Stories from Saturday, October 19, 2024

As lifelong Poplar Bluff resident Missouri Belle Priest prepared to celebrate her 100th birthday, she reminisced about a time few people in 1974 could remember. This weekend’s headlines also included an avalanche of catalogs, unsolved explosions and civic improvements...

Officers were dispatched Saturday, Oct. 19, to the 400 block of North G Street in reference to a fight. Dispatch advised that there was possibly a bat and gun involved in the incident. Officers arrived on scene and after an investigation arrested Zaitron Dudley, 19, of Poplar Bluff and Peta Jay, 18, of Poplar Bluff. ...