Stories from Saturday, November 21, 2020

To the Editor, The 2020 post-election chaos, recounts and litigation could be changed with Electoral College reform. The current E.C. “winner-take-all” system gives more value to the votes in “battleground” states. Our Constitution gives each state the authority to decide how to award its electoral votes. The National Popular Vote bill will insure every vote in every state has equal value. The votes in “battleground” states would not decide the election. The people would decide...

Steven Riney April LeAnn and Chris M. Riney of Puxico are the parents of a 7-pound, 7-ounce son born at 11:18 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, at Saint Francis HealthCare Family BirthPlace. They named the baby Steven Raye Riney. He was 18 1/2 inches long. They have another son and four daughters...

“Today, we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers — for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them...

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, brothers Isidor and Paul Kim blazed a trail of academic success at Poplar Bluff High School. Isidor and Paul graduated first in their respective classes, while both were members of National Honor Society and also were Star Graduates...

Poplar Bluff Fire Department Poplar Bluff firefighters were dispatched at 9:12 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, to a vehicle accident with no injuries on Highway W and the East Outer Road. The vehicle had run off the highway and down an embankment of the outer road, according to the report. It overturned, landing on the passenger side of the vehicle. The driver refused medical assistance...

Butler County is on the verge of falling into the highest risk category, “extreme risk,” established under a public health warning issued Friday by the governor, which also recommends all Missourians wear a mask at all times in public regardless of which risk category they fall into...