Regional News

SIKESTON – The Southeast Coalition for Roadway Safety is offering a grant opportunity to local law enforcement agencies beginning May 1. Regional funding will be used to cover the cost of requested equipment that supports efforts to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on Missouri’s roadways. Agencies must demonstrate how the requested equipment will improve roadway […]

CAPE GIRARDEAU – U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. on Tuesday sentenced a former Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper to 21 months in prison for searching women’s cell phones for nude images during traffic stops.   David McKnight, 40, unlawfully searched the cell phones of nine women without a warrant or probable cause from Sept.

JEFFERSON CITY — An 11-year-old Farmington boy was airlifted to SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital for treatment of moderate injuries following Ste. Genevieve County crash Sunday.   The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the boy was operating a 2001 Kawasaki Bayou 220 when it overturned on top of him.   The accident happened in

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Lutheran Family and Children’s Services (LFCS), one of Missouri’s oldest social service agencies and most trusted advocates for children and families, has named Chris Gearin as its new chief development officer.     Gearin joins the LFCS executive team with more than 30 years of leadership experience. As chief development officer,

CAPE GIRARDEAU – A man from Wayne County, Missouri on Tuesday admitted threatening employees of the Social Security Administration twice in 2025.   Timothy Wells Stevens, 57, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau to two counts of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce. On Oct. 1, 2025, Stevens was talking to an

CAPE GIRARDEAU  — National Volunteer Week is being observed from April 19 through April 25, and American Red Cross of Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas, would like to honor those who are the heart of the organization ─ the volunteers who contribute their time and talent to make the Red Cross mission possible every day.   Generations of American Red

ST. LOUIS – April Showers, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri’s (GSEM) largest community service program, begins this Friday, April 17 when Girl Scouts, their troop leaders, and families help people in need by going door-to-door, distributing sticky notes throughout the community with the request for personal care item donations. The following Saturday, April 25, Girl