Stories from Friday, September 13, 2024

Ashton Mays (middle) was crowned the 2024 Poplar Bluff High School homecoming queen Friday evening before the Mules' football game against Farmington. Pictured from left are Kaitlyn Booker, Reece Prenger, Mays, Willow Luke and Lily Gregory. Mays was crowned by retiring queen Kennedy Zgaynor (not pictured)...

By the time he was in middle school, Dan Mustain had already discovered one great love in his life but he just couldn’t shake the feelings he had for something else. Now, he is able to do both while also raising his family.

It was first heard from far off. Onlookers craned their necks to see around the bend of the Vine Street railroad crossing late Thursday afternoon. The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014, the largest steam locomotive still in operation, heralded its arrival with a formidable blast of its whistle, conjuring memories of a time long since passed.

The November general election is nearing, and Tuesday was the day ballots were supposed to be printed in preparation for absentee voting, but that didn’t happen in Missouri. Multiple legal challenges kept some issues from being certified for their official ballot status, and some last-minute court rulings decided how things should proceed.

The Butler County Fair wrapped up in 1924. Despite rainy weather, the race track was hot when — a new harness horse upset previous champions on his very first race. Other headlines found today were a 1949 train wreck and a 1974 conference. Sept. 13, 1924...

The Current River Cleanup on Saturday has been canceled because of the high risk of storms. This would have been the fourth year for the event which is part of AmeriCorps Seniors of Butler and Carter Counties 9/11 service project. AmeriCorps Seniors was formerly RSVP...

Wanda Lou Cunningham, 92, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 at Westwood Hills Health Care Center, in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Cunningham was born Sept. 16, 1931 in Fisk, Missouri, daughter of the late Edward and Anna Pearl White. On Nov. 6, 1948, she married Rex Cunningham. He preceded her in death Sept. 5, 2000...

Shirley Charles, 89, of Greenville, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Visitation is at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral will follow at noon, also in the Greenville Chapel. Burial is in Crossroads Cemetery, Greenville...

Mr. Dennis W. Brown, a longtime resident of the Patterson area, died in Poplar Bluff Sept. 11 at the age of 87. Mr. Brown had a varied career and worked in the 1950s at labor jobs in the local area, an exploration team in Alaska, and twice at Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle. The first time he worked at the Boeing Co. as an electrician and later as an electronics technician...