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The Butler County Health Department released its first timeline this morning detailing where COVID-19 positive residents have been, and who may have been exposed to the illness. The health department has said it will release this list daily as information is available...

Students in the Poplar Bluff R-I district area will have the option next school year to take courses virtually with an R-I teacher, a need that was highlighted by the school cancellations during the pandemic.

Mavrick K. Kipper, 24, of Poplar Bluff suffered serious injuries when his 2006 Honda 450R overturned at 3:25 p.m. Saturday, July 4, while driving near 149 County Road 449 in Scott County. According to the report, Kipper was ejected from the vehicle and was transported by Air Evac to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis for treatment...

Poplar Bluff school officials are pleased with a state decision this week which will allow students to attend every other day and learn remotely on alternating days without penalizing school attendance money. The State Board of Education passed two emergency rules Tuesday establishing hybrid instruction models paving the way for districts to reopen schools...

FREE ACCESS A line of vehicles was already waiting before the 10 a.m. opening today of a mass COVID-19 testing site in Butler County. This is the first day of operation at the Libla Family Sports Complex, on the campus of Three Rivers College.

CAPE GIRARDEAU — A Butler County man faces a mandatory minimum 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug- and weapons-related crimes. Jestin L. Smith, 34, pleaded guilty to the felonies of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of 50 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Sorrell...

Poplar Bluff City Manager Mark Massingham laid out a stark series of numbers for council members during his last meeting at the helm of the municipal budget. The city needs to trim $200,000 from its expenses in the next couple weeks to avoid dipping into cash reserves further...

The Butler County Health Department announced the county’s 100th confirmed case of COVID-19 Monday morning. Of those cases, 68 are classified as recovered, 30 as self isolating and one is hospitalized. There is one confirmed death. The county saw four new cases Friday and one Sunday as well...

A second Butler County resident passed away Wednesday because of COVID-19 infection.

An apparent domestic dispute early Tuesday morning between a Fisk couple left one with multiple stabs wounds and his girlfriend in jail. Butler County deputies were called to a home in the 500 block of Fourth Street at about 2:45 a.m. regarding a report of a man “being covered in blood, acting erratic and screaming” for an ambulance to be called, Deputy Austin Dunlap wrote in his report...