Stories from Saturday, November 9, 2024

Southeast Missourians are digging for cash in this weekend’s headlines. Strategies range from prospecting for uranium in 1949, to forging checks in 1924 and pushing a factory to reopen in 1974.

Officers conducted a traffic stop Saturday, Nov. 9, near the intersection of west Pine Street and north 5th Street, and during the course of the investigation that followed, the operator fled, with the stopped vehicle, at high speed. A pursuit followed, but was eventually terminated out of concern for public safety. A suspect was identified and this investigation is ongoing...