SCOTT COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - According to the Missouri Department of Transportation, a new state five-year highway construction program was approved Wednesday, but the program is only half the size of recent years.

The new program is about $600 million a year rather than the average of $1.2 billion and MoDOT says Missourians will be seeing very few new projects during the next few years.

"We've known this grim situation was coming," said Kevin Keith, Missouri Department of Transportation director, "We have fallen off a cliff."

Keith said the sharp decline in funds means the investment that supported Missouri jobs, improved roads and bridges and increased safety is in jeopardy.

SIKESTON, MO (KFVS) - The Beta Gamma chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma made a donation to the Sikeston Depot Museum recently.

Beta Gamma is a service organization of women educators.

The museum says they will use the money to promote their educational programming.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - The Cape Girardeau County Firefighters Association will present a check for $7,770 to the Burns Recovered Support Group on Wednesday, July 13.

The money will be presented at the Jackson Fire Station located at 525 South Hope Street at 6:30 p.m.

Firefighters raised the money through the Fill the Helmet fund drive during May, June and July in Cape Girardeau County.

The mission of the group is to help burn survivors in their recovery, support medical facilities in the care of burns in Missouri and to educate the public in burn awareness and prevention.

The Burns Recovered Support Group, Inc. was formed in 1983 by a group of burn survivors with the help of members of the burn care team at St.