Stories from Saturday, October 19, 2019

In Friday’s edition, we featured women from our area who are battling or who have battled breast cancer. No two stories are the same. Retired teacher Laura Clark of Poplar Bluff said, “I always assumed since no one in my family had breast cancer, I wouldn’t have it. I was home free for almost eight decades.”...

Reply to letter to the Editor: Recently, Tyler Travers, a Poplar Bluff area resident now working in the state Capitol, wrote a letter to the editor urging voters in Southeast Missouri to vote for any other candidate besides me. He lambasted my decision to run as a conservative Republican and my intentions to join with like-minded conservatives in the Senate. ...

Poplar Bluff Police Department has responded to close to 300 shoplifting complaints so far this year, averaging a little more than one a day. A map shows the majority of incidents are spread along Westwood Boulevard retailers, most falling south of Pine Street but a growing number to the north...

The following information regarding response distances and times was provided by the Poplar Bluff Police Department.

PUXICO — While the Puxico community mourned the loss of high school freshman Drake Guffey and prayed for his family, they also watched as the teen’s love for others prevailed. Drake’s family decided after his death Sept. 14, to donate his organs, and specifically to offer a kidney to Matt Mitchell, 46, of Puxico...

The Neelyville R-IV school board approved Thursday night the exploration or going to bid on several new small projects for the district.

Savanna Nail, 95, of St. Peters died Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 21, at Bradshaw Funeral Homes in Malden.

City firefighters responded at 7:55 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, to a report of an unauthorized burn at the 1215 Grand Ave. home owned by Timothy Haygood. Upon their arrival, firefighters found the occupant burning leaves and trash. They used 20 gallons of water to extinguish the fire and notified the occupant of the city’s burn ordinance.

Poplar Bluff Police Mercedes Delisa Patterson, 26, of the 10th block of Alyssa was arrested at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the 500 block of South Westwood Boulevard on two warrants and suspicion of trespassing. She was booked at Butler County jail...

City firefighters responded at 10:13 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, to a report of an unauthorized burn at the intersection of Harper and Mary Street. According to the report, the lot was listed as vacant, but firefighters found a group of people having a bonfire. They explained it was an unauthorized burn before extinguishing the fire with approximately 10 gallons of water and clearing the scene.

Butler County Sheriff Briannon Lee Miller, 25, of the 5000 block of Nellie Sue Circle reported at 4:26 p.m Friday, Oct. 17 that it appeared as though her residence had been entered. According to the report, Miller left the residence to pick up her child from the bus stop, but when she returned the door was open and there was a wrench on the step. She did not report anything missing...