Cape Girardeau

Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Think It's Cold Today? At Least the River's Still Flowing

Yes, it's cold this week, the coldest it's been here in St. Louis in several years. What's particularly galling is that this cold is not as lovely and refreshing as we thought it would be last summer when the thermometer crawled up to 108. Remember that? Back in the good old days before global warm ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh's Inexperienced Cousin Named Cape Girardeau Prosecutor

If, for some reason, you don't think the name Limbaugh carries any juice in Cape Girardeau, consider the following news blip. On Christmas Eve, Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Christopher Limbaugh the prosecutor for Cape Girardeau County. The 28-year-old Limbaugh, who'll become the county's top law enfor ... More >>

Jimmy Tebeau Was Sentenced Today and Will Play at Old Rock House Tonight [Update]

Update, 4:50 p.m.: Jimmy Tebeau has been sentenced to "30 months on one felony count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, fined $50,000, and ordered to serve 200 hours of community service. He has also agreed to forfeit to the United States approximately 350 acres in Shannon County, Missouri, k ... More >>

5 Most Alarmist Fliers of Missouri KKK

Last week a federal judge made permanent an injunction prohibiting officials in Cape Girardeau from interfering with the flier campaign of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In his ruling, Judge John Ross sided with the white-supremacist group based out of Park Hills, Missour ... More >>

Can Cops Draw a DUI Suspect's Blood Without Consent? US Supreme Court to Hear MO Suit

Did a Missouri state trooper violate the U.S. constitution in October 2010 when he arrested a drunk driver in Cape Girardeau and drew his blood, even though the driver refused?Looks like the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will now be making the final call on whether such a blood test am ... More >>

Of Angst and Skorts: Advice to Cape Girardeau Kids with New Dress Code

High school just isn't high school without the asscracks. Kids in the Cape Girardeau public school district are grumbling this week about an excessive new dress code that will keep them looking like the cast of the Brady Bunch. Students get to choose from the following: a collared shirt or turtlen ... More >>

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10 p.m. Sunday, July 8. Lemmons, 5800 Gravois Avenue.

William Lacy Clay Shares "Most Liberal" Ranking

The public policy magazine National Journal released its annual rankings reflecting the most liberal- and conservative-voting politicians last Friday, and two Missouri lawmakers earned slots that make for interesting discussion. Rep. William Lacy Clay, who represents parts of St. Louis and north S ... More >>

Appellate Judges: Adrienne Martin's Parents Deserve Shot at Busch Settlement Money

The Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District released an opinion today declaring that George "Larry" Eby and Christine Trampler -- the parents of the late Adrienne Nicole Martin, former girlfriend of St. Louis beer scion August Busch IV -- have the right to join in on the wrongful death law ... More >>

Hijinks, Rock & Roll And An Alarmingly Large Knife: The Don't Tell Me What To Do Tour Video

Justin Johnson of Pretty Little Empire mid-stretch at a gas station.​Pretty Little Empire and Bo & the Locomotive recently returned from a nine day tour that took them to Indianapolis, Columbus, Philadelphia, New York, Asheville, Nashville, and Cape Girardeau. This isn't the first outing for e ... More >>

Confederate Shrine Vandalized in Missouri; Southern Nationalists Outraged

The Southern Nationalist Network would have the vandal know: Them fightin' words.​The Civil War ended nearly 150 years ago but North-South animosity evidently remains in Cape Girardeau where a vandal this week defaced a monument to Confederate soldiers. As the Southeast Missourian reports, someone ... More >>

Airport Commission to Vote on China Hub Today

Wikimedia CommonsSt. Louis Aerotropolis: Will it leave the gate this week?​Yesterday in Jefferson City, legislators meeting in a special session took up the controversial topic of providing $360 million in tax credits to subsidize a trade hub with China at Lambert Field. "St. Louis Aerotropolis" i ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Pushing Tea in Joplin

Rush Limbaugh is cashing in on the tea party schtick with, yes, tea.​As if that tornado wasn't bad enough, this weekend, the town of Joplin, Missouri, got a visit from Rush Limbaugh.The bombastic radio host (and Missouri native) was there to promote a new product called Two if By Tea -- a bottled ... More >>

