Stories from Wednesday, December 29, 2021

On April 9, the Poplar Bluff Police Department broke ground on its new building. It was an event 138 years in the making, said Chief Danny Whiteley. Whiteley described the first police station to be designed and built specifically to house the city’s law enforcement officers as a tool that will strengthen the department’s abilities to serve and protect residents...

TOPEKA — U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Roy Blunt of Missouri expressed outrage at evidence of bias in the United Network for Organ Sharing’s policy of distributing livers from states with high donor rates to areas of the country underperforming in donation of lifesaving organs...

CENTERVILLE — An Ironton, Missouri, man was sentenced recently to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the deaths of two people during a 2017 robbery and shooting. David John Young was found guilty by a jury on Sept. 1 after a three-day trial and was sentenced Dec. 20 by Crawford County Circuit Judge Megan Seay...

Missouri’s alternative methods season deer hunters look to be having a tough go of it. At least that’s what the harvest numbers are saying. At around the mid-point in the season, hunters statewide have taken only 2,692 deer as of Wednesday morning. That’s well less than half the 5,950 they had killed at the same point in last year’s season, and if they are going to match the 2020 season total of 14,555 deer, something drastic is going to have to happen soon...

Brian Max Waite, 65, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, at his home.

Henrietta Rehagen Luecke in the comfort of her home and surrounded by the love of her family left this earth to be with her Lord and Savior and join her beloved Clarence on the 28th day of December, 2021. She was the eldest of five children born on the family dairy farm in Rich Fountain, Missouri, on the 18th day of October, 1924 to John and Ida Rehagen. ...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT Employees at Walmart Supercenter on South Westwood Boulevard reported a juvenile employee stole approximately $1,381.87 worth of cash and merchandise on Wednesday, Dec. 22. _ Madhu Kikani reported a break-in at Jay’s Corner Store on North Ninth Street at 8:25 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, wherein $3,284 was stolen from the office...

Our region will see at least $5 million in improvements in 2022 just from grants awarded over a three-month period this summer. Street paving, education, a new rural firehouse and many more projects benefited from these awards between May 1 and July 31...

Claire Kenner of Dexter is knocking on doors to raise funds to go on a medical mission Feb. 5 - 12 to Kingston, Jamaica with the Footsteps Medical Mission, Inc. “In order to go, we have to come up with some matching funds to help get ourselves there,” Kenner said...