Stories from Monday, December 21, 2020

The autopsy has been completed on a man who died Saturday morning in the Butler County jail. Butler County Coroner Andy Moore’s office reported the “autopsy is completed” on Noah Emmerson Burke, 35, of Poplar Bluff. Moore is waiting on tissue and toxicology samples at this point. Dr. Russel D. Deidiker of Farmington performed the autopsy...

Lorene Bryant, 94, of Doniphan, Missouri, passed away Dec. 19, 2020. Lorene was born Sept. 14, 1926, in rural Harviell, Missouri, to Stella and Homer Ainley. She was a faithful member of the Pentecostal faith. She was married to Ivan R. Bryant of Fisk, Missouri on Dec. 14, 1946. To this union two children were born: David R. Bryant and Naomi Bryant Murray...

Ronald Lee Plumb, 77 of Glen Carbon, Illinois, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 at his home surrounded by his family. Ronald was born on Aug. 30, 1943 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, the son of the late George William and Dora Lorene (Strobel) Plumb...

Gilford Hamilton, 84, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away on Dec. 18, 2020, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff with his family around him, and took his journey to heaven. Gilford was born on Oct. 9, 1936, to the late Worth and Elsie (Hardin) Hamilton in Tennessee. He married Shirley Hamilton on June 27, 1957, in Hayti, Missouri. She preceded him in death May 20, 2020...

FISK — Patsy Smith-Dixon (Halsey) passed away Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Frances Virginia-Halsey and James Rolland Halsey. Patsy was born on Oct. 19, 1945, in Los Angeles, California. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene Dixon; one daughter, Veronica Dee Smith; three sisters: Connie Halsey-Pavia, Carolyn Halsey, and Suzanne Halsey-Brown. ...

Santa enlists a special team each year to take children Christmas shopping. The event, Shop with a Hero, was Saturday. Poplar Bluff Police Officer Zach Tubb said this unique assignment took place at the Walmart Supercenter with 55 children participating...

A Harviell man led area law enforcement agencies on a high-speed chase through three counties and two states Friday night and Saturday morning before being taken into custody. Garland Leon Trice Jr., 39, is in the Butler County jail facing numerous traffic violations...

Poplar Bluff city officials say new funding has been secured for a Highway 67 south project to bring the effort back to its pre-COVID-19 levels. The first four miles of the four-lane project of Highway 67 south to the Arkansas border are once again fully funded, with the announcement at Monday’s city council meeting...

BROSELEY -- Despite another year of deficit spending, the Twin Rivers R-X auditor said the district is starting to trend in the right direction.