Stories from Monday, August 15, 2011

Poplar Bluff School District students will return to classes in little more than a week and for the first time in 44 years, Lonnie Taylor won't be among the staff there to greet them. The Arkansas native accepted a job teaching fifth grade at Eugene Field Elementary straight out of college with the thought that R-I likely would be a temporary stop, but never left...

Due to continuing opposition, the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee today decided to not hear Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center's request to build its new hospital on a 62-acre site on the south side of Oak Grove Road between Bypass 67 and Shelby Road. The vote was 5-0...

An 18-year-old Poplar Bluff, Mo., man was killed in a hit-and-run accident at 9:50 p.m. Sunday on Highway 142, three miles south of Poplar Bluff. According to the report, Alexander Metzing was slowing to make a right-hand turn when the motorized scooter he was riding was struck from behind by a dark blue pickup. The driver of the pickup then fled the scene. Metzing was pronounced dead at the scene by Butler County Deputy Coroner Joe Chapman...