Stories from Friday, April 23, 2021

Born October 9, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri. Went to be with the Lord on March 28, 2021. Jim loved Jesus. He started his ministry as a Presbyterian pastor in Iowa in 1955. On August 24, 1958 he wed the second love of his life, Bonnie, (Jesus is first, of course!). In 1959, their daughter, Sarah was born; followed by their son, Paul in 1960. In 1962, they moved to Poplar Bluff, Missouri where their second daughter, Martha was born in 1963...

Poplar Bluff firefighters were at the scene of a fire at 317 Relief Street in Poplar Bluff Friday, April 23. Look for more information in Saturday's edition of the DAR and online at DARNEWS.COM as it becomes available.

Bettina Ann ‘Tina’ Page, age 63, of Piedmont, passed away Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at the Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born October 30, 1957 in Poplar Bluff. A longtime resident of Piedmont, Tina worked for 18 years at Briggs and Stratton in Poplar Bluff and had recently worked for Heart to Heart Home Health Service. She attended the Piedmont Church of the Nazarene...

Poplar Bluff police are investigating an armed robbery and home invasion that happened around 4 a.m. Thursday in the 1400 block of Memorial Drive. According to Capt. J.R. Keirsey, two assailants armed with handguns gained entry at the location. They tied up the victim while they ransacked the home, he said...

A Poplar Bluff man will spend the next 13 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to amended charges. Bryce D. Davis was originally charged as an accomplice to Curtis Walker in the October 2014 homicide of Salvador Ramirez, whose body was found in the Black River near the Dan River access south of Poplar Bluff. Davis has been in jail since that time...

Poplar Bluff’s full staff of firefighters was needed Friday morning when a blaze broke out in a residence at 317 Relief St. The fire, Chief Ralph Stucker said, was reported at 9:24 a.m. “When we first pulled up, they said they weren’t sure about the back apartment, and that’s where the fire was at,” Stucker said of residents outside the building...

Mark Richard ‘Moose’ Venable, 55, of Jackson, unexpectedly passed away Thursday, April 22, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born August 1, 1965, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Charles and Linda Hilborn Venable. He and Janet Payne were married April 30, 2011...

•• POPLAR BLUFF FIRE DEPARTMENT City firefighters responded at 1:36 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, to a report of a strange odor at Integrity Regional Pain Center, located at 2865 James St. According to the report, firefighters arrived at the location and did smell a strange order. ...