Rams DL Long ties father's best sack season
ST. LOUIS -- Chris Long will top the best season ever put together by his Hall of Fame father if he gets a sack in the St. Louis Rams' finale Sunday. He'll still be playing catch-up in his mind....
View ArticleHigh school roundup: St. Vincent boys basketball team earns shot at Winter...
All the scores from Thursday that were reported to the Southeast Missourian.
View ArticleCharleston boys basketball team squeezes Cape Central in semifinals
Charleston's trademark defense was at its suffocating best Thursday night, especially during a first half that saw Central score just 12 points. The fourth-seeded Tigers felt the sting, losing 50-39...
View ArticleLeopold boys basketball team's defense carries it past Advance
Leopold and Advance traded blows throughout their consolation semifinal Thursday night in the Southeast Missourian Christmas tournament. Then the Wildcats' defense stepped up and their offense...
View ArticleSophomore leads Jackson boys basketball team's charge past Scott City
Karson King is playing much older than his sophomore status these days. King led a fourth-quarter charge to help fifth-seeded Jackson pull away from eighth-seeded Scott City 48-36 on Thursday in the...
View ArticleNotre Dame boys basketball team rocks three-time defending tourney champs...
The second-seeded Notre Dame Bulldogs and the third-seeded Scott County Central Braves were supposed to play the most competitive game of the night Thursday at the Southeast Missourian Christmas...
View ArticleDifferent opinions for top movies of '11
LOS ANGELES -- Associated Press reviewers Christy Lemire and David Germain saw the same films in 2011, but they clearly weren't seeing the same pictures. They usually have a fair amount of overlap in...
View ArticleMonitors' presence energizes Syrian protests
HOMS, Syria -- The presence of Arab League monitors in Syria has re-energized the anti-government protest movement, with tens of thousands turning out over the past three days in cities and...
View ArticleI-55 in New Madrid County reduced for surveying
SIKESTON, Mo. -- North- and southbound Interstate 55 in New Madrid County will be reduced to one lane Thursday as contractor crews survey from the Marston, Mo., rest area extending north one mile....
View ArticleU.S. 60 in Stoddard County reduced for guardrail replacement
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Westbound U.S. 60 between Route TT and Highway 51 in Stoddard County will be reduced to one lane Tuesday as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace the guardrail. The...
View ArticleRamp on U.S. 60 in Butler County to close for pavement repairs
SIKESTON, Mo. -- The ramp on eastbound U.S. 60 in Butler County will be closed today as Missouri Department of Transportation crews repair the pavement. This ramp is from Route AA to eastbound U.S....
View ArticleOut of the past 1/2/12
In an effort to eliminate the long lines associated with purchasing Cape Girardeau's taxi coupons, the city initiates a new distribution system; chairs are set up in City Hall's gymnasium for senior...
View ArticleMore than 150 attend town hall meeting on possible postal plant closure
Nineteen-year-old Austin Holmes was looking forward to a long career with the U.S. Postal Service. But a month after he started working at the Richard G. Wilson Processing and Distribution Facility...
View ArticleWilliamsville woman accused of shooting husband
WILLIAMSVILLE, Mo. -- A Williamsville woman was being held Thursday at the Wayne County Jail, charged with shooting her husband in the abdomen Wednesday morning during a domestic dispute. Rita...
View ArticleMissouri lawmakers mull changes to school funding formula
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Tight budgets have Missouri lawmakers examining changes to the state school funding formula used to steer basic aid from the state Capitol to classrooms. There has not...
View ArticleSecond person sues Schnucks after St .Louis area E. coli outbreak
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis County man is the second person to seek damages from a grocery-store chain after being sickened in an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. Sixty-one-year-old...
View ArticleRegulatory staff won't seek penalties against Ameren for Taum Sauk fire
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Staff members for the Missouri Public Service Commission will not seek penalties against Ameren Missouri for not quickly reporting a problem at its Taum Sauk reservoir. The St....
View ArticleCape Girardeau Sears, Kmart stores not among first round of cuts
Cape Girardeau's Sears Grand and Kmart escaped the first round of store closings announced by Sears Holdings Corp.
View ArticleCorps: Birds Point 'No. 1 priority' with new funds
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is getting $800 million in federal disaster relief funds to make repairs along the flood-ravaged Mississippi River, corps officials announced Thursday. And the corps...
View ArticlePolice: Men broke into Cape Girardeau house, stole safe with marijuana
A safe recovered following an alleged armed burglary at a house Cape Girardeau early Friday morning led police to something unexpected, and a possibility of criminal charges for the resident. Sgt....
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