Adopt Renee
Renee has personality plus. She is an outgoing girl who likes attention and is playful. Renee likes being near you, but still enjoys the freedom to do her own thing. For more information call...
View ArticlePet of the week
Pet Name: Pup Owner: Susan Green About Pup: Pup is 13 years old this week. His favorite activity is barking at the goats. ...
View ArticleSchool menus 4-30 to 5-4
MONDAY--Homestyle chicken bites or ham & cheese on bun, vegetable blend with cheese, peach cup, Krispy Kreme wafer cookie. TUESDAY--Crispito with nacho cheese sauce or turkey & cheese on bun,...
View ArticleClub news 4/29/12
The John Guild Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution held a luncheon meeting on April 18 at Kimbeland Country Club in Jackson. The slate of officers who will serve 2012-2014...
View ArticleGospel singer Russ Taff to perform benefit concert Friday in Jackson
Gospel singer Russ Taff will perform a benefit concert Friday at the Jackson City Park Band shell to benefit Heartland Adaptive Sports. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Taff's music has won him five...
View Article$5 million lottery ticket sold at Cape Girardeau gas station, claimed by law...
A $5 million winning Missouri Lottery ticket was purchased in Cape Girardeau, according to a lottery news release. The winning ticket was purchased at Discount Smoke Shop, 340 S. Sprigg St., and was...
View ArticleTeenager arrested after Friday morning crash knocks out power in Cape Girardeau
Cape Girardeau police arrested an Oak Ridge teenager and charged him with second-degree assault after an injury accident that left 5,187 Ameren Missouri customers without electricity and caused a...
View ArticleBenton, Mo., man arrested on drug charges
BENTON, Mo. -- A 30-year-old Benton man was in the Scott County jail Friday on $25,000 bond following a narcotics investigation that resulted in his arrest, the sheriff's department said in a news...
View ArticleLabor department drops proposed rules restricting child farm labor
A proposed rule restricting children who work on family farms has been withdrawn by the U.S. Department of Labor after thousands of comments were received opposing it. The department withdrew the...
View ArticleTools, electronics stolen from Jackson auto repair shop
The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department on Friday was investigating a burglary that occurred just outside Jackson sometime after 8:30 p.m. Thursday, according to sheriff's department Lt....
View ArticleGSA negotiations
The General Services Administration's handling of the sale of the old Cape Girardeau courthouse on Broadway was a fiasco. There's no other way to put it. The fate of the building began to unfold upon...
View ArticleSpeak Out 4/29/12
The reason 47 percent of wage earners pay no income tax is because that is the way the top 1 percent wants it. If the lower-income people paid income tax, they would have less money to spend in the...
View ArticleA historical perspective on ALEC and NCSL
Let me put a little personal historic perspective on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and attacks by the media spearheaded by the liberal Common Cause and Media Matters funded by...
View ArticleJoe VanCleve
Joe Robert VanCleve, 90, of Caruthersville, Mo., died Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at the VA Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was born March 23, 1922, in Caruthersville, to Frances Madison and Henry...
View ArticleEllen Greene
Ellen Ruth Noel Greene, 75, of San Ramon, Calif., died unexpectedly of a heart attack Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. She was born March 1, 1936, in Jackson. Ellen was raised on the family farm near Gravel...
View ArticleCO levels in Blanchard Elementary deemed safe after Thursday evacuation
Blanchard Elementary in Cape Girardeau was evacuated for over an hour Thursday morning after an unknown cause set off a carbon monoxide detector inside the building. Cape Girardeau School District...
View ArticleJackson school bus involved in hit-and-run accident
Investigators were searching for a Chevrolet S-10 pickup involved in a two-vehicle accident with a Jackson School District bus early Friday afternoon, said Sgt. Brad Lively, of the Missouri State...
View ArticleRegina Dirnberger
Regina Magdalen Dirnberger, 98, of New Hamburg, Mo., passed away April 27, 2012, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. She was born Nov. 9, 1913 at Benton, Mo., daughter of Henry and Regina Scherer Compas....
View ArticleCape council, staff mull myriad topics at daylong retreat
There were new ideas, such as more high-dollar water toys for Cape Splash Family Aquatic Center and finding what looks to be expensive land for a new industrial park. There were updates on old...
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