Bollinger County News

A southeast Missouri man is charged with statutory rape and child molestation in a case where authorities now admit they kept the wrong man in jail for eight months.

A Patton, Mo., man faces statutory rape and child molestation charges in a case where authorities admit they kept the wrong man in jail for eight months based on false testimony from the victim.

Firefighters from Sedgewickville, Millersville, North Bollinger and Marble Hill fire districts responded to a fire at the home of Paula Bright just after 7 a.m. Friday, about four miles east of Sedgewickville, Mo.

John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday.

This is the "little pup" that I wrote about earlier this year. He was dumped in the Arab, Mo.

A Zalma man was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge in connection with a crash in which his passenger was killed.

If people stop to smell the roses in spring, then fall is the time they stop and see the leaves.

Mike McCoy photo The cut in bridge repair funding leaves some Stoddard County bridges that are in disrepair without any hope for replacement in the near future.

Two suspects have been arrested in the shooting deaths of a 15-year-old boy and his mother.

A truck passes over Flora Creek on County Road 634 north Friday morning, October 23, 2009, in eastern Cape Girardeau county.

Ira Oris Biffle, who grew up on farms in Bollinger County, became an early aviation pioneer, helping initiate the Army Air Service and teaching famed pilot Charles Lindbergh to fly.

A Marble Hill, Mo., man was sentenced to prison on firearms charges in federal court in Cape Girardeau today, according to a news release from Federal Prosecutor Michael W. Reap's office.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt.

University of Missouri Extension is offering a grape growers short course on October 26, November 2 and November 9 from 6 to 9:30 pm at the Perryville Career Center Multipurpose Room.

The Bollinger County Health Center gave more than 650 seasonal flu shots during a one-day clinic at the end of September, the largest response it ever had, said director Beverly Piepenbrok.

Marble Hill aldermen Monday night gave tentative approval to let the Bollinger County Memorial Wall Committee go ahead with plans to build a veterans' memorial in Railroad Park, and to put up a sign indicating that the park will be the memorial's future site.

The Chaffee Lumber Co., owned by the Pfefferkorn family for more than 70 years, will close its doors some time in November, says owner Paul Pfefferkorn.

Storms and showers have dumped anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of rain across Southeast Missouri since Thursday morning, according to measurements taken by National Weather Service cooperative observers and radar rainfall estimates.

Do you think it would be more dangerous to drive in the country or the city? A new study by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration may surprise you.

Vickery named area manager for SBA in Cape Girardeau Bill Vickery is the new area manager for the U.S. Small Business Administration alternate work site in Cape Girardeau.