Cape Girardeau City Council members welcomed a plan Monday to turn the Common Pleas Courthouse and Annex into a new city hall featuring an addition that would connect the two downtown historic structures. City officials say the project is expected to cost an estimated $12 million with $6 million coming from a capital improvements sales […]
Cape Girardeau City Councilman Victor Gunn plans to resign July 8. The Ward 3 councilman made the announcement at Monday’s council meeting. Gunn was first elected in August 2014 to fill the unexpired term of Trent Summers, who moved out of the ward. He was elected to a full, four-year term in April 2016. His […]
Highway 77 in Scott County, between County Road 525 and County Road 352, will be closed as contractor crews replace the bridge over the North Cut Ditch, just north of Diehlstadt. A Missouri Department of Transportation news release states the work will be done from July 1 through Sept. 30. A signed detour will direct […]
If any changes are made to the schedule or location of Jackson’s annual Homecomers celebration, it won’t be before 2020. That was the consensus of the Jackson Board of Aldermen on Monday night after listening to chairman of American Legion Post 158 and chairman of the Jackson Homecomers committee, Larry Koehler, explain for all intents and […]
Two Missouri casinos will be getting new owners. VICI Properties Inc. and Century Casinos Inc. are acquiring the Isle Casino Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau and Lady Luck Casino in Caruthersville. The companies also are buying Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in New Cumberland, West Virginia. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the companies will pay […]
A St. Louis judge says Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature cannot cut off funding to abortion providers and their affiliates. St. Louis Circuit Court Judge David Dowd on Friday ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood. The organization sued in February against efforts by Missouri lawmakers to block state funding from going to Planned Parenthood. The St. Louis […]
Governor Mike Parson has appointed a former judge who has supported an anti-abortion pregnancy resource center — and been disciplined for publicly doing so — to an administrative panel that could handle an abortion clinic licensing dispute. Parson earlier this month appointed former Macon County Associate Circuit Judge Philip Prewitt to the Administrative Hearing Commission. […]
Perry County has been deemed ” Agri-Ready.” KZIM’s Brandon Dickson has more.