New Madrid News

By Ed Leefeldt Dec 24, 2009 Here's a prediction that no one wants to hear: a major earthquake in 2010.

Parts of our region were shaken by an earthquake early Friday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 3.1 magnitude quake hit near the southeast Missouri town of Marston.

The magnitude 3.1 quake happened at 5:38 a.m. Friday along the New Madrid fault line and was centered about nine miles south of New Madrid, Mo., not far from the Tennessee and Kentucky state lines.

New Madrid's Annual Christmas Candlelight Tours and Open House will take place in historic New Madrid.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - A naval recruiter has pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence connected to a statutory rape case against him.

December 4, 1990 was supposed to turn out to be one of the worst days in Missouri history.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt.

The New Madrid County Central Eagles outlasted the Potosi Trojans to claim a 32-24 victory in a barnburner Monday night outside New Madrid.

The small earthquakes that sporadically rattle the central United States may actually be aftershocks from a few extremely large quakes that occurred in the region almost 200 years ago, according to a new study The New Madrid Earthquakes, which struck between December 1811 and February 1812, are some of the strongest seismic events ever to occur in ...

Farmers in about two-thirds of Missouri's counties, including Scott and Stoddard counties, may be eligible for aid because of a federal disaster declaration for water and wind damage.

Son to the late Donnie C. Fields and Krystal L. Ash of Scott City, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:38 p.m. Monday, Sept.

We remember the 20th century because we've all lived in some part of it and seen lots of video about it.

At any given moment, residents in the Midwest could become victims of a natural disaster.

"I back him up. I sent a letter to the president a number of days ago spelling out in great detail - some six pages of a letter - spelling out basically 'Give the general what he needs.' You see, you have to have security in Afghanistan.

Testimony from an arson victim and a police detective Friday convinced Associate Circuit Judge Gary A. Kamp to order a Cape Girardeau man to stand trial on arson charges for a Sept.

A former southeast Missouri public administrator faces three counts of stealing for allegedly taking money from those under her care.

A fire early Friday morning, September 11, 2009, blazed through 1863 Big Bend Road in north Cape Girardeau.

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23, 1984 St. Mark Lutheran Church congregation held a mortgage-burning ceremony Thursday night in honor of completing the payment on the church parsonage, 2117 Sherwood Drive; the mortgage was taken in 1966.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - America will be asked once again for their help in solving a Southeast Missouri "cold case." The television show "America's Most Wanted" will air a segment on a old homicide in Greenville, S.C., and its link to the March 28, 1998, murders of Sherri Ann Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter, Megan Elizabeth.