Stories from Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Registration opened Nov. 2 for winter and spring classes at Three Rivers College for new and returning students at all the college’s locations.

Eboni Chen’oe Anders, 35, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. She was born June 11, 1985, to Elgin and Joyce (Barnett) Anders in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was a long time resident of Poplar Bluff. She was talented with poem writing and singing. As a homemaker, she loved to cook and keep house. Her family was dear to her, and she always had an endearing smile...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 31-year-old Bloomfield woman was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 2:19 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, on Highway 25, one mile north of Bloomfield. According to the report, Heather D. Nelson was operating a 2005 Toyota Sienna northbound when it ran off the road and struck a tree...

City firefighters responded at 6:55 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, to a report of an unauthorized burn in the 500 block of South D Street. According to the report, firefighters found an unattended and unauthorized burn in the back yard of the 521 S. D St. residence occupied by Matt Clatt...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Jake D. Sutton, 30, of Piedmont was arrested at 12:26 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, on a Pilot Knob municipal failure to appear warrant for traffic offense. He was booked at the Wayne County Jail. _ Shane H. Keathley, 37, of Mill Spring was arrested at 12:23 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, on two Wayne County failure to appear warrants for a traffic violation and failure to register a motor vehicle. He was booked at the Wayne County Jail...

City firefighters responded at 11:51 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, to a report of an unknown fire in the area of Riverview Drive and Peach Street. According to the report, firefighters found a shed behind 206 N. Riverview Drive was fully involved and burning the siding of the 206 N. Riverview residence...

Lauri Ealom was still hard at work at the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners office on Friday at 7 p.m. ― as was most of the staff. And, they were exhausted. “This is a nightmare,” said Ealom, the board’s Democratic director, in a phone call with The Independent Friday night. “This particular election has felt like 100 elections in one.”...

Voters began lining up before the polls opened Tuesday morning to cast their ballots for president and in the other state and local races. “We had a little bit of a morning rush,” said Butler County Clerk Tonyi Deffendall. “ … When I say rush, I mean at 6 o’clock. We had lines at six that we don’t normally have, which is wonderful...

Deborah Lynn Taylor, 71, of Poplar Bluff passed away Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 at Westwood Hills. She was born Sept. 21, 1949 to Monte and Mildred Buetta Taylor in Poplar Bluff. She married Robert Fredwell whom preceded her in death in 2007. Deborah was member of Twin Springs Baptist Church. She was an avid crafter, from decorations to church banners, to sewing and more, she could do it all and was very talented...

Neva Adele Sparkman, 93, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Neva, the daughter of the late Arthur Lewis and Louise (Phelps) Dover, was born March 28, 1927, in Big Island, Missouri. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, where she previously taught Sunday School and sang in the choir. ...

IS THERE A DEADLINE BY WHICH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MUST OFFICIALLY HAVE ALL ITS VOTES IN? Election Day is only one point in the process of the Electoral College, which decides who wins a U.S. presidential race. After the polls close, states begin to count and certify popular vote results according to their respective rules. ...

The late suffragist Alice J. Curtice Moyer-Wing of Greenville and Bobbie Hope Roberts of Poplar Bluff have the same passion about women and voting. Moyer-Wing was a noted suffragist, writer and politician, who spent 21 years living near Greenville. She was widowed at 30, with two young children and had to learn a career to support her family. ...

When Tuesday’s election votes are tallied, Tony Rose of North Fifth Street would like for the United States to be the head again not the tail on the world stage. Rose listed other issues concerning him such as COVID-19, income, as well as the overall direction of the country...

An ongoing battle with regulators over its COVID-19 testing procedures has led Gamma HealthCare to close its doors permanently at midnight Tuesday. The closure affects the company’s 700-plus employees at its home location in Poplar Bluff, as well as its subsidiaries in St. Louis and Texas, said President Jerrod Murphy...

Unofficial results from the Butler County Clerk say President Donald Trump received more votes than former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump received 14,599 votes to Biden's 3,301 out of the 18,136 votes cast. This is about 1,000 more votes than he received in 2016 against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

The Associate Press reports Jason Smith has won another term as Missouri's 8th District Congressman.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has won his re-election bid for a second term, according to the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here is an alphabetical state-by-state look at how and why The Associated Press is calling U.S. states in the 2020 presidential election. States will be added throughout Election Night. _ WHY AP CALLED ALABAMA FOR TRUMP: The AP declared President Donald Trump the winner of Alabama as soon as polls closed in the state, even though election officials there had yet to release results from Tuesday's presidential contest...

The Butler County Eastern District commission seat will remain unchanged heading into the next four-year term.

7 p.m. Donald Trump wins Oklahoma Joe Biden wins New Jersey Joe Biden wins Massachusetts Joe Biden wins Maryland Joe Biden wins Illinois Donald Trump wins Tennessee Joe Biden wins Delaware Joe Biden wins Connecticut Donald Trump wins Mississippi Donald Trump wins Alabama...