Stories from Friday, October 7, 2022

A search was underway Friday afternoon in the Black River for evidence related to last week’s Mini Park shooting. The Poplar Bluff Police Department called in the Missouri State Highway Patrol Underwater Recovery Team to search for evidence that may have been disposed of in the river, according to Interim Police Chief Mike McClain...

JoAnn Precht French of Jefferson City, Missouri, died peacefully at Capital Regions Hospital on Saturday, July 9, 2022. She succumbed to a combination of ailments that she had outwitted, outrun or outmaneuvered for several years. She was born in Mexico, Missouri, on Oct. 26, 1937 to Pauline Hawkins Precht and Louis Precht...

Brittany Hodge, 26, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 9:35 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, on Cheshire Boulevard on a Poplar Bluff Municipal warrant for failure to appear on code violations. Hodge was unable to post bond and she was released on her own recognizance...

Pamela Scott, 65, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, departed this life Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. She was born Feb. 24, 1957, in Corning, Arkansas to the late Ben and Betty (Larkins) Duncan. Pamela married Devon Scott in Poplar Bluff Sept. 23, 1995. She loved to travel, taking care of her pets and enjoyed life to the fullest. Pamela worked for the Lab at Kneibert Clinic for 35 years...

Poplar Bluff Municipal Library just closed on a $91,000, 0.9-acre expansion to its Ridgel Branch, bought from next door neighbor New Covenant Fellowship Church. The library board has one immediate improvement plan, but wants the community’s input on the best ways to utilize the rest of the land in the future...

National Manufacturing Day is held annually on the first Friday of October all over the world to educate youth about career opportunities in the industry of modern manufacturing. This year, students from Poplar Bluff, Doniphan, East Carter County, Bloomfield, Campbell and Holcomb schools spent the day visiting industrial manufacturing plants in the Poplar Bluff area to learn about manufacturing and job opportunities...

Retiring Poplar Bluff High School homecoming queen Addison Kirkman (left) crowns new queen McKenzie Cassie Friday as escort Kayson King looks on at Mules Stadium.