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Joe Cronin

  ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Missouri State Water Patrol has recovered the body of a man in the Missouri River.

  Joseph Cronin, from the St. Louis suburb Creve Coeur was recovered around 7:30 this morning.

  He had disappeared Monday while swimming.

  The St. Charles County Sheriff's Department says the body was found about three-quarters of a mile downriver from where Cronin had gone swimming.

  He and a friend had been biking and fishing in woods.

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