Winds will shift out of the south tonight, with breezy conditions expected on Sunday. Those winds will be what bring us from a cooler day Saturday to a warmer day Sunday. We’ll continue to warm with some very windy conditions into Tuesday, the warmest day of the next week. A strong cold front by then will drop temperatures closer to…
We’re going to see plenty of sunshine over the weekend, but Saturday will be a bit cooler than Sunday. No precipitation is expected through the weekend and into Monday, but storms will be possible Tuesday through Thursday. A quite but cooler day on Saturday. Highs will be very close to normal with a light north breeze and plenty of sunshine….
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – House Bill 2498 would require public libraries that are authorized to levy or collect taxes to have elected board members, as opposed to volunteers. And one of the libraries that would be affected by this bill is the Cape Girardeau Public Library. “I feel like kind of negative, kind of positive, could go either way,”…
CHESTER, Il. (KBSI)- Sawyer Wilson is a 34-year-old single father, who is looking for justice for his three-year-old, nonverbal, Autistic son, Nicholas. “He was restrained they said with a plastic tablecloth.” Wilson says the superintendent, Kimberly Briggs informed him through this letter, his son Nicholas, was restrained and tied to a chair during school at the Chester Community Unit School…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – The City of Cape Girardeau alerts the public to scam callers demanding money and threatening to turn off city services. Gayle Conrad with the City of Cape says the City Utility Billing office will never call you to demand payment. “We ask you that if you do receive one of these calls to hang up,…
A quiet end to the week and weekend is expected with temperatures a little up and down. A frontal boundary moves into our area next week, bringing with it a chance for thunderstorms. Another mild day is on tap for Friday with mostly sunny skies and a breezy north wind expected. Most of us will be close to 60 for…
BOLLINGER COUNTY, Mo. (KBSI) – A Sedgwickville man faces multiple counts of child pornography. Justin Welker faces five counts of possession of child pornography – Class D felony and five counts of possession of child pornography film/video – Class B felony. In early December, the Bollinger County Sheriff’s Office received information from the FBI in reference to a report of…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – A new area code change will go into effect for many Missourians starting on March 24, 2024. The new 235 area code will be added as an overlay to the 573 regions. An overlay will alleviate the exhaustion of available telephone numbers in the 573-area code. Those who already have a 573 number will not…
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. (KBSI) – Sheriff’s deputies try to find the company or sub-contractor after stolen wire was found. James A. Avant faces charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of adult use cannabis in a motor vehicle. On February 15, at 10:45 a.m., Williamson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KBSI) – State Representative John Voss is sponsoring House Bill 2777, which he introduced on Wednesday. This bill would add two levels of technical qualifications to become a coroner in the state of Missouri. The first of those qualifications is emergency medical technician, or EMT, certification or training so that the person has a deep understanding of…
A cold front is going to bring us scattered showers and storms on Thursday. It will also bring us slightly cooler temperatures through Saturday. We warm right back up just in time for the 2nd half of the weekend and early next week. It was REALLY warm Wednesday. Above are the new record highs for the day! There will be…
CARBONDALE, Ill. (KBSI) – Police arrested a man after another man was stabbed multiple times in Carbondale. Cody W. Simon, 21, of Carbondale, faces attempted murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon charges. Carbondale police officers responded to the 900 block of East Park Street for a report of a battery in progress at 12:07 a.m. on Wednesday, February…
JACKSON, Mo. (KBSI) – Saxony Lutheran High School leaders announced the new football coach for the school’s new football team. O.J. Turner will be the new head coach. Turner will lead the Crusaders in their first year of football in just a matter of months, and he said Saxony Lutheran is the perfect fit for him. “I’m a big family…
MISSOURI (KBSI) – Dollar General announced it donated more than 1.5 million pounds of food to Missouri Feeding America food banks. The donations are a part of more than 15.2 million total pounds of food the company donated in 2023 to local food banks from DG stores and distribution centers to help address food insecurity and nourish neighbors in need….
It’s going to be very warm on Wednesday. So warm, we may see record highs! We remain mild on Thursday, then cool down a little Friday. Storms are possible Thursday, then it’ll be dry through most of the weekend. The record high for Wednesday in Cape Girardeau is 69 set in 1983. We’ll be VERY close to that record high!…
Police car lights in night time, crime scene, night patrolling the city. Abstract blurry image.PERRY COUNTY, Mo. (KBSI)- Sheriff Jason Klaus with the Perry County Sheriff’s Department says two phone calls to dispatch (911) were missed on Friday, February 16th, 2024. “We were notified that somebody called 911 and we did not answer it, and we obviously take that very…
MT. VERNON, Ill. (KBSI) – A Mt. Vernon man faces a trespassing charge after authorities were called. Dewayne E. Corbett, 44, of Mt. Vernon faces a charge of felony trespassing. Deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office assisted by officers of the Mt. Vernon Police Department responded to a report of trespassing in progress with a possible a gun that…
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (KBSI) – Students in the Poplar Bluff school district received free laptops. Mary Von-Humphry stopped by to get a laptop. “My grandson goes to Boys and Girls Club here and he received a free laptop today that he did not have at home so I’m glad for that and I’m glad for the program that sponsored this,” said…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI)- First responders are the first to make sure you’re taken care of when it comes to a trauma, but who is taking care of them. Andrew Juden with the Cape Girardeau Fire Department says the first step to getting help is recognizing there’s a problem. “There’s a lot of resources available to the first responders program,”…
GRAVES COUNTY, Ky. (KBSI) – A Marshall County man faces insurance fraud and other charges in Graves County. Travis A. Thorpe, 33, of Gilbertsville faces charges of falsely reporting an incident and fraudulent insurance acts. On January 13, Thorpe reported that his Chevrolet 2500HD Diesel pickup had been stolen from a field located on Ky Hwy 58 west of US…
CAMBRIA, Ill. (KBSI) – A man faces several charges after sheriff’s deputies say he hid in a victim’s bedroom armed with a knife in rural Cambria. Larry D. Parsons faces charges of aggravated unlawful restraint, violation of order of protection, domestic battery, interference with the reporting of domestic violence, criminal trespass to a residence, residential burglary, aggravated assault, aggravated fleeing…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – A clinical trial and partnership will be held at Gibson Center for Behavioral Change. The trial is funded by The National Institute on Drug Abuse grant for $2.1 million, and also consists of the University of Cincinnati and Spark Biomedical. The ultimate goal of the project is to increase treatment retention for patients with opioid…
CAPE GIRARDEAU Mo. (KBSI) – Firefighters responded to a fire at Red Dot Storage Facility at approximately 5:15 a.m. on February 17. Battalion Chief, Brad Dillow, says, “We had to make access through the security gate, at that point we noticed we had heavy smoke coming from about the middle part of the building area.” Firefighters were able to extinguish…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – “It’s really nice nowadays to be able to research this and find out what happened here.” What happened in Cape Girardeau during the Civil War, to be exact, which was the focus of Bill Eddleman’s presentation at the Cape Girardeau Civil War Roundtable on Sunday. “I just like history, particularly history that a lot of…