Stories from Saturday, November 9, 2013

The tracks and street downtown were quiet in the early evening.

Leopold will play in the Class 1 state championship game at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the Show Me Center.

Leopold finished second in Class 1 after a 25-20, 25-18 loss on Saturday at the Show Me Center.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2013. There are 52 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that became known as "Kristallnacht."...

A city flood-control sales tax easily passed and a sewer fees measure narrowly won in balloting yesterday; both city officials and tax proponents say the overwhelming approval of the flood-control tax amounts to a public mandate on the need to alleviate flooding problems in Cape Girardeau...