Stories from Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Melanie McKuin of Dexter, Mo., recently represented Williams Baptist University at the international conference of Sigma Tau Delta, English honor society. The conference was held at St. Louis in March. McKuin was one of three WBU students invited to present their research at the event...

CAMPBELL, Mo. — Mrs. Loretta Jean Book, 78, of Campbell, died Monday, April 29, 2019 at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 at Landess Funeral Home in Campbell. The funeral will follow at 2 p.m. at Landess Funeral Home. Burial will be at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Kennett, Mo...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Gilbert Gene ‘Geno’ Burlbaugh, 82, of Poplar Bluff, died Sunday, April 21, 2019 at his residence. Military rites and inurnment are scheduled for May 3, at 3 p.m at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.

Lucas Edington, broker/owner of Mossy Oak Properties Mozark Realty, has announced Derek Emmons as the Top Producer for March. Emmons has been in real estate since September of 2014. He is a member of the Missouri Board of Realtors, is the current MLS Director for the Three Rivers Board of Realtors, an active board member for the University of Missouri extension office in Butler County and is active in the community. ...

USDA has extended the deadline to May 17 from May 1 for agricultural producers to certify 2018 crop production for payments through the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), which helps producers who have been significantly affected by foreign tariffs, resulting in the loss of traditional exports. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) extended the deadline because heavy rainfall and snowfall have delayed harvests in many parts of the country, preventing producers from certifying acres...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Our precious son, brother, nephew and uncle; Jason Tory Huckstep, 53, of Wappapello, Mo. went home to be with Jesus on April 29, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Tory was born on September 22, 1965, in St. Louis, Mo., the son of Jason and Joan (Cantrell) Huckstep...

The local celebration of the National Day of Prayer is moving inside this year ahead of possible rain. The annual event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Black River Coliseum lobby. The usual site is the gazebo on the Butler County Courthouse lawn but wet weather has forced the program to be moved inside the past few years, said Jack Dilday. ...

A Poplar Bluff man is free on bond after he recently was charged with deceptive business practices for allegedly taking payment for a car, but failing to make the necessary repairs and delivering it. Richard Vaughn Morris of the 700 block of County Road 556 is to appear at 9 a.m. May 16 before Associate Circuit Judge C. Wade Pierce for arraignment on the Class E felony of deceptive business practices and the infraction of failure to have a vehicle inspected prior to a sale...

Orscheln Farm and Home of Poplar Bluff will soon be expanding with a move to a larger building. The business will take over a portion of 2223 N. Westwood Blvd., the former location of Kmart. A permit has been filed with the city to complete nearly $1.3 million in renovations to 58,000 square feet of the building. Orscheln will occupy just over two-thirds of the 86,300-square-foot structure, with the Goodwill Excel Center in the other space...

It was here in Butler County that meteorologist Rick Shanklin learned a lesson he has taken back in the years since to the Paducah office of the National Weather Service. It was a message from the late Lloyd Miler, then director of civil defense for the county, about the importance of people in the face of data...

City firefighters responded at 4:22 p.m. Monday, April 29, to a motor-vehicle crash at 1471 N. Westwood Blvd. According to the report, firefighters used 10 gallons of water to remove fluids from the road. ———— City firefighters responded at 1:12 p.m. and 12:03 p.m. to alarms at Whispering Oaks Residential Care Center, 203 N. B St. It was investigation only each time...

A 43-year-old McGee man was killed in a one-vehicle crash at 7:40 p.m. Sunday on Highway P, four miles west of Arab, in Wayne County. According to the report, Anthony J. Portzelt was operating a 2013 Chevrolet Captiva westbound when it ran off the road and overturned...

The Poplar Bluff Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred Tuesday night that sent two women to the hospital. Deputy Chief Donnie Trout said officers responded just after 8 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a shooting in the 300 block of Plum Street. Two females were taken to a local hospital after sustaining non-life threatening injuries then flown to a regional hospital...