Stories from Saturday, November 16, 2024

Poplar Bluff’s leaders responded to the city’s traffic woes in 1924 after a spate of careless driving accidents. Also in 1924, a disgraced bank director and an accomplice were paroled.

A pedestrian was killed shortly after 1:30 a.m. Saturday in a one-vehicle accident on Highway 60, two miles west of Fisk. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 37-year-old Scott City man was walking eastbound when he was struck by a 2012 Freightliner Cascadia. The driver of the Cascadia is from Onley, Illinois...