Crime News

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The number of untested rape kits with the Missouri State Highway Patrol's crime lab has more than doubled since August, when a new law requiring police to submit kits within 14 days took effect. As of May 1, 403 kits sat untested, the Kansas City Star reported. There were 179 in August, according to the agency's website, which posts monthly updates...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A 49-year-old Sikeston man is facing nine charges after he allegedly shot at a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who had stopped to help him. Larry Maddox was charged Monday after the shooting Sunday night in New Madrid County. Patrol Sgt. ...

SIKESTON, Mo. — A shooting involving a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper has left one in the hospital in critical condition. According to Sgt. Clark Parrott, a trooper stopped to check on a stranded motorist at 9:51 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 60, just east of U.S. 61 in New Madrid County...

The Missouri Department of Corrections owes Cape Girardeau County more than half a million dollars in reimbursements for housing inmates before they are transferred to state prisons. Cape Girardeau County is not alone. As of mid-March, the state agency owed more than $35 million to Missouri’s counties and the City of St. Louis, according to the Department of Corrections (DOC)...

A new ordinance approved Monday night by the Jackson Board of Aldermen will make it legal to possess medical-grade marijuana, but not until after it can be legally dispensed in Missouri. According to the ordinance, which went into effect immediately upon passage, qualified people can have medical marijuana in the City of Jackson as long as it has been legally prescribed and dispensed by a licensed medical marijuana dispensary. ...

A man was shot in the leg with a small-caliber weapon Sunday night, according to Cape Girardeau Police Department public information officer Sgt. Joey Hann. Hann said it "sounds like non-life-threatening injuries" and the victim was transported to Saint Francis Medical Center by ambulance...

Former Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson will go to prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft. Hutcheson was sentenced Monday in federal court in St. Louis for illegally monitoring the location of other law enforcement officers and civilians without a warrant, prosecutors said in a news release...

The area around a Cape Girardeau banquet hall, where an after-prom party was being held, turned into a shooting gallery early Sunday in which 50 to 60 shots were fired by at least three different individuals, police said. The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. outside the River Valley Banquet Hall at 631 S. Sprigg St., said police Sgt. Joey Hann...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the conviction of a Van Buren, Missouri, man who had sought to set aside his 2009 conviction and death sentence for killing a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant. In an opinion, written by Judge George W. Draper III and joined by five judges, the court found Circuit Judge Kelly Parker did not err in denying relief to Lance Shockley’s various claims raised in his most recent appeal...

STEELVILLE, Mo. — A Cape Girardeau man pre-empted his upcoming murder trial by pleading guilty Monday to a lesser charge in connection with the 2015 shooting death of a man. Having earlier been granted a change of venue from Wayne County, Michael D. Burkman pleaded guilty to felony second-degree murder before Circuit Judge Kelly Parker in Crawford County, according to Casenet...

A woman was found dead after her husband told police he shot her Friday night in Cape Girardeau, according to a release Saturday from the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Police received a phone call from Timothy Edward Corrigan, 69, who claimed he shot his wife, Katheia Corrigan, 64, at about 9 p.m. Friday inside their home at 1944 Perryville Road ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- A sentencing date has been set for former Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson. Hutcheson will be sentenced April 29 in St. Louis on federal charges of wire fraud and for illegally possessing and transferring the means of identification of others without lawful authority and in connection with the commission of felony forgery...

SIKESTON, Mo. — A Sikeston woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly setting her own business on fire. Monica Mays, 50, is charged with first-degree arson through Scott County Court, according to Sikeston Department of Public Safety assistant chief Jim McMillen. ...