Kathy Sweeney

Two Perryville men admitted that they operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90 victims of at least $3 millions over 20 years.

First Alert Investigation Update: Former Perryville financial advisors expected to plead guilty Aug. 15

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating what happened at Monday night’s city council meeting in Scott City.

Eight years after the Missouri Attorney General’s Office removed Cory Hutcheson from serving as Sheriff of Mississippi County, it’s leading a new criminal prosecution against him.

On a warm night in June 1975, 18-year-old Geneva Phelps Hastings went to an outdoor party in Butler County and never made it home.

In Perryville, Missouri, a financial planning and investment firm bearing the names of two well-known men in that community operated on the town square for more than two decades. But a few weeks ago, Johnson Niswonger Financial Resources closed its doors without warning.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control is investigating the circumstances surrounding the pursuit of a motorcycle in Cape Girardeau on March 13, 2025 that resulted in the death of the motorcyclist.

The effort to arrest a 52-year-old man in not one, but two stolen valor cases began inside a local VFW hall

Circuit Judge Benjamin Lewis says it takes a certain kind of person to be able to absorb the information he hears on a daily basis.

Our First Alert Investigation into the state of juvenile crime in southeast Missouri continues with a focus on what juvenile offices can and cannot do, along with the biggest challenges they face across our region.