Cape Girardeau News

A man is making his way to the Mississippi Mud House from Kansas City today. He's a grandfather, military veteran and a Texas-born, down-to-earth guy who almost always wears a cowboy hat.

Story Published: Nov 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 5, 2009 at 7:04 PM CST Missouri's 2009 state high school volleyball champions are being determined this weekend at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.

Dr. Raymond Ritter sees the world in the terms of a painting -- the light on someone's forehead or the shine of her hair.

You can find it at the 2 garage sales in one day. photo PBH Cape Girardeau hosts the largest indoor garage sale at the Osage Community Center, Saturday, November 7, 2009, beginning 8:00 am.

A Cape Girardeau man faces child pornography charges after his girlfriend allegedly found explicit photos on his home computer.

The attorney for a Cape Girardeau man on death row says the man is mentally disabled and wants the Missouri Supreme Court to lift the death sentence.

Cape Girardeau -- John Lawrence wants his wife, Michelle R. Lawrence, to pay dearly for allegedly urging her boyfriend, Ryan Patterson, to murder him.

The City of Cape Girardeau has issued several "bullet points" in an effort to outline the details of, and changes expected to come along with the city's new automated trash collection system.

Three area colleges will join together in an unprecedented partnership between Southeast Missouri State University and the region's two community colleges.

There was a double homicide early Tuesday morning at 1224 N. Missouri St. in Cape Girardeau.

Automated trash collection is on the way, the Cape Girardeau City Council decided Monday night.

Well-known Cape Girardeau businesswoman Kathy Swan filed today as a candidate for the Ward 6 city council seat.

Cape Girardeau's new air carrier Cape Air expects to have something extra passengers in this area have been missing for several years -- a code sharing arrangement with a major airline.

Midwestern flooding is usually associated with the spring or summer, but heavy rain last week is causing rivers to spill over their banks in parts of Missouri and Illinois.

President William Howard Taft visited Cape Girardeau on 100 years ago on October 26, 1909.

Arson charges have been filed against the two men already charged with murder in the shooting deaths of a pregnant woman and her teenage son in southeast Missouri.

Cape Girardeau -- Southeastern Missouri crop and dairy farmers are reporting a tough fall.

Consent ordinances * An ordinance vacating the city's interest in a water-line easement on property owned by Midamerica Hotels west of Cape Girardeau County Park North and east of Limbaugh Lane.

Two Cape Girardeau men died when their small single-engine airplane crashed during takeoff from a private landing strip, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said this evening.

A turkey hunter rushed to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau after being accidentally shot should be released sometime Thursday evening, according to Sgt.