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Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary will hold a ground-breaking ceremony for its new facility Thursday, May 9. The event will be at 10 a.m. at the organization's location, 185 Cree Lane in Jackson. Plans call for the facility to be complete by January....

It has been almost three weeks since Taylor Swift released her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, on April 19. According to www.billboard.com, the album was streamed over 1.76 billion times worldwide in its first week, breaking the...

The Public Works Department and Alliance Water Resources outlined years worth of improvements needed for the city’s water treatment plant and distribution system to the City Council on Monday, May 6...

The Jackson Board of Aldermen annexed and rezoned a parcel of land containing the future site of Trussworks Jackson LLC during its Monday, May 6, meeting...

Oak Ridge’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter received national honors at the 96th annual Missouri State FFA Convention...

A fire started by an electrical issue destroyed a Scott City home and has displaced a family of five...

A late-night traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a convicted thief and the seizure of stolen goods from a storage unit as well as methamphetamine, police say...

Route C in Scott County — between Highway 91 and Route H near Morley — will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as construction crews make pavement repairs. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, the...

Today is Wednesday, May 8, the 129th day of 2024. There are 237 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 8, 1996, South Africa took another step from apartheid to democracy by adopting a constitution that guaranteed equal rights...

Election equipment companies will showcase the security and operations of their latest machines during hourlong public demonstrations. ...

Cape Girardeau City Council members approved a high-density lime system from Chemco Systems L.P. for Cape Rock Water Treatment Plant No. 1 on Monday, May 6, in the “first step” in improvements for the facility and the city’s entire water system. The...

Cape Girardeau Public Schools is seeking information from community organizations — such as churches, local businesses and not-for-profits — providing assistance and resources during the summer to help students and families in need. The district is...

The Cape Girardeau County Commission honored two organizations with special commemorative proclamations. ,,,

Megan Henson, a licensed practical nurse (LPN), lives in Bloomfield. She works there too, sometimes, but other times her job takes her to Dexter, Kennett, Cape Girardeau or wherever any of the hundreds of patients she has served live. Henson is a...

Saint Francis Healthcare System hospice nurses' jobs aren’t just caring for patients in their last period of their lives but also caring for their families days and years after. Bernadette Hannaford and Anna Hughes serve as nurses in the hospice...

Chaffee Nursing Center is home to around 100 faculty and staff members. One of these is Katie Clover, a licensed practical nurse (LPN). Clover has worked at the Chaffee Nursing Center for two and a half years. Clover did not always know what she...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15% of adults — approximately 37 million people — in the United States suffer from chronic kidney disease, which can lead to end-stage renal disease or kidney failure, requiring dialysis...

The Rev. Geneva Allen-Patterson and Brock Freeman, both of Cape Girardeau, were elected as delegates for the Democratic National Convention at Missouri’s 8th Congressional District Convention on Sunday, May 5, at the Patterson Community Center in...

A Cape Girardeau man is in jail on two $10,000 bonds after police say the man barricaded himself in an attic for more than an hour while surrounded by police. Jason S. Jones Sr., 44, was charged with the Class A misdemeanor of resisting/interfering...

Southeast Missouri State University began sending official financial aid offers to prospective students for the 2024-25 academic year this week after the implementation of a new version of FAFSA delayed processing of financial aid information....

Today is Tuesday, May 7, the 128th day of 2024. There are 238 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 7, 1945, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War...

Visitors traveled across downtown Cape Girardeau on Thursday to view available properties for new commercial enterprises during Old Town Cape Inc.'s fifth annual open house event. ...

Doug Koch, Southeast Missouri State University vice provost and dean of Graduate Studies, has been named interim provost beginning Saturday, June 1. ...

Today is Monday, May 6, the 127th day of 2024. There are 239 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New...

Today is Sunday, May 5, the 126th day of 2024. There are 240 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard...