Stories from Monday, August 2, 2021

Elbert Lowell Gilooly, son of the late James Hamilton Gilooly and Vivian Delores Crick Gilooly was born on June 10, 1945, in Sikeston, Missouri and departed this life on July 30, 2021 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri at the age of 76 years...

Emergency medical services evaluated and released three people who were “right next to a lightning strike about 6:55 p.m. Saturday at Van Buren, Riverfront Park, but they weren’t directly struck,” said Carter County Emergency Management Agency Director Curt Majors of Van Buren.

Two people sit in the Butler County jail on drug and other charges after allegedly leading police officers on a chase Saturday afternoon. Quunton S. Wilson, 43, of Lawrence, Kansas, has been charged with the Class C felony of delivery of a controlled substance, the Class D felony of unlawful possession of a firearm and the Class E felony of resisting arrest and creating a substantial risk of serious injury or death. ...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT Roy Phan Stewart Luellen, 31, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 1:53 p.m. Saturday, July 31, on a Butler County warrant for nonsupport. He was booked into the Butler County jail. Sherry Lee Thomas/Cunningham, 37, of the 600 block of 600 Kinzer Street was arrested at 11:50 a.m. Friday, July 30, in the 500 block of Sycamore on a warrant for drug possession...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson learned first-hand Monday how Poplar Bluff’s Boys and Girls Club is working to open doors for its students during his visit to Poplar Bluff. “It was amazing to be able to host the governor of the state of Missouri today because we are on the exact same wavelength with workforce development. This is a key to not only improving our kids’ futures, but the future of this entire community,” said club Executive Director Chris Rushin...

Mary Louise Maxwell Crain succumbed to a terminal illness on July 18, 2021 in Spearfish, South Dakota, at peace and at home, as she and her family wished. She was a few weeks shy of her 86th birthday. She died “a good death,” if that phrase could even hope to encompass the grief involved for such a much loved wife, mother, sister, grandma, great-grandma, aunt, great-aunt and friend...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson was presented three items Monday from the Poplar Bluff Boys and Girls Club to include in the state’s bicentennial time capsule. Longtime Boys and Girls Club student LeAra Hopson presented Parson with a copy of Kati Ray’s book about the victims of the 1927 Poplar Bluff tornado, representing something from the past and the city’s comeback from tragedy...

Poplar Bluff city officials are making a new attempt to replace a bridge on Roxie Road that has seen ‘significant’ traffic increase since the opening of Shelby Road. The matter was discussed Monday at a Poplar Bluff City Council meeting, during which incoming fire Chief Mike Moffitt was also sworn in. On hand for the ceremony were retired fire chief Ralph Stucker and members of Moffitt’s family...