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CHARLESTON, Mo. — Two people have been arrested and face charges in connection with a shooting Labor Day weekend that injured four adults at a family event in Mississippi County. Jimarquez Jauonte Johnson, 20, of Charleston and Jimierquon Jaquantay Johnson, 21, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, are each charged with four counts of first degree assault and four counts of armed criminal action occurring on Sept. 5...

It was Sept. 11, 2001, and Jake Nesselrodt was just settling into the routine of college life at Pace University in New York City. He woke up early in his college dorm room, located not far from the New York City Hall, and prepared to go to his 9 a.m. class. He had already decided his first stop would be at a nearby shop for coffee and a doughnut...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - The New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department reported the arrest on Sept. 8 of a man considered a “dangerous felon.” Ricky Starr, 64, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of a firearm - dangerous felon. According to the probable cause statement, Starr was taken into custody after Sgt. ...

MATTHEWS, Mo. - New Madrid native Don Fields believes in investing in the local communities. Over the years, Fields and his wife, Rebecca, have owned rental property, a used car lot and a restaurant. Most recently the Fields ventured into the grocery business with the purchase of two long-time New Madrid County grocery stores...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Law enforcement is seeking an inmate that escaped custody from a Chaffee jail. According to a release from the Scott County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday afternoon, at approximately 10:59 p.m. Monday, the Sheriff’s office was requested to assist the Chaffee Police Department with an inmate who escaped custody...

Area residents flooded Downtown Sikeston Saturday night to take part in the 11th Annual Wine Fest. Attendees sampled wine from River Ridge Winer, Hemman Winery, The Boat House Winery, Primo Vino and Ludwig Farms while also enjoying music from Dr. Fever and The Venus Fly Trap, who brought a mixture of 70s and 80s funk, disco and rock...

SIKESTON — Recent surges in positive COVID-19 cases have caused some local school districts to reinstate temporary mask mandates in an effort to decrease the number of cases and quarantines among teachers and students. On Friday, the Sikeston R-6 School District alerted parents the district would implement at two-week mask requirement before considering a building closure after the district’s average daily attendance rate was at 80.24%, a high number of classrooms were without substitutes and one school building had over 5% student-and-staff-positivity rate.. ...

With eight of the nine hardest-hit counties over the past week, southeast Missouri has become the epicenter of Missouri’s COVID-19 outbreak. And the numbers are showing in local school districts. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services website, there were 65 positive cases in ages 5-19 in the Sikeston R-6 district between Aug. 18-Aug. 31...

SIKESTON — After not being able to be held in 2020 due to the pandemic, the popular Downtown Sikeston Wine Festival will return Saturday. “Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we were not able to do the event last year because the wineries were not able to come,” said Jason Davis, executive director of Historic Downtown Sikeston. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant that is killing thousands each week and jeopardizing the nation’s economic recovery...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Two people have been arrested and face charges in connection with a shooting Labor Day weekend that injured four adults at a family event in Mississippi County. Jimarquez Jauonte Johnson, 20, of Charleston and Jimierquon Jaquantay Johnson, 21, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, are each charged with four counts of first degree assault and four counts of armed criminal action occurring on Sept. 5...