Stories from Wednesday, February 1, 2023

A Poplar Bluff Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper was struck shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday while responding to an accident on Highway 60, north of Poplar Bluff at the Marble Hill Road overpass....

Poplar Bluff Street Department employees took advantage of a temporary weather warm-up recently and made some needed repairs to parts of Downtown’s historic brick streets. “We have so much brickwork we could stay busy for a long time, but when summer comes we also have a lot of grass that needs to be mowed and asphalt work,” said street Superintendent Jerry Lawson, when work was being done in the area of Vine and Ninth streets...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT Andrew Lomax, 34, of Poplar Bluff, was arrested at 7:37 a.m. Monday, Dec. 26, at the Probation and Parole Community Supervision Center at 1441 Black River Industrial Park Road. Lomas was booked on a warrant for parole violation and was lodged in the Butler County Jail...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Phillip Lloyd Graves, 41, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Tuesday, Jan. 10, for violating probation. _ Richard Dwayne Holden, 53, of Harviell was booked at the Butler County jail Tuesday, Jan. 10, for resisting or interferring with an arrest...

Downtown Poplar Bluff had dirt streets until 1906, when a mix of tar and gravel called macadam was laid down. It was an improvement, but not a great one — newspapers of the time published complaints of its brittleness and dirt. “Poplar Bluff is no longer a small village and macadamized streets are not the proper thing for the great amount of traffic daily passing over them,” read the Weekly Citizen Democrat on April 14, 1911. ...

Prevention of veteran suicide is a top clinical priority for the Veterans Administration — and now, veterans facing acute suicidal crisis have expanded options to receive immediate medical care during periods when they are most vulnerable. Under the Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care, and Treatment (COMPACT) Act, veterans with acute suicidal crisis can go immediately to any VA or non-VA health care facility for emergency health care at no cost to them...

The homeless have names, faces and stories. Tammie Bratton knows their sagas. She walks the railroad tracks and places she knows they sleep and try to stay alive. She checks on them and their needs. She is the assistant director of housing services for Family Counseling Center...

In February’s first MAIN EVENT, Raiders and fans have the chance to honor legendary coach Gene Bess. Three Rivers College is unveiling a new statue on campus commemorating Bess’s wins and ongoing legacy at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. The event is part of this year’s annual Alumni Reunion. There will also be a “Brick Walk” around the statue, in which the Three Rivers Endowment Trust will sell customizable engraved bricks to support scholarships for TRC athletes...

A suspect is in custody after an alleged arson fire in a shed at 625 Park Ave. Tuesday. RyTreveon Lundarius Ingram, 21, of Poplar Bluff is in the Butler County jail on suspicion of reckless burning or exploding. The fire is being investigated by the Poplar Bluff Police Department and the Missouri State Fire Marshal, said Poplar Bluff Fire Chief Mike Moffitt...