KZIM News

First Alert Action Day is in effect today due to the threat of impactful snow, sleet and freezing rain. According to a news release from Ameren Missouri, crews are active in the region restoring power where.

In the first case since Blair’s Law, firing a gun with criminal negligence in a municipality at the start of New Year’s Day officers with the Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the 100-Block of S. Park Ave. for shots fired. Officers arrived on the scene and observed 35 year old Stephen Magee of Cape … Read more

The Cape Girardeau Police Department is proud to announce that its officers worked 135 Driving While Impaired (DWI) cases in 2024; the most since 2017 when the department handled 150 cases. This means 35% of these cases were the result of vehicle crashes marking the lowest percentage since 2018 (32%). According to a news release … Read more

Leaders with the Missouri Department of Conservation are watching a recent surge of sick and dead birds found across the state. A spokesman for the Missouri Department of Conservation tells news outlets they are working to determine the cause of sick and dead waterfowl across the state but suspect the highly infectious bird flu is … Read more

Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, has the highway statistics for the New Year’s holiday:no one died, however 21 were injured in 44 traffic collisions and there were 50 cases of stopping drivers for DUI violations.

Trucks are revving up as the Missouri Department of Transportation and Cape Girardeau’s Public Works Department is closely monitoring this weekend’s forecast.“We are getting our equipment ready, putting plows and sandbags in the trucks, and getting them ready for the weather,” said MoDOT District Maintenance Engineer Amy Bryant.Bryant said the district has what it needs … Read more

John Hunter Jungers, 38, of Illinois was arrested for allegedly stealing two vehicles in Cape Girardeau. The arrest followed GPS tracking and witness reports linking him to the thefts.

The number of kindergarten students in Missouri who are not vaccinated continues to grow. KMOX Health Editor Fred Bodimer reports: [mo9VaxDropping] :49 “The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says roughly 9% of all public school kindergarteners in the state did not get the MMR shot to protect against measles, mumps and rubella or … Read more

Lt. Scott Kim, a dedicated member of the Sikeston Department of Public Safety, has decided to retire after quite a few years of outstanding service to the community. Kim, who has been with Sikeston DPS for 16-1/2 years, beginning as a regular officer in 2008, and was promoted to sergeant eight years ago and lieutenant … Read more

Local law enforceement had their hands full over the New Year’s holiday keeping you safe. Some of the highlights, A woman Cree Chantae Selvy has been arrested in connection to reports of shots fired in Cape Girardeau over the weekend and charged with endangering the welfare of a child; at Current River Bowling someone unsuccessfully … Read more