Bloomfield Road to reopen to traffic today
A stretch of Bloomfield Road that has been closed nearly six months for a $1.25 million road-widening project -- one month longer than intended -- is scheduled to reopen to traffic today. The news...
View ArticleJackson's Santa Express train sells out for season
Jackson's Santa Express was stranded at the station last year, but tickets for rides with St. Nick on the antique tourist train are sold out this Christmas. Harriet Drusch, a volunteer board member...
View ArticleSister reclaims laughter in sold-out River Campus show
Although holiday spirit filled a packed Bedell Performance Hall Sunday night, no one was safe from one devout nun's jabs. For a second straight year, actress Kimberly Richards reprised her role of...
View ArticleOfficials say former Dent County deputy shot ex-wife, boyfriend
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A former rural Missouri sheriff's deputy is suspected of killing his ex-wife and her new boyfriend before leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended with a shootout at...
View ArticleAnalysis: Candidates lacking for some offices in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan is running for Congress again next year. The St. Louis Democrat assures people of that. But exactly in which district Carnahan will run remains to be...
View ArticleVolunteers at Cape center pack 632,000 meals for starving children in Haiti
Children 12 and under made up three-quarters of the 2,600 volunteers who flocked into the Shawnee Park Center on West End Boulevard this weekend to prepare meal packets to feed starving children in...
View ArticleNorma Blattner
Norma Philamine Louise Kies Blattner, 86, of Cape Girardeau died with grace and peace Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, in her home in the presence of her five children. She was born July 5, 1925, at Cape...
View ArticleDemolition begins on tornado-torn Joplin schools
JOPLIN, Mo. -- Demolition has begun on one of several Joplin schools destroyed by the May 22 tornado, bringing a chapter of the city's history to a close. The Joplin Globe reported work started...
View ArticleDismal Rams will play Seattle on national TV
St. Louis battles both injuries and the Seahawks
View ArticleCharleston gets top seed for Christmas tournament
The Blue Jays will be seeking their record 16th title
View ArticleSoutheast Missouri State men's basketball team must find consistency
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team has displayed flashes of brilliance and bumbling in fairly equal doses so far this season. That's probably been the most maddening thing for...
View ArticleToday in History
Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 17, the 351st day of 2011. There are 14 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio,...
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2011. There are 11 days left in the year. The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 20, 1860, South...
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Today is Saturday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2011. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 24, 1814, the War of 1812 officially ended as...
View ArticleOut of the past 12/17/11
The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department's report on projected transportation needs for the next 15 years includes only two major projects in this immediate area: A new Mississippi River...
View ArticleRussell Ramsey
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Russell Ramsey, son of the late Lloyd Ramsey and Alveda Baker Russell, was born Oct. 25, 1946, in Marble Hill and passed away at his farm Dec. 10, 2011, at the age of 65. He had...
View ArticleBarbara Dowdy-Trabke
NEW HAMBURG, Mo. -- Barbara Ann Dowdy-Trabke passed away Dec. 13 in Reno, Nev., from complications of breast cancer. She was born Barbara Ann Kluesner on the family farm in New Hamburg on Nov. 17,...
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Today is Friday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2011. There is one day left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 30, 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first "sit-down" strike at...
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2011. There are four days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 27, 1968, Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe, nighttime...
View ArticleEgypt's ruling military lashes out at protesters
CAIRO -- Egypt's ruling military sought to discredit the pro-democracy movement Monday, portraying a detained protester as a woman of questionable morals, accusing a prominent publisher of incitement...
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