Cape Girardeau News

Emergency responders and utilities have been racing to rescue stranded motorists and restore power after storms bearing high winds and heavy rain hit parts of eastern Missouri.

A downed tree pulled power lines on Old Hopper Road in Cape Girardeau. Arena Park in Cape Girardeau Arena Park in Cape Girardeau At the Great Wall restaurant in Cape Girardeau on William Street.

Police say a white man wearing a gray shirt and dark pants entered the Amerimart at 1320 W. Cape Rock, threatened the clerk and demanded money.

Rep. Jason Smith has been in office for less than two weeks, but the newly elected Missouri Republican and 32-year-old attorney-turned-legislator already seems poised to cut a different profile in the U.S. House than his predecessor.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Forty-eight years after Elizabeth Ann Gill was abducted while playing in the front yard of her southeast Missouri home, her relatives believe she is still alive.

The Southeast Missourian reports that the sinkholes are on busy South Sprigg Street, near LaCroix Creek.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Attendance is down significantly at Missouri's newest casino.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Seven Republicans and three Democrats have been appointed to a Missouri Senate committee that will study potential changes to the Medicaid health care program for the poor.

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ST. LOUIS - The flood-swollen Mississippi River is going down, but it will be some time before things dry out.

Check this report of Missouri relationship drama that thankfully ended with a fizzle OR Guy with short fuse planned final blowout with his estranged wife.

Some Cape Girardeau residents had to evacuate their homes Sunday morning after a bomb exploded in their neighborhood.

Cape Girardeau police say a man was injured after driving to a woman's home with an explosive device in his car.

CAPE GIRAREAU, MO - A Cape Girardeau man is facing two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son.

Floodwaters have once again overtaken parts of our region. High water from the Mississippi River has made fields west of Cape Girardeau look more like ponds.

A southeast Missouri man pleaded guilty Thursday to killing his estranged wife, a mother of triplets who was missing for almost two years before her body was found last week on an island in the nearby Mississippi River.

James Clay Waller II of Jackson entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder in the death of Jacque Sue Waller.

This undated file photo provided by Ruby Rawson shows Jacque Sue Waller, right, and her husband Clay Waller.

It's been two years since the flood of 2011 put the squeeze on Cairo. Near record highs along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers threatened the city.

Volunteers were busy stacking sandbags in the tiny Missouri town of Dutchtown on June 3 as the rain-swollen Mississippi River threatened to send water into about a third of the town's homes and make another nearby town an island.