In-person voting for this year's presidential election began Friday, a milestone that kicked off a six-week sprint to Election Day after a summer of political turmoil. Voters lined up to cast their ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand. The board voted 3-2 to approve the rule, ...

Shawn Stockard, 53, was sentenced to 72 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig for buying and selling guns on Tuesday, Sept. 17. According to the Office of the U.S. Attorney ...

Charlotte Collier, an eighth-grade student at St. Augustine School in Kelso, was recently awarded a Leaders of Hope Award for her acts of kindness and community service. The Leaders of Hope Awards are ...

Ella Mae Amelunke, 83, of Whitewater passed away Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, at Advance Assisted Living in Advance. She was born Jan. 15, 1941, in Whitewater, daughter of Leonard and Lucille Chapman ...

A Cape Girardeau mother is organizing an event to recognize people lost in tragedies. Donna Colyer-Jones lost her daughter, Tesquonna Hill, to a homicide in St. Louis on Aug. 10, she said. The event ...

Cape Girardeau has been drier, but not by much; since Aug. 9, only 0.03 of an inch of rain has been recored at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport; this comes in a close second behind 46 rainless days ...

The Wall Street Journal reported that home values rose for the second consecutive month in June, driving the national median existing home price to $426,900. The Journal pointed to a combination of ...

Southeast Missouri State University has begun its search for the school's 19th president. Carlos Vargas will have led the university for a decade when his tenure as president ends next summer. He will ...

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of the idea that protective tariffs can restore America's economic greatness, based on the interpretation that they fueled our growth in the 19th century ...

Mark Thompson Leonard, 71, of Abita Springs passed away Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, at his home surrounded by family, friends and dogs. Mark was born Oct. 29, 1952, in Cape Girardeau to Paul J. and Jane ...

Ronda Kay Ertman, 75, of rural Jackson passed away Tue. 17, 2024. She was born Nov. 15, 1948, in Cape Girardeau to Alonzo and Mary Hines Tarr. Ronda worked 14 years at Lenco in Jackson. In 2005, she ...