Southeast Missouri engineers prepare for deployment with training at Camp Clark
NEVADA, Mo. -- Two squads of the second platoon of the Missouri National Guard's 1138th Engineer Sapper Company from Southeast Missouri are among the nearly 100 citizen soldiers from Missouri have...
View ArticleWayne County man who fled traffic stop arrested after manhunt
GREENVILLE, Mo. -- After allegedly fleeing from officers earlier in the week during a traffic stop, a Wayne County, Mo., man is behind bars today. At about 10 p.m. Thursday, about 20 to 25 members of...
View ArticleBirths 7/1/12
Daughter to Richard Patrick and Jana Lin Smith of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:25 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Name, Avalyn Marie. Weight, 2 pounds, 2 ounces. Third child, second...
View ArticleOut of the past 7/1/12
The final piece of Saint Francis Medical Center's emergency and trauma program is set in place with the addition of an air ambulance service; Gene Huckstep, the chairman of the hospital's board of...
View ArticleSikeston man dies following shooting
SIKESTON - A 19-year-old Sikeston man is dead after suffering multiple gunshot wounds early Saturday morning. The Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded around 2:15 a.m. Saturday to a report...
View ArticleLost World War II soldier returns home at last
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- It was almost 20 years ago when the Moxleys were first given hope that a family member killed in action during World War II was found. It wasn't until today, however, that he...
View ArticlePerryville man found guilty of rape, sodomy
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Bobby Joe Roberts, 57, was found guilty Friday of one count of rape and two counts of forcible sodomy in a Cape Girardeau County courtroom. Perryville city police received a report...
View ArticleAbout 100 attend transportation meeting in Cape Girardeau
About 100 local business owners and concerned citizens attended a Blue Ribbon Citizens Committee on Transportation meeting on Missouri's transportation needs at the Show Me Center Friday. The event...
View ArticleTexas Gov. Rick Perry stumps for attorney general candidate in Cape Girardeau
A Republican candidate for state attorney general got some help energizing local voters from a former presidential hopeful and an "America's Got Talent" winner at a Cape Girardeau rally Friday. The...
View ArticleHigh temperatures Friday and Saturday break records in Cape Girardeau
A new high temperature record was set Friday with a reading of 107 degrees at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. The reading shattered the old record for the date, 103 degrees, recorded in 1969,...
View ArticleLocal man has a heart to feed others through community gardens
Robert Harris is an unpaid servant of the city of Cape Girardeau. He works tirelessly to help maintain the community gardens at various locations in the city. His work began with a dream -- a dream...
View ArticleFire crews respond to small gas leak in Cape Girardeau
At about 7:45 a.m. Friday, the Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to a gas leak near the intersection of Boulder Crest Drive and North Kingshighway at Cape County Park South, according to...
View ArticleSouthern Illinois preacher will return to court on child sex abuse charges
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Rev. Bill Vandergraph, 74, of Alto Pass, Ill., will return to court in July on charges of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and aggravated criminal sexual abuse for...
View ArticleGerald Stevens
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Gerald L. Stevens, 72, of Marble Hill, formerly of Cape Girardeau, passed away Friday, June 29, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Gerald was born Dec. 8, 1939, in Cape...
View ArticleVerna Roth
FROHNA, Mo. -- Verna M. Roth, 87, of Frohna died Saturday, June 30, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 11, 1924, in Frohna, daughter of Arthur and Amanda...
View ArticleJ.T. Price
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- J.T. Price, 85, of Perryville died Friday, June 29, 2012, at Perry Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Perryville. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at...
View ArticleKeith Patterson
Keith F. Patterson, 49, of Scott City died Friday, June 29, 2012, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Sept. 19, 1962, in Cape Girardeau to Henry and Judy Patterson. He and Donna Davis...
View ArticleGary Niswonger
Gary N. Niswonger, 76, former fire chief for the city of Jackson, passed away Friday, June 29, 2012, at Delmar Gardens on the Green in Chesterfield, Mo. He was born Aug. 24, 1935, in Cape Girardeau...
View ArticleBurning banned in Missouri conservation areas
Effective immediately, the Missouri Department of Conservation has issued a fire ban for all conservation areas, according to a department news release. The fire ban includes any open fires,...
View ArticleDonald Miller
Donald Lee Miller, 51, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Patton, Mo., died Friday, June 29, 2012, at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday at Liley...
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