Scott County News

New streets in Scott County will honor Missouri's gubernatorial history. During Tuesday's County Commission meeting, Joel Evans, county emergency management director and county developer, presented his idea for naming new streets in the unincorporated parts of the county as part of his activity summary for the month of June.

Mylia DeBerry, 16, of Cape Girardeau, helps to organize the Southeast Missouri Food Bank office Thursday.

This July 4 weekend capped off a strong season for fireworks sales, though police reported fewer violations than they normally see over the holiday.

Cape Girardeau County will apply for almost $172,000 to combat homelessness, part of $12 million set aside statewide from the stimulus bill approved by Congress in February.

Despite bearing two inches of ice atop their branches in January, the trees in Mike Leible's peach orchard have bounced back, and the peach harvest will begin any day now.

A two vehicle head-on collision slowed traffic, caused a fire, and sent four Scott County residents to the hospital.

The following entry was written between midnight and 1 a.m. Thursday morning after returning home from the Neal E. Boyd/Kenny Rogers concert in Sikeston .

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

The actions of a Sikeston Board of Municipal Utilities employee led to the quick arrest of a robbery suspect Friday afternoon.

Scott County has experienced big jail populations this year -- which means it has to pay to house the overflow in other facilities.

Some unexpected repairs and a larger-than-average paving machine combined to back up traffic on the river bridge yesterday afternoon; traffic on the Illinois side was backed up as far as Route 3 as people tried to make their way to Riverfest; on the Missouri side, traffic was snarled as far back as Sprigg Street.

Noreen Hyslop photo - Rev. Doyle Corlew has spent a lifetime in front of a classroom and behind a pulpit.

The same month that a St. Louis law firm won an actual-innocence motion in a Missouri court exonerating Joshua C. Kezer of a Benton, Mo., homicide, another lawyer at the firm began examining another Scott County murder case.

Firefighters apply water to the fire between the collapsed living room and the garage of a home on County Highway 213 near Kelso, Mo.

Fugitive murder suspect Tambra Turner waived extradition today during an appearance before a Chicago judge.

Sheriff Rick Walter says he and his girlfriend got into an argument, then Counts forced her into a vehicle at knifepoint.

A southeast Missouri man faces several charges after allegedly holding his girlfriend at knifepoint and fleeing from police.

A Scott City man shot his estranged wife Monday evening outside her rural Perry County home, Sheriff Gary Schaaf said.

Many emergency vehicles participate in the Alexis Cummins funeral procession going from Sikeston to Oran Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

A week after a wreck killed two Oran teens and left four others injured, emergency personnel and the community are still struggling to cope with the loss.