Kathy Sweeney
Anchor and Reporter at KFVS-TV (Cape Girardeau, MO)
Anchor, reporter for KFVS in Cape Girardeau. Life = coffee, a good Prince song, a little attitude. living the dream.
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
kfvs12.com | Kathy Sweeney
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - There will not be a change of prosecutor in the Mischelle Lawless murder case. Court records from Greene County, Missouri show the judge in Leon Lamb’s case has denied a request by Lamb’s lawyer to disqualify Allen Moss as special prosecutor. A judge appointed Moss to the Lawless case two years ago this month. Moss charged Lamb in December of 2024 with first-degree murder in the November 1992 shooting death of Lawless.
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1 month ago |
kfvs12.com | Kathy Sweeney
MISSISSIPPI COUNTY , Mo. (KFVS) - 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. The 41-year-old Hutcheson now faces multiple felony charges amid allegations he had sex with an underage girl more than a decade ago. Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office filed the case against Hutcheson on Wednesday.
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1 month ago |
kfvs12.com | Kathy Sweeney
BUTLER COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - 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. Her family has waited 50 years to find out who killed Geneva, and why. Before I update you on her case, I want to share some heartbreaking news for the Phelps family. Geneva’s mom, Shirley Phelps, passed away on Mother’s Day evening, just a few weeks shy of her 89th birthday.
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1 month ago |
kfvs12.com | Kathy Sweeney
PERRYVILLE, Mo. (KFVS) - When you do business in your hometown, the name on the sign often means you’re spending your money with someone you know and trust. 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.
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2 months ago |
kfvs12.com | Kathy Sweeney
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - 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. That’s according to Sgt. Clark Parrott, who says they are investigating any violations of law in connection with the pursuit.
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