Stories from Wednesday, July 22, 2020

An 18-year-old Piedmont resident was seriously injured in a one-vehicle crash at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, on Highway V, six miles southeast of Piedmont. According to the report, Jason L. Robinson, 18, of Piedmont was operating a 2006 Pontiac G6 northbound when he failed to negotiate a curve, which caused his car to run off the left side of the road...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 31-year-old Piedmont man was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, on Highway 49, north of County Road 349A, in Wayne County. According to the report, Kyle R. Whitaker was operating a 2005 Pontiac G6 southbound when it ran off the left side of the road and struck a culvert...

One of the stranger effects of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a shortage of coins. The Missouri Bankers Association issued a release Tuesday asking Missouri consumers to deposit change and to use change at the store. However, effects of the shortage locally vary from business to business...

DONIPHAN — A Doniphan man is fighting for his life, and his family and friends want to help in his battle. They are asking for prayers and are planning a benefit from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, at Patsy’s Hitchin’ Rail Bar & Grill in Doniphan. The benefit was the brainchild of Patsy Mobley of the Journeyman Restaurant, family members said...

GREENVILLE — Willard Emerson, 93, of Clubb, died Monday, July 20, 2020, at Mark Twain Caring Center. Visitation will be at 10 a.m., Friday, July 24, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral service be at 11 a.m., also in the Greenville Chapel. Burial will follow in Greenville City cemetery, with full military honors...

Thirty-eight teams fished last weekend’s Angler’s Choice tournament on Wappapello Lake, and all but a few weighed fish. At the end of the day, Paul Henderson and his son, Kason Henderson, came away as the winners, hauling a five-fish limit totaling 25.35 pounds to the weigh-in scales. For their efforts, the pair took home $1,720...

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission unanimously approved the addition of the veteran’s/active duty military waterfowl hunt to Arkansas’s youth waterfowl hunt days during its most recent meeting. This is the second consecutive year the Commission has approved the option since it was made available by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

Maranda M. Weaver, 26, of Poplar Bluff, passed away on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Maranda was born on May 1, 1994, in Poplar Bluff. She enjoyed spending time with family, drawing and making everyone around her laugh. Her personality allowed her to have a relationship with everyone she met. She will be missed and never forgotten...

County firefighters responded at 5:12 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, to a vehicle fire on Highway 60 East. According to the report, the fire in a 2004 Chevrolet Colorado, owned by Louie Lindsay, was out upon the arrival of the fire department. _ City firefighters responded at 8:39 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, to an alarm at 734 Price St...

Butler County set a new daily record for positive cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday with eight new cases. That brings the county's total number of cases to 168 since its first positive test on March 31, and 101 new cases since Missouri entered phase two of its reopening on June 16, which included no statewide health restrictions...

Poplar Bluff authorities continue to investigate a hit-and-run, which occurred earlier this month and left a local man with multiple injuries, including a broken hip. “We are trying to locate and interview anyone who may have seen or have any knowledge” of the incident, which occurred at about 12:30 a.m. July 2 at the intersection of Cole Avenue and Cliff Street, said police Lt. Josh Stewart...

MALDEN — Joe Reasie Williams, loving husband and father and a retired minister and farmer, died July 21, 2020, at his home in Malden, Missouri. He was 87. Born on Jan. 12, 1933, he was the son of the late Wiley Jay and Drusa Dooley Williams. He was born, raised, and lived most of his life on the family farm northeast of Gideon. ...

“To say we are excited is an understatement,” said Dr. Kathryn Bell of Hillcrest Animal Hospital, as she and her husband, Dr. Mason Bell, welcomed the community to the ground breaking for their new animal hospital Wednesday on south Shelby Road in Poplar Bluff...