Stories from Sunday, May 3, 2020

Route F in Carter County will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform a scrub seal. This section of roadway is located from Route C to County Road 217. Weather permitting, work will take place Wednesday, May 6 from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. The area will only be open to local traffic only...

Missouri State Highway Patrol has announced it will resume all written driver examinations effective May 4, to include: written testing for all classes of licenses; and commercial driver license skills testing (pre-trip, basic, and road). However, non-CDL road testing is not included in this phase of service reinstatement...

A fast-moving thunderstorm hit Butler and surrounding counties Sunday afternoon. There are reports of downed trees, blocking roads. A roof was blown off a home near Neelyville and a tree fell on a Poplar Bluff home, trapping the residents inside.

The Daily American Republic is following reports of widespread storm damage across Ripley, Wayne, Butler and Stoddard counties following a severe storm that began moving through around 1 p.m. It includes a woman trapped in a Poplar Bluff home on Center Street with a downed tree, non-injury vehicle crashes in Butler County with trees down in the road and sections of Highway 67 north of Poplar Bluff closed due to downed trees...

A thunderstorm moved through Butler and surrounding counties Sunday afternoon, damaging homes and leaving between downed trees and blocked roadways. No injuries were reported. The storm hit Van Buren in Carter County at about 12:45 p.m. “It looked like a hurricane, sheets of rain and wind,” said Gary Sullivan, a dispatcher with the Carter County Sheriff’s Department. “It wasn’t a noisy storm. There wasn’t any thunder and lightning, just wind and rain.”...