New Madrid County News

Governor Jay Nixon was on hand Thursday to dedicate a new warehouse that will, according to Nixon, provide an economic boost to agriculture, transportation and other industries in Southeast Missouri.

Two New Madrid County residents will serve on state boards following their appointments by Gov.

A recently amended law makes it illegal for Missourians to keep an energetic -- yet harmless -- snake mostly found in sand prairies in Scott, New Madrid and Mississippi counties.

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

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.

The Sikeston Department of Public Safety and the SEMO Drug Task Force arrested two New Madrid County residents for attempting to manufacture methamphetamine.

Many Missouri farmers are seeing bumper crop yields this year but area cotton farmers would be happy just to be able to get their crops out of the field.

Beginning Thursday, the H1N1 nasal FluMist will be available to some Southeast Missouri residents.

A former New Madrid County official is charged with three counts of stealing from those under her care.

New national exposure on a brutal double murder has southeast Missouri investigators headed back to South Carolina.

He now owns a small business and this week announced his candidacy to run as a republican for the 161st district State Representative seat, currently held by democrat Steve Hodges.

It has been more than a decade since Sherri Ann Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter, Megan Elizabeth, were found dead at their home in rural southeast Missouri.

It seems like Almost Yesterday that a student from Risco, Missouri won second place in the 2009 National History Day Competition at the University of Maryland.

A man convicted of hate crime charges for vandalizing the Islamic Center in Cape Girardeau in June was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday.

A man convicted of hate crime charges for vandalizing the Islamic Center in Cape Girardeau in June was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday.

The youngsters raced across the playground, gathering up discarded wrappers and empty cans.

The bridge on Route N at Cline's Island is the next one to be rebuilt in Stoddard County in the Early Start phase of the Safe and Sound Bridges program by the Missouri Department of Transportation .

Two from Morehouse were killed and an Essex mother and son sustained moderate injuries in a Tuesday evening wreck on Highway 60 in New Madrid County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

A former Stoddard County Sheriff's deputy suspected of killing a woman in 1979 died over the weekend, closing the case! Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton pronounced 61-year-old Max Ellison dead Saturday afternoon at Saint Francis Medical Center.

A 16 year old student athlete has died after collapsing during football practice yesterday, according to New Madrid County Coroner Jimmy McSpadden.