Cape Girardeau voters will head to the polls on August 5th to decide on a key issue—whether to allow higher water rate increases to help fund improvements to the city’s water system.

In Missouri, more than 120,000 seniors live with Alzheimer’s disease, and to care for them, their families provide over 350 million hours of unpaid support each year.

School cafeterias may be closed for the summer, but help is still on the table for Missouri families. Through LINC’s Caring Communities initiative, free meals are being served to kids younger than 18 at schools, churches, parks, and other familiar neighborhood sites.

The Missouri National Education Association hopes to stop the use of the state’s general revenue to fund private school scholarships.

The 93rd annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors took place June 19-22 in Tampa, Florida.

SEMO Anthropology students and faculty helped identify remains found in 2022 near Portageville, Missouri, solving a cold case and bringing closure to the family of missing Indiana man Robert J. Eaton.

The Cape Girardeau Police announced in a social media update that Nathaniel (Nate) Hubert had been located safe in Shannon County, Missouri. He was found on the afternoon of June 27 and had reportedly been drinking from a stream and had not eaten in several days.

A federal decision to cut millions in gun-violence prevention grants is drawing criticism in Missouri and beyond. The U.S. Department of Justice recently terminated more than 370 public safety grants - a move that’s already impacting efforts in cities such as St. Louis. Comments from Chris Sullivan, E. Desmond Lee professor of youth crime and violence, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and the department chair for criminology and criminal justice.

SEMO unveils $1.5 million in upgrades and a new name for its Police Academy, aiming to modernize training, boost student focus, and expand regional law enforcement collaboration.

SEMO’s Board of Governors reviewed new campus partnerships in medicine, agriculture, and STEM, unveiled the Vollink Family Observatory, and announced updates to the Police Academy during their June 17 meeting.