Stories from Monday, February 10, 2020

Saturday, Feb. 29, will be a Day of Service and Prayer in Poplar Bluff and Butler County. “We have a bonus day,” since 2020 is leap year, said Butler County Emergency Management Director Robbie Myers. That’s correct, this year will have 366 days. Never wanting to waste a special day, Myers got the ball rolling. ...

The Bread Shed, in partnership with the Diaper Bank of the Ozarks, will start distributing free diapers to needy families once a month.

City firefighters responded at 11:34 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, to a carbon monoxide detector sounding at the 2106 Wood St. residence occupied by Ashley Ellison. According to the report, firefighters checked the residence with a multigas meter, which caused an alarm to sound...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Jerry L. Whitley, 50, of Springfield, Mo., was arrested at 6:44 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, on suspicion of DWI and driving the wrong direction on a divided highway. He was booked at the Wayne County Jail. _ Lesley D. Willard, 46, of Williamsville was arrested at 6:17 p.m. ...

“Help us Lord to never forget them,” prayed chaplain Rafael Maachuca during the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center Wall of Valor Ceremony 2020 Monday at the National Guard Armory in Poplar Bluff. He was praying everyone remember wall of valor recipients the late Raymond Henry Cooper of Poplar Bluff, Billy Edward Fisher of Doniphan and James Craig Hahs of Sikeston. Each soldier had been awarded the Bronze Star medal with Combat Valor Device, as well as all soldiers who have kept the nation free...

Lake Road Elementary and Poplar Bluff Middle School saw a successful launch of new milk dispensers Monday.

President Trump recently signed a bill into law that law enforcement have described as an important tool in their fight against those trafficking synthetic Fentanyl. For the last two years, the Emergency Scheduling Act had classified synthetic Fentanyl and any analogs as schedule I controlled substances, but that act was set to expire on Thursday...

DEXTER — Seventeen people were arrested and 22 citations were issued during a recent narcotics enforcement operation held by the Dexter Police Department. Between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, officers with the police department, SEMO Drug Task Force, Stoddard County Sheriff’s Department and Missouri State Highway Patrol conducted a targeted narcotic enforcement sweep in Dexter, according to a news release from Capt. Joshua Benton...