SEMO’s new “Fearlessly Forward” plan emphasizes three-year degrees, hands-on learning, workforce relevance, and student well-being, President Brad Hodson says.

SEMO’s 2026 Homecoming weekend features a Friday block party, Saturday parade and football game against Western Illinois, plus Sunday women’s soccer at Houck Field.

With 13 active data center projects across Missouri, residents are questioning energy and water use as developers also eye Southeast Missouri land.

Mounted beside key traffic hotspots in Cape Girardeau, Flock Safety’s license plate reader cameras (ALPRs) use artificial intelligence (AI) to capture point-in-time images of vehicles and convert them into searchable information, including license plate numbers, vehicle characteristics, date, time and camera location. This gives law enforcement officials a digital trail across town.

As AI continues to evolve, each of the five colleges at SEMO has had to adapt to new technology entering the lives of their students and faculty.

Cape Girardeau man Quazerious Murray, 21, was arrested by the Cape Girardeau Police Department and is now facing multiple charges in connection with the weekend shooting in downtown Cape Girardeau that left three injured and one dead.

On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the 2025 congressional map Missouri lawmakers pushed to be adopted is prohibited, and the original map created in 2022 will remain in effect for the Nov. 3 midterm election.

Payton Brown scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns as Southeast Missouri (2-2) pulled away from Central Arkansas (2-2), 27-9, on Sept.19 at Houck Stadium. SEMO opened the game when sophomore wide receiver Khylen Harris-Norman returned the opening kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown.

On the morning of Aug. 26, rural villages in Nepal were destroyed by a devastating flood that stormed down from the Himalayan Mountains. Remote villages were destroyed, and thousands of people were killed or are still missing in both China and Nepal. As of Sept. 11, 1,369 people were confirmed dead, while 5,132 were reported missing, according to NepalDisaster.com.

September 11, 2001, has become a date that will be etched in history forever. The September 11 attacks were coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States that targeted the Pentagon and World Trade Center.