Caruthersville News

A first of it's kind mobile unit in Southeast Missouri rolled into Caruthersville Saturday.

Members of South Elementary's Leadership Team met with members from five area schools on Monday, as part of the University of Virginia's Turnaround Program.

Once again the weather is causing difficulties for area farmers. Not so much as the actual harvesting but in the lack of river transportation to ferry it to shipping ports down South.

"Protecting Children in Pemiscot County," a program designed to provide information and statistics concerning child abuse in Missouri, was recently offered at the Cross Roads Worship Center in Braggadocio, and sponsored by the Green Bear Club with cooperation and support from Pemiscot County Prosecuting Attorney Investigator, Tina Cook.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting the arrest of a 35-year-old Caruthersville man in Perry County Tuesday morning.

The past week I have had a 3-4 month old Pit Bull puppy named Axl staying with me.

Two Pemiscot County men and one Pemiscot County juvenile were recently arrested following a robbery at the Kennett Walmart on Friday, Oct.

Local residents can participate in charitable giving Residents of Dunklin and Pemiscot Counties will have the chance to bring the "joy of Christmas to needy children" around the area by donating to Toys for Tots.

A 14-year-old girl who sparked a nationwide Amber Alert was found guilty Tuesday of two counts of filing a false police report.

The Missouri Municipal League recently passed a resolution at its annual conference in support of changes to state law to allow public notices of municipalities to be posted on city government Web sites.

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A 1937 Ford approaches Lorimier Street in the flash-flooded 200 block of Broadway during the late 1930s in Cape Girardeau.

A 6 year-old was removed from a home Friday after police report finding a meth lab in the kitchen while he was asleep upstairs.

A Pemiscot County man was sentenced Thursday to federal prison on multiple federal charges.

Dexter school officials learned Wednesday that the scheduled football game Friday night at Charleston has had to be cancelled because of a flu outbreak in the Charleston school system.

An investigation by the Kennett Humane Department, Kennett Police Department , Caruthersville Humane Society, and the Humane Society of Missouri resulted several dogs being surrendered to authorities.

A Sikeston man will go to trial this spring for 1st degree murder! New Madrid County Circuit Judge Fred Copeland Tuesday set a March 18th, 2010, jury trial date for 47-year-old Robert Eldridge in Caruthersville.

Poland's media bluntly summed up the feelings of the country's political right towards President Obama's axing of plans for an east European missile shield today: "Betrayed! The USA has sold us to the Russians and stabbed us in the back," was the headline in one popular newspaper.

President Obama's remarks were seen to be especially insensitive due to the fact that this was the 70th anniversary of the Red Army's invasion of Poland after Hitler and Stalin had reached a compromise "carving up the country between themselves." The Czech Republic also felt slighted by the president saying, "Obama gave into the Kremlin." However, the situation in Poland is growing into a hot political debate here in the states, with conservatives saying the president deliberately abandoned the weapons system project in order to strengthen ties with Russia. The Kremlin was the biggest opponent of the weapons system even though the US has said repeatedly that this was to ward off an attack by Iran.

After attending a Turnaround Program over the summer, the Kennett School District has implemented a 90-day plan to get the district on track to raise Missouri Assessment Program test scores.

Members of the Senath-Hornersville School District recently attended a Virginia Turnaround Specialist Program, a program designed to increase teacher leadership and technique.