Stories from Saturday, December 9, 2023

Saturday 75 years ago Dec. 9, 1948 • The undefeated Poplar Bluff Mules high school football team was honored at the Poplar Bluff Letter Club’s annual football banquet held last night (Dec. 8) at the Dunn Hotel and attended by 134 people. Tom Minetree was honored as the conference’s leading scorer after scoring 103 points this season and Harry Smith, line coach at the University of Missouri, was the featured speaker...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Cynthia K. Eller, 58, of Piedmont was arrested at 9:50 a.m. Friday, Dec. 8, in Wayne County on a Wayne County warrant for exploiting the elderly and on suspicion of felony possession of methamphetamine. She was booked at the Wayne County jail...