Stories from Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Tips from students Tuesday morning led Poplar Bluff High School administration to a handgun that had been brought onto campus, district officials report. The gun was recovered from the student’s backpack by 8:32 a.m., Superintendent Dr. Aaron Cornman said. The weapon was not loaded but the student also had a magazine and two rounds of ammunition...

Poplar Bluff residents will be seeing multiple shades of pink beginning Friday when the United Cancer Assistance Network (UCAN) hosts their annual PINK OUT event. Melody Chailland, executive director of UCAN said that one in every eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during an interview in the nonprofit's office housed in the Danny Bell Treatment Center...

100 years agoOct. 10, 1923 • The Service Construction Company of Poplar Bluff is making rapid progress on its three contracts in Stoddard County. The Class B gravel road, which runs from Bloomfield to the Cape Girardeau County line through Advance, is more than one-third finished (the road is now known as Highway 25)...

Doyle Keith Albright, Sr. “Buck”, 77 of Glen Allen, Missouri passed away peacefully Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, at his residence. Buck was born Nov. 3, 1945, to Clyde and Ethel (Williams) Albright in Risco, Missouri. He married Sharon Louise Allensworth Sept. 6, 1969...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Nicole M. Fields, 42, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 9:23 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6. in Butler County on a Butler County felony warrant for larceny. She was booked at the Butler County jail. _ Daniel J. Foster, 25, of Dexter was arrested at 4:04 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, in Stoddard County on suspicion of DWI (alcohol) and failure to drive on the right side of the road. He was released...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT Officers engaged in a motor vehicle pursuit at 7:22 a.m. Friday, Oct. 6, with a white 2015 Nissan passenger vehicle after the driver failed to pull over for their lights and siren. The pursuit was terminated when the vehicle reached North Westwood Boulevard; but the driver was later arrested without incident after she pulled into the lot at Kirk’s Quick Stop at 3704 S. ...