by [email protected] | Dec 15, 2011 | Crime / Courts, News
The state supreme court is looking at one of our greatest constitutional rights that has become a collision between judges and lawyers who represent poor people. The case is a test of whether public defender offices can refuse to accept more clients if they already...
by Mike Lear | Dec 15, 2011 | News, Politics / Govt
Many have suggested that more light should be shed upon the process by which the state’s House and Senate Districts are drawn. One state senator is trying to pull back the window shade. Sen. Jason Crowell (R-Cape Girardeau) has filed a Senate Joint Resolution to...
by admin | Dec 14, 2011 | News
The US Postal Service will hold a public meeting in Cape later this month to discuss its plan to move mail processing operations from its Cape distribution facility to Saint Louis. The meeting begins at 7 PM on the 29th at the Osage Center.  Closing the Richard G...
by Jessica Machetta | Dec 14, 2011 | News
A Blue Springs man who had barricaded himself in a house has been found dead after an 11-hour standoff. Sheriff’s officers say the man appears to have shot himself to death. He had taken refuge in the house after an earlier shooting incident elsewhere.
by Jessica Machetta | Dec 14, 2011 | News
A federal fugitive on the run for most of the last seven years has been caught at a Chinese restaurant in Kirksville. The United States Marshall’s service says Xiu Feng Jiang disappeared while on parole in Florida in 2005. She’d been convicted two years...
