Missouri Governor-Elect Mike Kehoe announced the appointment of Mark S. James as Director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety (DPS). James will assume the role of DPS Director effective January 13, 2025, and await Missouri Senate confirmation.“Mark James brings decades of valuable law enforcement and leadership experience to this role, and we’re going to … Read more
Now that the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force has arrested Johnny Morrow of Fisk for selling meth after finding the substance at his home a U.S. District Judge has sentenced Morrow to 152 months in prison. Morrow, now 54 and from Steele, Missouri, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau in June to … Read more
A Republican Senator says she wants tighter restrictions on access to pornographic materials in Missouri charter schools and digital library catalogs. Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman says public schools and libraries are already required to take preventative measures. [mo2lewd1] :10 “school libraries” (as is) “It’s an attempt to make sure that our public tax dollars are … Read more
The legal challenge to redevelopment plans at West Park Mall is in the spotlight in a Cape Girardeau County courtroom today at 9 a.m. Businesses representing the Drury family filed a temporary restraining order to stop River City Centre from blocking or altering access roads to Silver Springs Road on the east end of the … Read more
In its eleventh year Slumberland Furniture working with Cape Girardeau Rotary West donated a hundred mattress sets for kids in Cape Girardeau and Jackson for the “home for the Holidays” event.It provides mattress sets to children who don’t have beds. Volunteers began loading up mattresses at Slumberland Furniture on Saturday morning.
A new law being proposed in Missouri would crack down on the sale of stolen catalytic converters, the part of a vehicle that converts emissions into less harmful gasses. And, because they contain rare minerals, platinum, palladium, and rhodium, catalytic converters are a common target of thieves.
Missouri Department of Conservation agents cleaned up the last of a homeless encampment in Cape Girardeau. That clean-up came after agents warned people camping on Conservation property to move their stuff, or they would be moved for them.This all happened down at the Red Star Access Boat Ramp along the Mississippi River in downtown Cape … Read more
A southeast Missouri man 31 year old Cameron Robinson of Sikeston was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fentanyl trafficking. According to a news release from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. Robinson’s sentencing hearing was held on Thursday at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau.
33 year old Steven Lee Brown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has pled guilty to the offense of Producing Child Pornography. Brown appeared for his guilty plea hearing before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau. According to court documents, last May, the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office … Read more
In health news, Mercy and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri have reached a new multi-year agreement providing Anthem members with continued access to affordable, high-quality care at all Mercy hospitals, outpatient care centers and physician offices across Missouri. With the new contract, Anthem members covered by Anthem employer-based, Medicare Advantage and Affordable … Read more