Stories from Friday, April 8, 2022

Officers with the Dexter Police Department responded to Regions Bank Friday morning after a caller reported a robbery. Dexter Police Chief Hank Trout said the caller stated a male suspect grabbed money from a female customer’s hand and fled the bank...

PIEDMONT, Mo. — Ronald Craig Farrell, 88, of Piedmont, died Wednesday, April 6. Visitation is at 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 12, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont Chapel. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m., also in the Piedmont Chapel. Burial will be in Peach Tree Cemetery with full military honors...

Tracey Graves, 49, of High Ridge, Missouri died March 17, 2022 at her home in High Ridge. She was born July 23, 1972 in Bexar, Texas. Tracey was a former resident of Poplar Bluff, having graduated from Poplar Bluff High School. She received a Bachelor’s Degree, and worked in food service...

FISK, Mo. — Wilma May (Lindsay) Rhodes, 97, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Friday, April 8, 2022 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Rhodes was born July 1, 1924 at Bernie, Missouri, the eldest child of the late Chester and Arcadia (Young) Lindsay. ...

A Poplar Bluff couple sits in the Butler County jail after police officers visited their residence Wednesday and allegedly found them and their five children living in dangerously unsanitary conditions. Aaron and Teyrsa Medley of the 800 block of Butler Street are each charged with five Class D felonies of first degree endangering the welfare of a child creating substantial risk...

Eugene Field Elementary students and faculty opened the school’s doors Friday for Leadership Day to share how The Leader in Me program makes great things happen in the students’ lives. Visitors were greeted by a cheering squad and had their photos taken by the photography team...

“LA Law” actor Corbin Bernsen’s character in the film “HERD” was armed and bloodied as he confronted a zombie this week inside an auto garage set, constructed inside a warehouse on the edge of Poplar Bluff. It was one of many scenes taking place in and around town as filmmakers began shooting the zombie apocalypse movie “HERD,” directed by Poplar Bluff native Steven Pierce. Filming will also take place in Doniphan and Van Buren for this production...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Lee Anthony Abraham, 53, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Thursday, April 7, on suspicion of statutory sodomy. _ William Henry Applewhite, 34, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Thursday, April 7, on a writ of habeas corpus...