CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – You may have noticed a yellow boat-shaped buoy with reflective tape, lights, and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) emblem near the mouth of the Headwater Diversion Channel south of Cape Girardeau – but please don’t touch! “This buoy, which is one of several deployed in the Mississippi River basin by […]
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ST. LOUIS –The 44th Annual Builders Home & Remodeling Show, presented by James Hardie Building Products, returns to St. Charles Convention Center September 20-22. The Show, produced by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis, gives area residents the opportunity to see more than 150 companies in 300 booths on both levels of the Convention
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has authorized an Emergency Fish Salvage Order for North County Park Lake in Cape Girardeau County Park. The order is in effect now through Sept. 30, 2024. The Emergency Fish Salvage Order will enable anglers to remove as many fish as possible to minimize
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FARMINGTON – The September Women’s Connection Brunch will be 9:15-11 a.m., Tuesday, September 10th in the Fellowship Hall of the Farmington Presbyterian Church, 403 W. Columbia will have Donna Hickman as a special guest speaker. She works for 8th District Congressman Jason Smith, and will explain how people in the 8th district can seek
CAPE GIRARDEAU – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who fatally shot someone in Butler County, Missouri to protect a heroin conspiracy to 20 years in prison. James Odell Johnson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and one count
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U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri CAPE GIRARDEAU – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold fentanyl to a federal informant to 12 years in federal prison. Rodney G. Harris, 45, of Jackson, Missouri, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl and admitted that he sold fentanyl to
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Southeast Missouri’s Department of Athletics is once again teaming up to Sack Hunger this 2024 football season. SEMO is partnering with Southeast Missouri Food Bank, Coalter Insurance Group, First Midwest Bank, Coast to Coast Signs, Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo and Midwest Sterilization to provide meals to families facing hunger in the southeast Missouri
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO — The American Red Cross offers this checklist you can follow to help make sure your student is safe as they go back to the classroom. If your student is younger or going to school for the first time, teach them: Their phone number, address, how to get in touch with their
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CAPE GIRARDEAU – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold fentanyl to someone who later suffered a fatal overdose to 10 years in prison. Dylan C. McMikle provided several lines of powdered fentanyl that the 25-year-old victim snorted early on the morning of Dec. 16, 2022. The victim left
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CAPE GIRARDEAU – A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier who both stole and failed to deliver customers’ mail was sentenced Tuesday to 14 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp also ordered Robert Gafford, 34, to pay a $5,000 fine. Gafford of Jackson, Missouri, was convicted by a jury in U.S.
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