Missouri Supreme Court to Weigh Warrantless Blood Draws for DUIs

If you're on the roadways, you may have no right to refuse a blood test, the Missouri Court of Appeals suggested in a ruling today.​Do law enforcement officers in Missouri have the right to order a blood draw if they suspect a driver is drunk -- even if they haven't gotten a judge to issue a warra ... More >>

Corps Blasts Levee South of Cairo; Ohio River Begins Receding Immediately

Army Corp of Engineers via KFVSExplosives detonate the Birds Point levee last night.​The final decision to breach the Birds Point levee along the Mississippi River came at 5 p.m. yesterday. Five hours later, explosives lit up the night sky and shook the earth as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers de ... More >>

Peter Kinder's Car Stolen, Torched

Not the actual car stolen from Missouri's lieutenant governor​It seems like one disgruntled Missourian has reeeeally taken offense to Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's recent use of taxpayer's money. Either that, or the politician simply drives the type of car that's attractive to thieves. Both scenario ... More >>

Kid from Vienna, IL, Won $5,000 For Painting This

Beating out 27,000 other inferior kids (ages kindergarten through high school) from all 50 states, a teen living across the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau emerged victorious in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Art contest on Friday. The aptly-named Abraham Hunter, a 17-year-old from Vienna, Illi ... More >>

Cape Girardeau Could Have Missouri's First Smoke-Free Casino Following April 5 Vote

Cape Girardeau rolls the dice on smoking next week.​Here's an interesting tidbit out of Cape Girardeau where voters next week will be asked to weigh in on a smoking ban for bars, restaurants and most places open to the public. This week the group pushing for the ban, Smoke-Free Cape, filed paperwo ... More >>

The 2010 RFT News Challenge

McGinty Jewelers Closing Central West End Shop

Three years ago, Chuck and Laura McGinty opened a second branch of their Cape Girardeau jewelry shop, called McGinty Jewelers on the Plaza, in St. Louis' Central West End.The Maryland Plaza is losing its jeweler.​But in January, the McGintys will be closing their doors for good. Laura McGinty tell ... More >>

Cape Girardeau Chosen for Casino

Despite today's news, the rendering of the Cape Girardeau casino has always included fireworks.​The Missouri Gaming Commission this morning announced that it has chosen Cape Girardeau to receive the states 13th and final gaming license. The southeastern Missouri city beat out competing bids from K ... More >>

Could Smoking Ban Kill Cape Girardeau Casino? Meanwhile, St. Louis Bid Gets Stronger

cdc.org​The Missouri Gaming Commission is expected to announce Wednesday which city will be awarded the state's 13th and final casino license. Last week, state regulators issued a report favoring Cape Girardeau over proposals for St. Louis and Kansas City. But that report apparently did not c ... More >>

Midgets Can't Wrestle in Missouri Without a License, Says State Agency

Image viaSorry lil' guys, gotta test your blood before you bludgeon each other.​So the Extreme Midget Wrestling Federation event slated for Thursday in Cape Girardeau is probably canceled. Yeah. That's because (according to the Southeast Missourian) the state of Missouri has declared thatlittle p ... More >>

USA Today Names Great Burger Joint in Missouri (All Those Other States, Too)

USA Today, as part of its "Great American Bites," recently asked experts from each state and Washington, D.C., to choose a great burger. For Missouri, Show-Me Missouri magazine editor Gary Figgins selected Schindler's Tavern, which is located outside Benton, southwest of Cape Girardeau:Others may cl ... More >>

"Redneck Games" on July 4th in Cape Girardeau to Feature Toilet-Seat Horseshoes

Image viaDon't sit on it, Lonnie, throw the damn thing!​In what might be interpreted as an amusing gesture of regional self-deprecation, our Missouri brethren down in Cape Girardeau will be raising money for veterans by holding the "Redneck Games" on the Fourth of July weekend.This olympiad of hoo ... More >>

Missouri Poised to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Busts For Fourth Straight Year

Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.​Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>

