News Staff Three people died after a car crash in St. Francois County on Christmas Eve.According to a report from the Missouri Highway Patrol, a 2004 Ford F150 was traveling northbound on Route OO, south of Route F when the car veered off the left side of the road and struck a tree. The driver of the … Read more
A man 61-year-old Harold E. Luster, of High Ridge has been criminally charged with the murder of his son on Christmas Eve in Jefferson County.The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release prosecutors have charged , with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of his son, Kevin M. Ward, 26, … Read more
The lawsuit over a drive-thru window in Cape Girardeau is now going to federal court. On Monday the city of Cape Girardeau and other defendants named in the legal challenge filed paperwork to move the case from circuit court to a United States District Court.A group of property owners sued the city, the operators of … Read more
Twenty-two earthquakes have registered in the last month along the New Madrid Fault Line in southeast Missouri…most too small to have been felt. Jeff Briggs, with Missouri’s Emergency Management Agency, says the state is monitoring the activity. [mo1quake3] :15 “….anything like that.” (as said) “The New Madrid Seismic Zone is always active,” he says. “In … Read more
Captain Jason J. Cluver, commanding officer of Troop E, Poplar Bluff, is pleased to announce the assignment of two new troopers to Troop E. The new troopers were members of the 122nd Recruit Class that graduated on December 20th. Trooper Ryan W. Brown, of Doniphan, Missouri, has been assigned to Zone 1, which serves the … Read more
Cape Girardeau firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire at 144 Camilla Drive on Sunday. After 25 minutes the blaze was brougt under control. Residents were alerted to the flames by the family dog. No one was hurt. Damage is estimated to be 75-thousand dollars.
Patty Prewitt the longest-serving femails prisoner in MO is among the nine people who have had their sentences commuted by Missouri Governor Mike Parson.He also pardoned 16 others.Prewitt, a now 75-year-old grandmother, was serving a life sentence for the 1984 murder of her husband in their farmhouse in Holden, Missouri.
Following an armed robbery in October in Cape Girardeau the Sheriff’s Department took the third and final suspect involved in this incident into custody. He’s identified as Chrishon Sawyer (19) of Villa Ridge, IL. Sawyer is currently being held in the Cape Girardeau jail on a $100,000 cash only bond.
Jurors in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau this week found a man 52 year old Clinton Rongey from Carter County, Missouri guilty of a felony count of production of child pornography.Evidence and testimony show Rongey took more than 100 images of the victim between February and November of 2023. Rongey is scheduled to be … Read more
A Missouri man 48 year old Christopher Pritchard pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses for setting fire to a house of worship. According to court documents Pritchard pleaded guilty to charges of arson for setting fire to the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on April 28, 2021. No one was … Read more