Madison News

The Columbia Parks & Recreation department's Blue Thunder Track Club competed in the AAU Missouri Valley District Championships track meet June 20-21 in Topeka, Kan.

Paced by the construction of a nine-unit motel and by construction of 13 new residences, building permits totaling $218,660 have been issued by the city of Cape Girardeau within the past two weeks; the new, ...

Thelma Iona Niblack Anderson, Ada, celebrated her 104th birthday Saturday, April 4, with a celebration at Ada Retirement and Care Center. via AdaEveningNews.com - Ada, Oklahoma

A 50-year-old Madison man is dead after his vehicle was hit by a train early Sunday in Monroe County. via KMOV-TV Saint Louis

The Humane Society of Missouri is rescuing four dozen dogs and several horses believed to be endangered on a property in northeast Missouri. via KRCG-TV Jefferson City

The past few months have seen a rash of fatal shootings in the Southeast Missouri area. via Southeast Missourian

“One in particular (could be) prosecuted on the federal level”

St. Francois County once again has the distinction of being third in the state when it comes to the number of meth lab busts. via Daily Journal

"Mathew & Amanda" , by Lowell Handler. Looking at Lowell Handler's The Vanishing: Photographs from a Small Midwestern Town, currently on display at Through This Lens, one appreciates the documentary ... via Independent Weekly

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported an accident that occurred at 2:20 P.M. on December 31, 2007 on County 219, four miles Northwest of Fredericktown. via Democrat News

Jean Gardner of Anabel visits the site of a fatal house fire yesterday in rural Monroe County, where her granddaughters, Sara Brown, 15, and Maria Brown, 7, both died. via Columbia Daily Tribune

“This is a good thing (Neighborhood Commercial) they've created”

A public hearing on a request to rezone 678 N. Madison from RS-2 Residential to NC Neighborhood Commercial is set for Thursday. via Lebanon Daily Record

Two sisters died in a house fire early Tuesday morning. The Monroe County girls were trapped during a house fire on the second floor of their home. via KOMU-TV Columbia

Two girls died early today in a rural Monroe County house fire. Don Shrubshell photo Plastic flowers sit at the edge of the driveway that leads to Sara and Maria Brown's burned home about 13 miles south of ... via Columbia Daily Tribune

Authorities said two children are dead after a house fire in rural Monroe County. via Columbia Daily Tribune

News release from Missouri State Highway Patrol in Macon, Thursday October 18, 2007: On Thursday, October 18, 2007, at approximately 12:15 a.m., an apparent tornado struck a mobile home, located on Missouri ... via KHQA-TV Quincy

News release from Missouri State Highway Patrol in Macon, Thursday October 18, 2007: On Thursday, October 18, 2007, at approximately 12:15 a.m., an apparent tornado struck a mobile home, located on Missouri ... via KHQA-TV Quincy

Those who handle livestock know the problems associated with controlling animals. via Hannibal Courier-Post

“We are of that generation that grew up on westerns in the theater and Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza on television. And there's Lewis and Clark. In some ways, I think I know more about American history than I do about my own country's.”

By Jim Low - Paddling the entire length of the Missouri River appealed to this Australian pair's sense of adventure. via Kansas City InfoZine