Map: The Mississippi River is a Meandering Stream, Indeed

Here's a cool map of the course of the Mississippi River over the past 10,000 years as it has flowed from Cape Girardeau to Donaldsonville, Louisiana. ​Howard N. Fisk, a U.S. Army Corp of Engineers consultant, rendered the illustration above back in 1944. You can view (and download) more of his ma ... More >>

Florence Poe, Oldest Missourian, Dies at 112

Image sourceFlorence Poe, until Sunday the oldest living Missourian, in 2006, on her 109th birthday.​Florence Poe, who was the oldest person in Missouri and the seventh-oldest person in the United States, died Sunday, March 21, in Cape Girardeau after suffering a stroke a week earlier. She was 112 ... More >>

Republican Senators Line Up Bills to Drug Test the Poor

All of you on drugs, please step aside.​A slate of Republican state senators have each introduced bills that would require certain welfare recipients in Missouri to be drug tested before receiving state aid. The senators, all from rural Missouri, include:Jack Goodman, Mt. VernonGary Nodler, Joplin ... More >>

FoodWire: Learn Barbecue from the Master, Mike Mills, Saturday, 1.16

Jennifer Silverberg​Barbecue legend Mike Mills, Memphis in May champion and owner of 17th Street Bar & Grill, is teaching a class on barbecue from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, January 16. The class will be held at the Ole Hickory Test Kitchen at 333 North Main Street in Cape Girardeau. The cost -- ... More >>

MP3: Surtsey, "I Am In Your Name" and "How Time Sorts Things"

Apologies for spacing on this last Friday. Here are two MP3s from the band Surtsey. Although based in Cape Girardeau, the trio has started earning more gigs in St. Louis as of late. (In fact, the next one is Wednesday, November 4, at Cicero's with It's All About the Benjamins and Sink the Bismark.) ... More >>

How St. Louis Area Congressmen Voted on Last Week's Hate Crime Bill

Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student murdered in 1998 and an inspiration for the revised hate-crimes law.​You've probably heard by now how the House of Representatives passed a measure last week that broadens the definition of a "hate crime" to include incidents committed because of the ... More >>

Local Blogger Hijacks McCaskill's Healthcare Forum Appears on Fox News to Talk About It

​Dana Loesch local blogger (Mamalouges), conservative talk show host, and right-wing Tea Party organizer marshaled a group of Teabaggers to turn a public forum on healthcare reform organized by Senator Claire McCaskill 's office into a protest against healthcare reform. I think the forum was actua ... More >>

FoodWire: My Daddy's Cheesecake Bakery & Cafe Opens Tomorrow

Opening tomorrow morning at 6451 Clayton Road is My Daddy's Cheesecake Bakery & Cafe, a Cape Girardeau-based business. Here, from the company's own Web site, is the story behind the name:My Daddy's Cheesecake's rich, creamy cheesecake always won well deserved raves from Professor Tom Harte's fa ... More >>

The Monads: Outtakes from the Interview about Ornery, its CD release show

Download This: A 1986 Metallica Show from Cape Girardeau

Grub Street

Gastropub, shmastropub. Newstead Tower Public House is Ian's kind of bar.

Timothy Krajcir: Inside the Mind of a Serial Rapist and Murderer

Two Balls, No Strikes

Two Balls, No Strikes

Cape Girardeau Artist Took Michael Vick to the Dogs

Cape Girardeau Artist Took Michael Vick to the Dogs

Micro Bak’n! Artificially Flavored Bacon Strips

49 cents
Hucks
535 South Kingshighway
Cape Girardeau

Stellina Pasta Café is perfectly delicious from start to finish.

(Now give us a bite of your sandwich.)

The Dirty 30s

Sunday, February 12, at the Red Sea (6511 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Is Saddam Guilty?

Week of July 21-27, 2004

No Wining

Bottoming-out in Augusta

ON SHAKY GROUND

The earthquake hazard here may be greater than you think. And planning for it is less than you'd expect.

THE CAPEMAN

Cape Girardeau state Sen. Peter Kinder takes more than an academic interest in St. Louis' public schools