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Cape Girardeau

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    USPS Begins Budget Cuts in Springfield and Cape Girardeau

    ​The Springfield and Cape Girardeau mail processing centers will be consolidated this year by the United States Postal Service, at a cost of 136 positions combined. Some of those jobs may be transferred to the Kansas City and Downtown St. Louis Sorting and Processing Facilities, which are assuming ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Jacque Sue Waller Investigation Dealt Setback With Death of Alleged Killer's Father

    Jacque Sue Waller disappeared June 1.​James Clay Waller Sr., thought to be the linchpin in solving the disappearance and presumed murder of a southeastern Missouri mother seven month ago, died yesterday in a Cape Girardeau nursing home without officially giving prosecutors the testimony they crave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Lawyers for Kinder Includes Some Political Heavyweights

    Peter Kinder has friends in high places, too.​Daily RFT was just forwarded the invite to next week's "Lawyers for Kinder" fundraiser at Cafe Napoli in Clayton. The list of sponsors for the September 29 event includes several prominent Missouri attorneys-turned-political-heavies, including: Cather ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Penthouse Pet Dishes on Peter Kinder: "He Was One of My Best Customers"

    Tammy Chapman, featured in this August 1992 Penthouse spread, says Peter Kinder asked her to move into his condo -- which was paid for by his political campaign.​Tammy Chapman, the former Penthouse Pet photographed earlier this year with Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder at a south-city bar k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    The 2010 RFT News Challenge

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Obama Visits Missouri Tomorrow to Talk Biofuels and Blunt vs. Carnahan

    Image sourceAt least one Missourian knows how to welcome the POTUS with open arms.​Q: How does the Show-Me State welcome the President of the United States?A: By filing a federal lawsuit challenging the health care legislation that currently stands as the crowning achievement of his first term in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Protesters Will Return to Cathedral Basilica Sunday, This Time Without The Police Hassle

    The past four Sundays hundreds of people have gathered in front of the Cathedral Basilica in the Central West End to protest St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson's $10,000 contribution to a political campaign that helped repeal Maine's recently enacted gay marriage law.Last weekend the protesters, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    September 17, 2008

    An Arrow Runs Through It: Bowfishers take aim at Asian carp

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2008

    Download This: A 1986 Metallica Show from Cape Girardeau

    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 >>

  • Dining

    January 23, 2008

    Grub Street

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

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2007

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

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

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Two Balls, No Strikes

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

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Two Balls, No Strikes

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

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2007

    Cape Girardeau Artist Took Michael Vick to the Dogs

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

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2007

    Cape Girardeau Artist Took Michael Vick to the Dogs

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

  • Dining

    May 16, 2007

    Micro Bak’n! Artificially Flavored Bacon Strips

    49 cents
    Hucks
    535 South Kingshighway
    Cape Girardeau

  • Dining

    April 4, 2007

    Stellina Pasta Café is perfectly delicious from start to finish.

    (Now give us a bite of your sandwich.)

  • Music

    February 8, 2006

    The Dirty 30s

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

  • News

    July 21, 2004

    Is Saddam Guilty?

    Week of July 21-27, 2004

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2003

    No Wining

    Bottoming-out in Augusta

  • News

    December 15, 1999

    ON SHAKY GROUND

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

  • News

    October 27, 1999

    THE CAPEMAN

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

  • Music

    October 6, 1999

    GOOD BUZZ

    Make a beeline to Frederick's Lounge's weekly hootenanny

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