Stories from Wednesday, August 11, 2021

A 64-year-old Poplar Bluff man was sent to a St. Louis hopsital and three of his family members were treated for smoke inhalation at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center after an early morning fire Wednesday at their home in the 700 block of South C St...

Robyn Lynnette Evans, age 59, of Broseley, Missouri, died Saturday, August 7, 2021, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Evans was born August 12, 1961, daughter of the late Robert and Florella Keller. She is survived by her husband, Steven Hacker; two daughters, Amanda Richie and Lauren Bond; two brothers and one sister...

Alex Clinton, a 64-year-old Poplar Bluff father and grandfather, is in the burn unit at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis with burns on 20% of his body. He was rescued from his home at 717 S. C St. about 2 a.m. Wednesday by Poplar Bluff firefighters. “My husband sacrificed himself to get us out,” said his wife, Christy Clinton, 46. “He was yelling get out, get out of the house. He made sure we all got out, we got help. I was the last after the girls to get out. I got stuck. He collapsed in the house.”...

Officials and residents gathered Wednesday for a beam signing at the site of a new Poplar Bluff Police Department on Shelby Road. The project is on track to be completed by August 2022, said Chief Danny Whiteley, who thanked those in attendance for their support of the project...

An EF-0 tornado was part of a severe thunderstorm that blew through southern Butler County Sunday evening, damaging a house on Highway 53 northwest of Qulin and a grain bin on Highway 51. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning at 7:16 p.m., warning residents that a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Qulin, nine miles southeast of Poplar Bluff, moving at 20 miles per hour. The storm had radar-indicated rotation, the NWS reported...