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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Warrantless Blood Tests for DUI Suspects in Missouri Case

Cops cannot force suspected drunk drivers to give a blood sample without a warrant, according to a ruling this week in a Missouri case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision has broad implications for Fourth Amendment rights, says Tony Rothert, legal direc ... More >>

Catholic Bishops Slam Birth Control Ruling: "Pray for the Protection of Religious Liberty"

The Catholic bishops of Missouri are praying that the legal fight against federal health care mandates for birth control coverage is not over. "We now call upon all people of good will to pray for the protection of religious liberty and for defense of the First Amendment freedoms we all hold dear, ... More >>

The Best St. Louis Metal Shows in March

Looking for a good place to see flashy and exciting music played at high volume, have your mind blown by dark and powerful sounds, or just stomp around like a drunken goon with your shirt off? Then a heavy metal concert might be just the place for you. Each month I'll be offering my top picks of the ... More >>

John Cusack Should NOT Play Rush Limbaugh in Upcoming Biopic

John Cusack's production company, New Crimes, has announced it's going to make a biographical film based on the life of conservative radio firebrand (and Cape Girardeau native) Rush Limbaugh. Sounds like a fruitful idea, for Cusack is a died-in-the-wool loony liberal, while Rush is a paranoid reacti ... More >>

Schwagstock's Jimmy Tebeau Gets 30-Month Sentence for "Drug-Involved Premises"

A federal judge in Cape Girardeau sentenced St. Louis-based concert promoter James Tebeau to 30 months in prison yesterday for the crime of "maintaining a drug-involved premises" on his 350-acre farm in rural Shannon County, Missouri. Law enforcement officials closed down the farm -- known as Camp ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: July 6 to 8 (incomplete)

My word of the day calendar says today's word is "stymie," which is a word I was already plenty familiar with. Without the added push of new vocabulary, coming up with the introduction for this week's post has me in quite a stym...nah, nevermind, I'm not feeling it. It's too damned hot outside. The ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 2 to 8

In case you hadn't heard, fireworks displays are cancelled all over town this year because everything is on fire. Fair St. Louis is just about the only game left in town, which is convenient for our music-related purposes since that's also where Heart will be playing this Wednesday. Other than that, ... More >>

Kennett, MO, Goes Gator Hunting

Hunting season for most critters isn't until fall, but not in Kennett, Missouri, down in the Bootheel, where the citizenry is currently on the lookout for alligators. "We've had reports of sightings in small lakes," says Sergeant Craig Crow of the Kennett Police Department. Only one has been caught ... More >>

UPDATE: Sculptor Hard at Work on Bust of Rush Limbaugh for Missouri State Capitol

Update, March 6: More information at the end of the post, including Senator Claire McCaskill's protest and an answer to commenter Mike N's question about whether this wad of bronze is funded by taxpayer money. ------- The eagle-eyed bloggers at Fired Up! Missouri posted the news earlier this after ... More >>

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 >>

The 10 Most Heinous Crimes of 2011

2011 marked the end of an era: St. Louis is no longer the Most Dangerous City in America. Not only did our city lose the coveted number-one spot, now held by Flint, Michigan, it slipped to number four! And it looks as though the city's murder rate will decline by 30 percent from 2010. What's going o ... More >>

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 >>

Anyone Wanna Guess the Biggest Name to Attend Tammika Hubbard's Fundraiser?

​Updated 11:55 a.m. to show that the last day to register to vote for this election is tomorrow. Also with correct spelling of attribution. With less than a month before the special election, Tammika Hubbard remains the front-runner in the Fifth Ward Alderman race. She has deep political ties-- ... More >>

Peter Kinder's Campaign Spends More Than It Earns

teamkinder.com​Update 12:22 p.m. The Missouri Democratic Party reports that Jay Nixon's campaign raised $1.5 million in the third quarter to bring its cash on hand total to $4.2 million. Original post follows...The "Friends of Peter Kinder" political campaign filed its third quarter fund-raising r ... More >>

Aerotropolis -- Voices from McGurk's

Albert Samaha"I think the state legislators are correct in cutting it down to size," said Manley.​We're deep into the third week of the Missouri legislature's special session and the economic development package featuring the "St. Louis Aerotropolis" proposal is still in the midst of serious debat ... More >>

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 >>

Feds Say Clay Waller Admitted Killing His Wife; Want Him Held Without Bail

Investigators shed light on what they believe happened to Jacque Sue Waller.​Clay Waller allegedly told his father that he killed his wife, Jacque Sue Waller, according to testimony given yesterday in federal court in Cape Girardeau. Federal prosecutors say the murder was premeditated with Clay Wa ... More >>

Report: Karl Rove Raises $160,000 for Peter Kinder

In Peter Kinder terminology, Karl Rove "made it rain" Wednesday night. ​Republican strategist Karl Rove touched down in Cape Girardeau Wednesday night for a fundraiser for Lt. Governor Peter Kinder. Tickets to the dinner and discussion went for $250 to $2,500 a pop and helped raise $160,000 for th ... More >>

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 >>

Peter Kinder: Every Night's a Pantless Party?

