CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Earthquake experts from across the region will gather in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, for the seventh annual Earthquake Summit. Located in southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau is in the heart of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). With more than 500 professionals expected to attend, the event […]
ST. LOUIS – Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is unveiling a rolling resource to improve community health across the bistate region – including the River Region counties of Ste. Genevieve, Perry and Randolph. Photos by Matt Miller, WashU Medicine·Updated Yesterday by Goodwin, Jim
PARK HILLS – Mineral Area College (MAC) is poised to significantly expand access to career and technical education (CTE) along the I-55 corridor, with a proposed $30 million initiative designed to address the workforce needs in Ste. Genevieve, Perry, and Cape Girardeau counties. This project, contingent on state appropriations and private donations, will establish new state-of-the-art
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO — Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9 and the American Red Cross encourages everyone to test their smoke alarms as they turn their clocks forward to make sure the devices are working. “Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire in half as you only have
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CAPE GIRARDEAU – The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control announces the arrest of a 21-year-old Cape Girardeau, Mo. woman in connection with the death of a one-year old child. Alyssa N. Wehmeyer, was formally charged March 4, 2025, with one count of Abuse Or Neglect Of A Child – Resulting
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POTOSI, MO., — On Saturday, March 15, the Heartland Trail Trash volunteer group will hold a cleanup event to remove illegal trash from across a wide area of Mark Twain National Forest’s Potosi-Fredericktown Ragner District, and they can use your help! Last year, with over 60 volunteers, they were able to collect tons of illegal trash
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CAPE GIRARDEAU – U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. on Tuesday sentenced a man from Poplar Bluff, Missouri who tried to sell methamphetamine shortly after his release from prison to 12 more years in prison. Lonnie C. Hamilton, 40, pleaded guilty in December to one felony count of possession with intent to distribute
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CAPE GIRARDEAU – The United States Attorney’s Office has announced that Steven Lee Brown, age 33, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has been sentenced to serve of term of 360 months (30 years) in federal prison following his guilty plea to the offense of Producing Child Pornography. Brown appeared for his sentencing hearing this week
CAPE GIRARDEAU – The American Red Cross of Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas needs local disaster response volunteers and will be hosting a training for anyone interested to attend. The Disaster Action Team (DAT) serves as the first, on-the-scene, Red Cross contact at the site of a disaster. While not considered first responders in the
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PARK HILLS – The Mineral Area College Board of Trustees will meet Thursday for a work session, executive session and open session beginning at 9:30 a.m. with the work session. The executive session will follow the work session. The open session will begin at 11 a.m. The open session will be open to the
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