Stories from Saturday, June 6, 2020

To the Editor: Poplar Bluff and our businesses rely on an accurate 2020 Census. The 2020 Census is here! Business owners will soon be getting a wealth of information that will help them make decisions that affect our work, employees, and local customers...

A Daily American Republic staff member was on her way home Wednesday night when she came upon a series of serious accidents that had left a small Hyundai sandwiched between two large semi trucks. Emergency workers had to cut the seriously injured driver free from the vehicle...

Edward Henry Shannon, 76, of Poplar Bluff, passed away June 03, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Edward was born Jan. 17, 1944 to Alfred and Nettie Shannon in Webster Groves, Missouri. He married Penelope Tibbs, Feb. 3, 1968, in Rolla, Missouri...

Butler County Sheriff Ryan Lee Deschamp, 34, of the 500 block of Vaden Street was booked in the Butler County jail Friday, June 5, for 48-hour shock time. _ Randy Joe Foster, 47, of the 1200 block of Fifth Street was booked in the Butler County jail Friday, June 5, on suspicion of domestic assault...

City Fire City firefighters responded at 1:10 p.m. Friday, June 5, to reports of an alarm sounding at Poplar Bluff Regional Westwood Campus. According to the report, maintenance emptied a vacuum cleaner which caused the detector to go off due to duct. The system was reset...

Police briefly blocked West Pine Boulevard Saturday afternoon as a line of protestors lasting over two blocks made its way to the Butler County Courthouse.