Cape Girardeau News

Ita TMs almost time to kick off the Christmas season in Cape Girardeau! The 18th annual Parade of Lights hits Broadway from Capaha Park to the riverfront next Sunday the 29th! Beginning at dusk, Old Town Cape Executive Director Marla Mills says the floats will make their way towards the downtown area in all of their glittering glory! She tells KZIM ...

Police are searching for a man believed to have robbed the Capaha Bank branch at Broadway and Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 10:15 am US/Eastern ST. LOUIS 1 of 1 A Missouri woman was arrested after a line-cutting altercation at a Wal-Mart in 2007.

When William Piercey Sr. of Cape Girardeau submitted a guest column to the Southeast Missourian he wanted to voice his frustration with what government-run health care may resemble.

After nine months of meeting and data gathering, a local group is starting to nail down a plan to increase graduation rates in the Cape Girardeau School District.

It took two years of negotiations and a $70,000 analysis, but a new agreement would provide community college access in Cape Girardeau County.

Russell Todd McBride, who operated Century Mortgage and Finance Inc., has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for running a mortgage scheme that fraudulently pumped up the price of more than 250 properties and cost victims more than $7 million, the U.S attorney's office said Monday.

In an attempt to shore up city revenue, the Cape Girardeau City Council on Monday night hired a Kansas City collection firm to chase people who haven't paid their utility bills.

Normally, Allison Turner prefers jeans and T-shirts while working with horses in her hometown of Cape Girardeau.

An ambulance crew finds themselves in the middle of a hit and run crash. It happened around 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning in 2000 block of New Madrid Street in Cape Girardeau.

* An ordinance amending the city code by establishing a no-parking zone on Meadowbrook Lane.

There are potentially two more candidates for mayor of Cape Girardeau, setting up a likely February primary to pick two candidates to meet in the April general election.

While the Cape Girardeau School District will not finalize its budget for another seven months, it is already discussing cost-cutting measures with staff.

John Dudley, an industrial engineering and technology instructor at Southeast Missouri State University, discusses robotic engineering with area eighth-grade students Thursday at the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center.

Two candidates filed Thursday for the open Ward 2 Cape Girardeau City Council seat.

Rufus was the 2nd place winner at the Pooch Pageant. On Oct. 30, 2009, dogs and their owners gathered at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau, Mo., for the facility's first-ever Pooch Pageant.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis says Archbishop Robert Carlson used money from a discretionary fund when he gave $10,000 to support the successful effort to prevent legalization of gay marriage in Maine.

Crews battled another big brush fire Wednesday in Cape Girardeau. This one was very close to a blaze that happened Tuesday night.

A screen shot of the website theheatherelliscase.com. An Internet site that advocates for the defendant in a racially charged case out of Kennett, Mo., is implying the Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney may be a racist based on the cover of a book he authored.

Cape Girardeau was the site of the Tour of Missouri's Stage 2 finish this year, where local reports are mixed about the economic activity brought in by the event.