CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - Midamerica Hotels Corporation of Cape Girardeau, announced plans Friday to build a new hotel in Cape Girardeau.

The company has entered into an agreement with the Hilton Corporation for the facility to be an 80-room Hampton Inn.

Midamerica opened the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Cape Girardeau in 2005.

Officials say the addition of a Hampton Inn to this complex will continue to make Cape Girardeau a preferred overnight stop for thousands of travelers.

According to the company, the hotel is expected to open in late 2014.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - A new establishment will open in the old Roxy's Country Saloon building in Cape Girardeau.

The new owners will open Bill & Chas' on Friday, July 6 at 107 N. Main Street.

Bill and Chas Watkins used to run Bill & Chas' on South Kingshighway. They first opened their doors on April 1, 1988 before heading to Nashville three years later to start recording their music. The band, Chas & the 16th Ave., will host their grand opening.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - Saint Francis Medical Center has announced that three of its physicians and Medical Partners have been credentialed by MD Anderson's Physicians Network through the medical center.

The physicians include: Louis P. Caragine, Jr., MD, PhD, FAANS, neurosurgeon and endovascular neurosurgeon at Cape Cebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery; and Bradley K. Bittle, MD, FCCP, D-ABSM, and Keith Graham, MD, D-ABSM, pulmonologists/sleep medicine physicians at Cape Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine.  

This credentialing gives these physicians access to the advanced, evidence-based treatment processes developed by MD Anderson Cancer Center, the nation's leader in cancer care.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is located in Houston, Texas.