Today's Headlines

News

Local

• Woman sent to prison, must repay $7.5 million in fraud case
• Area schools see jump in COVID-19 cases as county numbers near record levels 14
• Local legislators react to governor's annual address to General Assembly 3
• Colleagues recall late Southeast Missouri State professor's legacy 2
• 'Closin' the building': Cape superintendent drops snow day video 5
• SEMO director of jazz studies is JEN educator of the year

State & Regional

• Missouri Senate candidate ad falsely claims stolen election
• 62 Missouri school districts temporarily closed in January

National & International

• Biden issues new warning to Russia over invading Ukraine
• Europe considers new COVID-19 strategy: Accepting the virus
• Year 2: Biden plans more public outreach, less legislating
• Biden approval hits new low at one-year mark: AP-NORC poll
• Democrats eye new strategy after failure of voting bill
• US researchers test pig-to-human transplant in donated body
• Florida man charged with human smuggling after 4 found dead at Canada-US border
• Cut off by volcano eruption, Tongans relieved as contact restored

Sports

College

• No place like home for SEMO MBB in latest victory
• Column: Dismal season for SEMO WBB is an outlier under Patterson 2

Features

• Ralph Lauren unveils Team USA's opening Olympic uniforms

Opinion

Editorial

• Helping kids doesn't stop during a pandemic

Columns

• Americans are being sold out by government insiders

Records

Obituaries

• Barbara Arthur
• Donald Mann
• Mac Miller
• Fern Schreckenberg
• Margaret Snyder Patterson
• Ruby Steffens

Police/Fire Reports

• Cape Girardeau Police report 1/21/22
• Cape Girardeau Fire report 1/21/22

Miscellaneous

• Out of the past: Jan. 21