Stories from Monday, July 10, 2023

Noah Hillis, 66, of Williamsville, died Friday, July 7, at his residence. Visitation is at 5 p.m., Tuesday, July 11, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Williamsville Chapel. Funeral following at 7 p.m., also in the Williamsville Chapel. Online condolences can be made at www.rueggfuneralhomes.com...

Dewayne Robison, 75, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Saturday, July 8, 2023 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Robison was born March 29, 1948 in Success, Arkansas, he loved engineering, building race cars, motorcycles, boats, flying airplanes. Mr. Robison was a truck driver, farmer, and a city employee. He was of Church of Christ faith...

Billie Jean Rhoads, 79, of Marion, Arkansas, formerly of Malden, died Sunday, July 2, 2023, at her residence in Marion.

Poplar Bluff Police Alphonso Price, 56, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 7:06 a.m. Wednesday, June 21, at a residence in the 700 block of Foley Street. Price was booked in on a Butler County warrant for failure to register as a sex offender with a $100,000 bond and a probation/parole warrant for parole violation with no bond. He was lodged in the Butler County jail...

Vernitta “Vee” Elizabeth Cowell, 92, of Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, died Friday, July 7, 2023, at her residence.

Marilyn Yvonne Dodge, 87, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away July 8, 2023 at The Manor in Poplar Bluff. Marilyn was born Sept. 30, 1935 to Carl and Lorene (Gabriel) James in Kennett, Missouri. She married Paris Dodge June 27, 1953. He preceded her in death...

The staff at Lemonade House Grille will put fun into fundraising Saturday at the St. Jude Summer Bash. The charity event for the children’s research hospital will last from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and feature carnival games, a cruise-in car show, a bounce house, dunking booth and raffles...

Gunfire will be heard coming from the Doniphan R-I campus July 13, but it will all be part of a simulation exercise to teach school officials and local law enforcement how to respond in the event of an active shooter. The training will be the first in a series of proactive steps the district is taking to protect its students and create a safer environment...

Pastor Greg Gilberto, accompanied by several community leaders and organizers, coordinated a special meet-and-greet event Friday, July 7 at Northpoint Nazarene Church. The purpose of the gathering was to introduce the newly appointed superintendent of the Poplar Bluff School District, Dr. Aaron Cornman, and the new area representative for the Southeast Missouri Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Darrin Scott...

Employers grappling with a nationwide labor shortage gave low-wage workers the largest pay increases in most states between 2019 and last year. But even so, many of those workers — more than 40% of all U.S. households, by one estimate — are struggling to cover the inflated costs of basic expenses...

The plane is 85 years old. It has been built, rebuilt and modified five times. The cockpit has only four instruments. But these things were all part of the ride for 17-year-old Chloe Cambron, who flew the 1938 Piper J-3 Cub solo at the end of June. Chloe Cambron is a senior at Poplar Bluff High School who began flying with her father, pilot and real estate investor Kevin Cambron, around age 9. She and her brother Zachary both learned to fly out of the Poplar Bluff Municipal Airport...

Christopher Robinson, 22, of Malden, was arrested at 6:21 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5, in the lobby of the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Emergency Room. Robinson was booked on a charge of third-degree domestic assault and was lodged in the Butler County jail...

Victor Bagwell, reported at 8 a.m. on Thursday, July 6, that his ex-girlfriend struck him and his car with a bat outside her apartment in the 400 block of Highway 53. The suspect left the scene before the police were notified. _ An employees at Quality Tech Transmission at 1700 South Broadway reported at 9:16 a.m. on Thursday, July 6, they found a bag of paint tools on the business property. The tools were placed into evidence until the owner claims them...