Scott County News

Budget cuts could force a Missouri school to close midway through the academic year, leaving students with half-earned credits scrambling to complete their education.

A bomb threat Wednesday evening against the Rhodes 101 in Chaffee, Mo., proved to be a prank, Chaffee Police Chief Jim Chambers said in a news release issued today.

When the former director of the South Scott County Ambulance District resigned in July, the district's board of directors knew they wanted to move in a different direction.

Six juveniles were arrested last week for burglary and property damage following an investigation by the Sikeston Department of Public Safety.

Two men have died after a single-engine airplane crashed in southeast Missouri. Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter identified the victims as Paul Fisher and Robbie Rollins.

Two people died Saturday after the plane they were in crashed during takeoff at a private air strip in Scott County.

Some area law enforcement agencies are stepping up efforts to watch sex offenders this Halloween.

Scott County commissioners are hoping a meeting with Public Water Supply District No.

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

The Scott County Sheriff's Department arrested a Benton couple Friday on suspicion they were carrying marijuana in a car with a child present.

Two Chaffee, Mo., men were arrested Wednesday night on a list of drug-related charges, according to a news release from the Scott County Sheriff's Department.

A routine traffic stop in Miner led to the discovery of an alleged methamphetamine lab and five arrests by Sikeston and Miner police officers.

Hunters are gearing up for deer season despite high ammunition prices and hard economic times.

Two Sikeston men were in the Scott County Jail Friday morning after leading Scott County deputies on a chase.

A Sikeston man is killed in a Friday evening roll-over wreck near Morley. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, it happened on County Road 405 just after 8:30 p.m. According to investigators, 29-year-old David Scowden of Sikeston was driving southbound on County Road 405 when his vehicle ran off the right side of roadway, overcorrected, ...

Scherer, a 19-year-old whose family lived on a farm in old Illmo, Mo., was abducted 30 years ago during an apparent robbery of the Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own-Service station where she worked on Main Street in Scott City.

The Scott City Police Department's jail could soon become safer to load and unload inmates.

The Scott City Park Board sponsored a poker run Saturday, followed by a music festival co-sponsored by the Scott City Kiwanis.

A Benton man was in the Scott County Jail Thursday afternoon for alleged statutory sodomy, according to a Scott County Sheriff's Department news release.

Missouri is starting to get a reputation for gun goofiness. Earlier this year, the General Assembly seriously considered allowing concealed firearms on college campuses.