Peter Kinder with a bartender at Verlin's, a nightspot that proclaims "every night's a pantless party!"​Yesterday, we showed you a picture of Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, grinning broadly at a bar with an unidentified blond.Today we can tell you where that photo was taken: Verlin's, a south ... More >>

Jacque Sue Waller: Major Case Squad Departs; Jackson Police Left to Solve Disappearance

Jacque Sue Waller: Missing for nearly two weeks now.​After a week and a half on the job, the Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County Major Case Squad deactivated last Friday, taking with it dozens of detectives and volunteer police officers who'd been investigating the disappearance of a Ste. Genevieve mo ... More >>

Clay Waller: "Person of Interest" in Disappearance of Wife, Jacque Sue Waller

Southeast MissourianClay Waller was last person to see his estranged wife.​Police in southeast Missouri confirmed yesterday that the husband of a woman missing since last Wednesday is a "person of interest" in her disappearance. That said, police stopped short of calling Clay Waller a "suspect" in ... More >>

South Central Regional Barista Competition: And the Winner Is...

The setup at one of the stations at the South Central Regional Barista Competition.​Several former baristas work here at Gut Check International Headquarters, and sometimes when we're really, really bored, we gather in someone's cubicle and compare war stories. Oddly enough, none of these stor ... More >>

St. Louis Suburbs Shockingly Happy, Gallup Says

Is Todd Akin your congressman? If so, you're probably pretty happy. ​The city of St. Louis may be a crime-ridden abyss. But our west-county suburbs ... whooboy, are they another story!That's latest from pollster Gallup, which (unlike those Daily Beast polls proclaiming random cities the "fattest" ... More >>

Missouri Legislators Out to Screw Restaurant Workers

Jennifer SilverbergThe Bleeding Deacon Public House: Owner Michael McLaughlin stands up for servers' right to a decent wage.​Over at Daily RFT, blogmeister Chad Garrison has a post about the various ways in which some Missouri legislators are attempting to undermine the already tenuous livelih ... More >>

Congressman Todd Akin Skipping League of Women Voters' Debate

Congresswoman JoAnn Emerson of Cape Girardeau debated her Democratic challenger, Tommy Sowers, last night. And Charlie Dooley, the St. Louis County Executive, is debating his challenger, Republican Bill Corrigan, Thursday.Todd Akin gives the League of Women Voters the runaround.​But Congressman To ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh and Koran-Burning Preacher Were Cape Girardeau High School Classmates

capecentralhigh.comLimbaugh and Jones, c/o 1969​Must be something in the water down in Cape Girardeau. How else could a town so small produce such bloviating hatemongers -- in the same year? Yep. If you haven't heard yet, Rush Limbaugh and the Rev. Terry Jones both graduated from Cape's Central Hi ... More >>

LouFest, Day One: Bottle Rockets, stephaniesid, Airborne Toxic Event

Jason StoffBottle Rockets kick out the jams. Check out our entire slideshow of LouFest Day One.​​"These are the first musical notes of Loufest!" Brian Henneman crowed, and the members of the Bottle Rockets were off, igniting the first set of St. Louis' inaugural LouFest. The BoRox wasn't on ... More >>

St. Louis Gets Just One Bid for New Casino; Koman Group Also Operates Casino Queen

Sadly, Koman's St. Louis proposal isn't called "Casino King." ​The operators of the Casino Queen in East St. Louis, Koman Group, was the only development company yesterday to submit a bid to city officials. Koman wants to build a $115-million, 120,000-square-foot facility called Celebration Casino ... More >>

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 >>

Are Some Missouri Counties Ignoring Meth Labs?

Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.​While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>

Moral of This Story: Don't Cook Meth at Work

Image sourceDo you want some fries with your meth?​Like many of us, Dennie Bratcher liked to multitask at work. Since Bratcher worked as a shift manager at a Sonic Drive-In in Cape Girardeau, he lacked access to a computer and Internet connection and so could not, as many of us do, while away the ... More >>

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 >>

As Rev. Larry Rice Looks to Expand Shelters, St. Louis Residents Continue Complaints

The Rev. Larry Rice made headlines last week when the the government denied his controversial request to convert a federal court building in Cape Girardeau into a homeless shelter. Now Rice says he plans to sue for the rights to the building. Meanwhile, here in St. Louis, Rice's New Life Evangelisti ... More >>

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

Obama in Missouri -- Independence, Missouri

Factory Ghoul: Cindy Tower's large-scale oil paintings illuminate local relics of the industrial age

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Cape Girardeau

Tooling Around

B-Sides takes a Maynard-related road trip, then heads back home with Corbeta Corbata.

Tool in Cape Girardeau: A Photo Essay

Queries

Unreal finds an angry blogger with a lot to say (most of it not suitable for work), gets expert analyses of Wash. U. students' attractiveness and gives a pop quiz to potential padres

Letters

Week of June 23, 2004

Mississippi Drifting

Twenty-eight straight days pushing freight up and down the Big Muddy -- and oh-so-slowly

What a Difference a Gay Makes

Jade Esteban Estrada tells the tales you won't find in textbooks

The Shame of Our City

Week of November 14, 2001

The Big Fix

Public schools are broke all over, so why are only St. Louis and Kansas City getting charter schools?

Cementing a Deal

A giant quarry and the world's largest cement kiln are being welcomed by Ste. Genevieve County. But the operation may leave St. Louis gasping for air.

GOOD BUZZ

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

HEDGING THEIR BETS?

Presidential candidate George W. Bush's campaign is raking in big bucks from St. Louis' wealthiest suburbs -- but those same donors are also ingratiating themselves with Democratic contenders

'SHROOM MATES

Taking to the woods with a local fungus-appreciation society