Stories from Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The combined total assets of Poplar Bluff-based Southern Missouri Bancorp have reached $4.5 billion with the recent merger with Citizens Bank and Trust Company. The approximately $140 million transaction makes Southern Bank the 12th largest in deposit market share in Missouri, according to a press release from the company...

Neelyville R-4 School District school board will have a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29. The board will approve and amendment the agenda before going into a closed session to discuss personnel. After the closed session, the board will have a regular session before adjourning...

Officers responded at 11:19 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26, to the 2000 block of Arkansas Street for a peace disturbance complaint. Two landlords with adjoining properties argued about limbs falling onto one property, and each complained the other disturbed their peace. Criminal summonses were mailed to both parties...

VAN BUREN — Carter County’s Health Center reaches into the community in a more responsive fashion than ever. The facility in late August purchased a mobile medical clinic thanks to a successful grant application submitted by the center’s administrator, Michelle Walker...

Carl Phillip “Butch” Gray, 77, of Wappapello, Missouri passed away Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, at his home. Carl was born Dec. 27, 1944, to Don and Marie (Stout) Gray in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Barbara (Jenkins) Feb. 29, 1964, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri...

Wanda Mae Eudaley, 78, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri was peacefully called home to be with her Lord and Savior Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. She was born Oct. 2, 1943, to Clyde V. and Lura Mae Montgomery in Michigan. On Oct. 27, 1962, she married Bill Eudaley. He preceded her in death...

Nellie Morris, 86, of Portageville, Missouri, died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at Portageville Health Care Center.

A Fairdealing man was taken into custody Sept. 9 on suspicion of brandishing a weapon, felony first degree charges of making terrorist threats and trespassing. Charges, which are pending review by the prosecutor, stem from an incident which occurred earlier that day at a Dollar General Store, when the man became enraged over not getting his sales receipt...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Kenneth Harold Betz, 47, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Monday, Sept. 26, on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance. ­­­­_ Danice Adanna Horton, 26, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Monday, Sept. 26 for exceeding the posted speed limit by 20 miles per hour or more...