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Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise Thursday from heavy storms that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths.

Although the first day of spring brought much-needed sunshine Thursday to Ohio and other states, authorities warned that many rivers would crest well above flood stage in the next several days.

The death toll rose to at least 14 with the death of a woman whose car was swept away by floodwaters near the southwest Ohio city of Wilmington on Wednesday. The woman had clung to a tree for hours before she was rescued but died a short time later at a hospital. Read full article »

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