from Arkansas has been suspended for the night. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says it called off the search for 29-year-old Craig Strickland because of darkness. Strickland is the lead singer of the Arkansas-based country-rock band Backroad Anthem. He disappeared during severe storms last Sunday while on a duck- hunting trip.

A rural southern Illinois woman says she and her husband will never return to their flood-threatened home. Vella Friedman’s family is among more than 100 Illinois families who agreed to sell their homes to the government after 2011 flooding but are still waiting for the buyout money. The funds are tied up because Illinois’ Republican governor and Democratic-controlled Legislature are at odds over the state budget.