Highway 114 in Scott County, from Route BB to New Madrid Street, will be reduced as Missouri Department of Transportation crews make edge rut repairs. The work will be done from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, Monday through Friday. All work is weather permitting. Work zones will be marked with signs. You are urged […]
Four firefighters were injured when the roof of a house collapsed on top of them while battling flames. Fire crews responded Friday evening to a house fire in Sikeston. They found flames coming from the roof and went inside the house to try to knock down the blaze. Officials say moments later, the roof collapsed. […]
The Boon Park Project is a community project that started in November 2016 with special education teachers requesting the park board for playground equipment for those with physical handicaps. The park board appointed a playground committee in April of 2017. They had discovered there are 743 disabled students in the Stoddard County Schools with 331 […]
A wellness check on a Williamsville man’s children Wednesday afternoon led authorities to discover what Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs described as the most complex meth lab he has ever seen. After 2 p.m. deputies assisted Missouri Children’s Division workers in conducting a “well-being check” at 47-year-old Floyd Martin’s home on Moonstone Lane. The Children’s […]
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded $50,000 Small Community Engineering Assistance Program grants to the cities of Bonne Terre and Willow Springs to evaluate their respective wastewater systems. The grant offers funding to qualifying small communities to help cover engineering costs for evaluating wastewater system improvements. Each city will use the grant to […]
Cape Girardeau police officers are investigating two armed robberies that occurred within hours of one another Wednesday in Cape Girardeau. The first happened around 4:30 p.m. near South Pacific Street and involved a group of suspects, two of which were reported to have been armed with handguns. A victim fled to Rhodes 101 on S. […]