Stories from Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Veterans helping veterans is the mission behind Dogs of War Inc., a clothing apparel line available online and at Ketcherside Kountry. “Lee (Willard) and I are both combat veterans … we were talking one day about how we could help veterans, so we decided to start selling T-shirts and taking the money we made from the shirts and doing things for veterans,” explained Dale Day, who co-owns Dogs of War with Willard...

City firefighters responded at 1:11 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, to an alarm at Spain, Miller, Galloway and Lee LLC, 1912 Big Bend Road. It was investigation only. _ City firefighters responded at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, to a report of an unauthorized burn at 510 S. Avondale...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 58-year-old Poplar Bluff woman was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, on Highway 53, four and one-half miles north of Campbell. According to the report, Cynthia M. Heller was operating a 2011 Toyota Sienna northbound when it ran off the right side of the road and struck a guardrail face...

Rural Butler County schools will be recognized at the Poplar Bluff Museum through a new addition.

NEELYVILLE, Mo.—Shelby Gene Aaron, 69, of Doniphan died Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff Mo. Visitation will be from noon -1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Fowler & Sons Funeral Home in Neelyville, followed by the funeral service beginning at 1 p.m. in the chapel with Ron Fowler officiating. Burial will take place in Kinsey Cemetery...

Robbie Myers, director of Butler County Emergency Management Agency, recently presented at a national conference regarding earthquake preparedness. The 2019 National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference was held the first week of December in Houston, Texas...

VAN BUREN — An Ellsinore man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was sentenced Wednesday for the July 2018 shooting death of an acquaintance. Jason E. Roberts, 46, appeared before Circuit Judge Steven Privette for sentencing after having been convicted of the Class A felony of first-degree murder and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action (ACA) by a Carter County jury in October...