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SB I-55 in New Madrid County Reduced for Pavement Repairs
SIKESTON— Southbound Interstate 55 in New Madrid County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of roadway is located from mile marker 66 to mile marker 58 near Matthews, Missouri. Weather permitting, work...
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NEWS
VFW Essay Contest underway
CENTERVILLE, Mo. (News First) - An important deadline is approaching for high school and middle school students. Veterans of Foreign Wars offers significant college scholarship opportunities from...
City of Viburnum gets first full-time pro daycare center
VIBURNUM (News First) - The City of Viburnum has never had a full-time professional daycare center since the town was first incorporated in 1967. That has finally changed this week because We Care...
Flu season is underway
VIBURNUM (News First) - Flu season has arrived once again. The best defense against getting the flu is getting a simple flu shot. Amber Dotson is an R.N. and the Vaccine Clinic Coordinator at...
Bonne Terre man injured in motorcycle accident
ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, Mo. (News First) - A man from Bonne Terre was injured in a motorcycle accident early Sunday morning in St. Francois County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash...
Two teens injured in Madison County accident
MADISON COUNTY, Mo. (News First) - Two teenagers from Poplar Bluff were injured in a one-car crash early Sunday morning in Madison County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the...
Deer causes two-vehicle accident in Perry County
PERRY COUNTY, Mo. (News First) - A man from Benton, Missouri was injured Monday morning in a two-vehicle accident in Perry County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident took place on...
Car plows through Golden Corral restaurant in St. Louis
ST LOUIS (News First) - A white SUV plowed through Golden Corral restaurant on Lindbergh Blvd in St. Louis while patrons ate around 10:45 this morning (Sat, Oct 12th). Eyewitnesses report that an...
SB I-55 in New Madrid County Reduced for Pavement Repairs
SIKESTON— Southbound Interstate 55 in New Madrid County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of roadway is...
Valley schools enjoy E-sports
CAELONIA, Mo. (News First) - E-Sports has become a popular activity at some area high schools the last few years. The Valley School District has had E-Sports just a couple years now. Superintendent...
Help the Hungry Bake Sale coming up in Farmington
FARMINGTON, Mo. (News First) - This year’s Help the Hungry Bake Sale in Farmington is still a few weeks away but organizers held a tune-up event on Friday and it was quite the success. It was the...
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SB I-55 in New Madrid County Reduced for Pavement Repairs
SIKESTON— Southbound Interstate 55 in New Madrid County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of roadway is located from mile marker 66 to mile marker 58 near Matthews,...
Traffic Advisory: Speed Reduction Work Taking Place on Ohio River ‘Cairo’ Bridge
Expect lane closures Monday, Oct. 7 PADUCAH, Ky. (Oct. 6, 2024) – For the safety of motorists crossing the Ohio River into Illinois, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will be making changes to reduce speeds on the Ohio River "Cairo" Bridge, which carries...
MO Congressman Jason Smith shares support for Trump
WASHINGTON, DC (News First) - Congressman Jason Smith, representing Missouri's Eighth Congressional District, is vowing support to Donald Trump's second presidential campaign. In a news release on Friday (Oct 4th), Smith discusses the tension in the Middle East and...
Dorena-Hickman Ferry is Open
The Dorena-Hickman Ferry is returned to operating on it's normal schedule.
Southeast Missouri Felon Caught Twice with Guns, Drugs Sentenced to 110 Months in Prison
CAPE GIRARDEAU – U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Thursday sentenced a convicted felon who was caught twice with guns and drugs to 110 months in prison. Joshua Allen Morris, 39, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau in June to one count of...
Remnants of Hurricane Helene spiral into our region.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson The remnants of Hurricane Helene are moving through Georgia and the Carolinas. It will spiral into our region today and tonight. You can see it on the National Hurricane Center's track forecast map. It will be a tropical depression...
Widespread rain is on the way.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson The remnants of Hurricane Helene will move into our region tonight and continue into the weekend. Here is the latest track forecast. The D over our region means tropical depression. I am forecasting widespread rain to arrive tonight...
A widespread rain event will develop Thursday night into Saturday.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson The remnants of Hurricane Helene will move into our region later this week. You can see that on this National Hurricane Center storm track map. The D stands for tropical depression. A widespread rain event will move into our region...
Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor, who wanted the death sentence commuted to life in prison. Marcellus...
NATIONAL NEWS
Disabled voters claim it’s hard to vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report from Rutgers University estimates that about 40.2 million...
Mega Millions tickets rise to $5
ATLANTA (News First) - The cost of a Mega Millions lottery ticket will soon more than double but...
A dangerous hurricane is forming in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson Well, here we go again. Another hurricane is forming in the...
Prosecutors lay out new evidence in Trump election case, accuse him of having ‘resorted to crimes’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020...
Helene’s flooding swept away 11 workers at a Tennessee factory. Now the state is investigating
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee state authorities said Wednesday they were investigating the...
The final day for the Oakland Athletics arrives ahead of next season’s move away from the Bay
By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — When manager Mark Kotsay removed his Oakland jersey...