Stories from Saturday, July 16, 2022

Danny Whiteley has devoted a large chunk of his life to public service in Butler County and Southeast Missouri. His law enforcement career began in 1972 as a reserve deputy through the Butler County, Ripley County and Scott County sheriff’s departments, and he has spent the past 22-plus years leading the Poplar Bluff Police Department. He also has been a key player with the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force...

This morning a baby died in Illinois. There was no obituary, no tears were shed, and no name was given. She was the victim of a dismemberment abortion, the most common abortion method used during the second trimester. In Illinois, abortion on demand is allowed until the third trimester. ...

Poplar Buff High School graduate Tianna Hall-Patton has been awarded the $3,500 Reddy Family Scholarship, reserved for a Poplar Bluff High School graduating minority student of need and merit pursuing education at a four-year college. Hall-Patton plans to major in nutrition and exercise physiology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and become an athletic trainer one day. ...