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Missouri sues to close popular recreation cove

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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley's office announced yesterday it filed suit against the owners of the Offsets, a popular recreation cove south of St. Louis.

Located 70 miles south of St. Louis in Fredericktown, the site is a “public nuisance” and “poses an unlawful risk to public safety," Hawley alleges.

At the flooded former quarry used as a swimming hole, two people died this month.

Read more from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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