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Tenth annual Tour de Corn

Submitted by Amber Ruch, KFVS12 County News Web Producer
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011, 10:00am
Tenth annual Tour de Corn

EAST PRAIRIE, MO (KFVS) - The 10th Annual Tour de Corn bicycle ride will be on Saturday, June 25.

The tour starts at 7:30 a.m. and cyclists have a choice of four routes: 15 miles, 30 miles, 60 miles and 100 miles.

This year the charities include the Juvenile Diabetes Association, the East Prairie Senior Citizen Nutrition Center and other local charities.

In the 2010 ride, over 800 cyclists from 14 states participated.

The Tour de Corn will be held in conjunction with East Prairie's Sweetcorn Festival.

For more information or to register online, you can visit the tour's website.

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Farmers lose $85 million in destroyed crops

Submitted by Amber Ruch, KFVS12 County News Web Producer
Monday, June 20th, 2011, 5:51pm
Farmers lose $85 million in destroyed crops

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - It is estimated that farmers have lost around $85 million in destroyed crops because of the activation of the New Madrid Floodway Plan on the Mississippi River at Birds Point.

University of Missouri economists say that the loss will climb to about $156.7 million when they factor in other economic changes.

The international levee breach flooded 130,000 acres and damaged or destroyed houses in southeastern Missouri.

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Rte. D to close for pipe replacement

Submitted by Amber Ruch, KFVS12 County News Web Producer
Monday, June 20th, 2011, 3:00pm
Rte. D to close for pipe replacement

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - Route D will be closed in Mississippi County while the Missouri Department of Transportation works to replace pipes under the road.

The road will be closed between Marshall Lane and Route 77.

Weather permitting, crews will be working Tuesday, June 21 from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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MoDOT, police launch HEAT is on campaign

Submitted by Amber Ruch, KFVS12 County News Web Producer
Monday, June 20th, 2011, 12:26pm
MoDOT, police launch HEAT is on campaign

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - The Highway Enforcement Action Teams campaign will start June 21 and run through September 22.

According to MoDOT, for the past three summers Missouri law enforcement has held the HEAT campaign to make Missouri roads safer in the summer. MoDOT says during the summer months there is an increase in traffic-related accidents and fatalities.

The three-month campaign will kick off with an Interstate 70 corridor project June 24 through 25. Drivers in that area will see more police officers from 6 a.m. on June 24 to 6 a.m.

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Ceremony for missing, unidentified in Missouri

Submitted by KFVS Web Staff
Friday, June 17th, 2011, 3:10pm

Several missing and unidentified people in southeast Missouri are being honored at a ceremony at the state capitol Friday.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, there are almost 50 missing children in Missouri.

The families of the missing will head to Jefferson City for Missing and Unidentified Persons Awareness Day.

One of those missing children is Elizabeth Gill.  Gill was last seen 46 years ago in January of 1965.  She was in the front yard of her home on Lorimer Street in Cape Girardeau.  Her family still continues to search for her all these years later.

Another case is that of Cheryl Ann Scherer of Scott County.  Thirty-two years after the then 19-year-old Scherer disappeared, her mother says she's finally found hope she'll get the closure she's looking for.  Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter says his office gets several leads every year and investigate everyone.

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MoDOT survey on work zones

Submitted by Amber Ruch, KFVS12 County News Web Producer
Friday, June 17th, 2011, 10:00am
MoDOT survey on work zones

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Transportation is asking drivers who have traveled through a work zone recently to take their survey.

The survey asks questions like where the work zone you were driving through was located, when and the conditions.

You can find the survey by clicking here.

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Corps begins Birds Point levee repairs

Submitted by KFVS Web Staff
Thursday, June 16th, 2011, 5:55pm

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is beginning repairs to the breach levee at the Birds Point - New Madrid Floodway frontline levee.

Workers were mobilized Thursday with work to begin Thursday afternoon.

Repairs will be made to the three intentionally breached sections of levee and repairs areas impacting by overtopping.

The main purpose of the construction work is to establish a safe road for official use over areas of the frontline levee, according to Jim Pogue, Corps' Memphis District spokesman. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin immediate repairs to a Mississippi River levee that it intentionally breached during flooding earlier this spring.

Gov. Jay Nixon released the following statement regarding the decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild the levee along the Mississippi River at sites of the three intentional breaches in southeast Missouri:

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