Stories from Thursday, November 18, 2021

The Missouri State Highway Patrol continues to investigate an officer-involved shooting, which occurred just after midnight Wednesday morning on Poplar Bluff’s south side. On Thursday, the patrol released the name of the suspect who was killed in the incident...

Residents very close to Williamsville may have felt the ground shake a second time Wednesday night, but the force of the magnitude 2.5 aftershock was 50 times less than the main quake, according to researchers with the University of Memphis. A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was widely felt across Missouri, Arkansas and other parts of the region at 8:53 p.m. Wednesday, briefly alarming many residents who were confused by the rare larger quake...

The ground rolled in waves, the most powerful river in the country reversed course, homes cracked and fell down... For the inhabitants of the original city of New Madrid and the surrounding area, it must have felt like the world was ending when the first of the most powerful series of earthquakes in U.S. history struck just after 2 a.m. Dec. 16, 1811...

Staff from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed safety inspections of both the Clearwater Lake and Wappapello Lake dams following Wednesday night’s earthquake in the region, something officials said is a routine safety procedure. “Following a local reported 4.0 magnitude earthquake, a precautionary walk-over inspection of all flood-damage reduction facilities at Wappapello Lake was completed on the morning of Nov. ...

Larry McCann, 70, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away Nov. 16, 2021 at his home in Poplar Bluff. Larry was born Jan. 11, 1951 to William and Billie Sue (Thomas) McCann in Sikeston, Missouri. He married Vickie Brown April 14, 1979, in Millersville, Missouri. She preceded him in death...

FISK, Mo. — John Travis Maclin, 87, of Sikeston, Missouri, formerly of Bernie, Missouri, died Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Mr. Maclin was born May 31, 1934 in Keiser, Arkansas, son of the late Robert Arthur Sr. and Lula Bell (McPeak) Maclin...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Mildred B. Coursey, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Mrs. Coursey was born in the state of Oklahoma on July, 3, 1938. She was married for over 50 years to the late Edward R. ...

Bennie David Foster, Jr., 55, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. He was born Feb. 25, 1966 in Poplar Bluff to Rose Carol Shriver and the late Bennie David Foster, Sr. He was an avid fisherman in the local rivers and lakes. Bennie is survived by his mother, Rose Carol Shriver of Poplar Bluff; his stepmother, Peggy Foster of Lawton, Oklahoma; one brother, Brian Foster, Sr. ...

GREENVILLE, Mo. — Robert Libla Jr., 72, of Wappapello, Missouri, died Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Visitation will be held at noon, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral service will follow at 1:30 p.m., also in the Greenville Chapel. Burial will be in Greenville City Cemetery...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT Employees or the Dollar General store at Qulin reported at 9:56 a.m. Friday, Nov. 12, that two males came into the store and stole $240 in cash by deceit. _ Dylan S. Davidson, 25, of the 200 block of Midland was booked Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the Butler County jail to serve 12 hours shock time...