Stories from Saturday, March 16, 2024

I am thrilled to have been the first co-sponsor of HB 2634, a crucial piece of legislation aimed at safeguarding the sanctity of life and protecting taxpayers’ dollars from being used to fund abortion facilities or their affiliates. It fills me with great pride to see this bill pass through the House with resounding support and now making its way through the Senate...

To the Editor: Abortion has always been a hot topic and is especially so in Missouri right now. I have never been 100% pro-abortion, but the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court and the enaction of one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation have caused me to rethink my position...

Letter to the editor I feel the urge to respond to a recent article published by your Daily American Newspaper, written or at least sponsored; by Congressman Jason Smith. In the article, Mr. Smith purports to use someone else’s comment from the border town of Brownsville, Texas. There seems to be a problem with his inference that our (all of us) president is a day late and a dollar short...

Poplar Bluff experiences juvenile crime waves 25 years apart, with an escape artist in 1949 and a quartet of burglars in 1974. The city is also rocked by tragedy after three children die in a house fire.

Officers were dispatched Friday, March 15, to Iowa and Arkansas in reference to an assault. After speaking with several witnesses and a possible victim, it was determined nobody wished to pursue charges. _ Officers were dispatched Friday, March 15, to the 1900 block of South Broadway for trespassing. ...