JEFFERSON CITY – Ste. Genevieve sales tax receipts were down for the month of October and down so far in 2025 according to the Missouri Department of Revenue. The D-O-R reports the one percent general sales tax brought in $56,592.87 in October, down nealry $10,000 from October 2024. So far this calendar year, […]
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports two Perryville women received minor injuries in a traffic crash on I-55 in Cape Girardeau County Saturday afternoon. According to the accident report, the women, aged 24 and 36, were taken by ambulance to Mercy Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau for treatment. The patrol
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STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – Tax consequences of the previous year are not often thought about until the bill comes due the next year – when nothing can be done. Depending on payment amounts received, livestock sales, and other circumstances, producers could face substantial tax obligations in 2025. To help farmers navigate these challenges, Rachel
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CAPE GIRARDEAU – Two Missouri men were sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on Friday for operating a long-running Ponzi scheme that cost at least 99 victims $5.7 million. U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. sentenced James “Jim” Johnson, 78, to 188 months in prison and Darrell Niswonger, 69, to 150
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CAPE GIRARDEAU –The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control (DDCC) announces criminal charges against 34-year-old Keenan E. Peoples of Hayti, Mo., 38-year-old Donald F. Peoples Jr. of Caruthersville, Mo., and 19-year-old Blake R. Patrick of East Prairie, Mo. The Pemiscot County charges were filed after the three men were directly connected
STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen met in regular session Thursday, November 13, 2025. Matt Clark and Kristine Fulford from the Ste. Genevieve YMCA presented an update on the transition to the YMCA operation of the Ste. Geneieve County Community Center. Clark reviewed a survey of Ste. Genevieve County residents
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SPRINGFIELD – Starved Rock State Park, including the Starved Rock Lodge and other park amenities, will remain open to visitors during an $18 million trail improvement project that is expected to get underway this winter and continue through 2026. A video of the project is available on You Tube at: https://youtu.be/Qop_RuswPJI?si=w0CMTtUIeKIckdlk The work will
by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — The Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music’s Guitar Studio will host its fall ensemble on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The free, public performance is at 7 p.m. in the Old Baptist Foundation Recital Hall, 980 Faner Drive on the SIU campus. The concert will feature solo works for classical guitar drawing
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — More than 100 middle school and high school students from throughout the region are expected to learn the intricacies of playing brass instruments and learn more about careers in music at the third Brass Day, hosted by Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Music on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Jessica Butler, an
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By Jason Smith, member of Congress After weeks of obstruction by the Radical Left, enough Senate Democrats joined Republicans to reopen the government. American families were being held hostage because of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s demands to provide taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants. All while openly admitting that the suffering caused by the
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