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A 45-year-old Poplar Bluff man was killed Saturday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of U.S. Highway 67 and Highway C, southwest of Poplar Bluff. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Clarence P. Sarabia, 45, of Poplar Bluff was operating a 2006 Ford Escape eastbound at 2:25 p.m. Saturday when it failed to yield and pulled into the path of a northbound 2019 Volvo tractor-trailer operated by Rashad S. Karim, 38, of Abilene, Texas...

A Poplar Bluff man was found guilty in a Butler County courtroom Thursday on charges of first-degree statutory rape, first-degree statutory sodomy and incest. Thomas Woodham was found guilty on all three counts after just 30 minutes of deliberation by a 10 woman, two-man jury...

A Fairdealing woman will serve two concurrent five-year sentences in the Missouri Department of Corrections after her guilty plea Tuesday for her role in the July 2019 death of a Doniphan man. Accompanied by her attorney, Matt Edmundson, Schylar Alexis Tubbs withdrew her previous not guilty plea and pleaded guilty as charged to the Class B felony of first-degree kidnapping and the Class C felony of first-degree involuntary manslaughter before 36th Circuit Presiding Judge Michael Pritchett...

Coy Rahlmann grew up loving rodeo, and after years of hard work, he will find himself on the sport’s biggest stage Dec. 2-11 when he competes in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. “It’s a dream come true. That is the World Series of rodeo pretty much,” said Rahlmann, who will compete with partner Douglas Rich in the team roping competition...

In his almost one year in office, President Biden has been a disaster for our country. He and his Congressional supporters are threatening our pocketbooks, privacy and safety. I would like to highlight what I believe to be the most problematic policies...

The ongoing supply chain and labor shortages affect industries, grocery stores, school lunches. Two providers serving Butler County are adapting. Poplar Bluff The Poplar Bluff school district is served by Chartwells K-12, a division of Compass Group North America. Food services director Dixie Harden said Poplar Bluff has been able to provide for children by changing their menus and making substitutions amid fluctuating supply...

Carolyn Cravens’ first two mini donkeys, Patches and Donk, were not what she expected. She and her husband Dodson bought them to protect their cattle, believing they would be tame like horses. They soon discovered the two had lived their whole lives out to pasture and were completely wild...

Michelle Carter, a teacher at First Baptist Church preschool who is battling breast cancer, was surprised Monday morning by her “support squad” of 130 students. An assembly of whispering preschoolers were shushed as they waited to surprise Carter. Each child’s gray and pink T-shirt proudly proclaimed “support squad.” Cellphones and cameras were at the ready for Carter to enter the room and be surprised...

A poster seeking help for a 27-year-old Poplar Bluff husband and father fighting leukemia became a message from God to one area man. John Penaflor feels God directed him to help Zach Dobbs, 27, his wife Kayla and their baby. Dobbs’ father, Michael Dobbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, presently is at St. Louis University Medical Center where his son was transferred Sunday by Air Evac Lifeteam to the intensive care unit. The younger Dobbs was diagnosed July 22 with acute myeloid leukemia...

Two recent polls by Calibre Press of police officers nationwide highlight the struggles departments and their personnel face every day. In July 2020, just a month after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, more than 10,000 cops responded to a survey asking for opinions on the current state of policing...