Stories from Saturday, July 27, 2024

Clear, distinct packaging and warning labels are taken for granted today. Not so in 1924, when a Poplar Bluff man had a brush with death after mistaking a container of insecticide for his Epsom salts. The rest of this weekend’s newspapers held local sports, operatic honorees and theatrical preparations for the 1949 Butler County Centennial.

The City of Cape Girardeau’s first Gun Violence Task Force meeting focused on an introduction to work being done by the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri to prevent gun violence and the Cape Girardeau Police Department’s Gun Crime Taskforce and overview of crime data. ...

Officers made contact Saturday, July 27, with a victim at the front desk of the police station about his spouse assaulting him. Contact was made with the spouse and she was highly intoxicated, according to the report. Neither party wished to pursue charges...