Stories from Saturday, August 1, 2020

“Slow down?” Mary Ruth Boone of Dexter repeats the question. “Probably not,” she replies with a laugh. “If I do that, then I’d have time to sit and worry, and I don’t even want to go there!” Boone retired in 2011 after 30 years in the field of music education — most of those years spent in the Dexter Public Schools...

The conditions of Butler County jail were dangerous and unmanageable in 1993 when members of the Poplar Bluff Rotary Club toured the facility. A sales tax on the November 1993 ballot was proposed to help build a new jail. “I think we need to make a commitment to finance a new jail before we’re mandated by some outside agency,” John Holland told a Daily American Republic reporter who was on site for the tour of the facility on the fourth floor of the Butler County Courthouse...

A 53-year-old Poplar Bluff man was killed in a two-vehicle crash involving a scooter at 3:34 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, on Highway 67, two miles north of Poplar Bluff. According to the report, Gary D. Arbuckle was operating a northbound 2015 Tao Tao scooter the wrong way on the U.S. 67, and his scooter overturned, ejecting him...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 17-year-old Sikeston resident was injured in an all-terrain vehicle crash at 8 a.m. Friday, July 31, on Highway N, two miles north of Ellsinore. According to the report, D’Sean Robinson was operating a 2015 Polaris ATV eastbound when he failed to negotiate a curve, which caused his ATV to go off the left side of the road and hit a traffic sign and the top of a bridge retaining wall. Robinson’s ATV then reportedly went airborne before coming to rest on its side...

City firefighters responded at 5:01 p.m. Friday, July 31, to assist police at 615 Hazel St. _ City firefighters responded at 2:27 p.m. Friday, July 31, to assist emergency-medical-services personnel in the 800 block of Cherry Street. According to the report, firefighters provided lift assistance...

The staff of the Daily American Republic gave back to the community Saturday by serving free meals to anyone stopping by its offices wanting to a “have a meal on us.” The modes of transportation varied from cars and trucks to scooters and bicycles, with others arriving on foot...