Duke said he had been adopted at birth, and he recently returned to Moscow after living for a few years in the Midwest.
The storm system driving out of the midwest brought snow to Ohio on Sunday and was expected to ultimately spread from the nation's capital to Maine for a "crippling and potentially historic blizzard", the NWS said.
Six midwest states – North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri – were dealing with significant flooding and there were pockets in some other states.
Turkey eaters everywhere can rest easy: experts say the outbreak of bird flu in the midwest that has claimed the lives of 5.6 million turkeys is not likely to lead to a shortage come November.
The Des Moines Register credited O'Hern with putting together "the largest field effort ever in a midterm election" for the Iowa Democratic party in 2014 and he also oversaw campaign efforts in the midwest for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2012.
Barrie Rutter's Northern Broadsides has long been producing Shakespeare using northern actors who speak in their natural voices, and at Nottingham Playhouse David Farr recently directed an innovative The Taming of the Shrew set in the American midwest in the 1950s.
In 1914 the poet Carl Sandburg called Chicago "hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat," when the city's stockyards and factories were the economic engine – and human cesspool – of the entire midwest.
It's more evocative of the American midwest - a delicate mixture of open vowels and reluctant consonants, nearer Tom Hanks than Tom Cobley.
The current cold snap sweeping the midwest and east coast has packed tens of thousands into emergency housing in small towns and major cities alike.
Demetrius Jackson scored 20 points and the third-seeded Irish dominated Wichita State 81-70 in the Midwest regional semi-finals to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time in 36 years.
Ali Catterall Mad Men reaches its penultimate episode and its characters are in a state of flux, with Joan having left McCann Erickson, Peggy and Roger uncertain of their futures there, and Don absconding from the office to enjoy the scenery of the Midwest.
