Stories from Monday, January 8, 2024

A Missouri Lottery “Stocking Stuffer” Scratchers ticket left one winner shaking after she discovered one of the game’s $50,000 top prizes. “When I scratched it, I just started shaking,” she recalled. “I called my daughter in to double-check it since I had just woken up...

Twin Rivers - Qulin Middle School recently released honor and merit roll names for term 2. This information will appear in the Tuesday, Jan. 9, print edition. Honor Roll Fourth grade: Evan Avalos, Raylee Barnett, Allee Butler, Kaylynn Fisher, Jazlyn Hardcastle, Sidney Patterson and Ollivia Windhorst...

Area students have been recognized by their universities for achieving high marks in the fall semester. SNHU names Dean’s, President’s lists MANCHESTER, N.H. — Magan Tippen of Poplar Bluff has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Fall 2023 Dean’s List. The fall terms run from September to December...

Margret Moore “still feels blessed” after a vehicle crashed into the corner of her house at 1111 Fairmont St. at about 3:18 p.m. Saturday. “I’m fine, I have no injuries,” said Moore, who was in bed at the time. Her bed was moved two feet by the accident...

Darrel (Tank) Landreth, 72, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 at Westwood Hills Health Care Center, in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Landreth was born May 17, 1951 in Broseley, Missouri, son of the late Vernie and Clara Landreth. He is survived by one daughter, Karena (John) Causbie of Poplar Bluff; two sisters, Barbara Nasep of Poplar Bluff and Marna Smalley of Bossier City, Lousiana; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild...

Wilma Vearleen Liley, 87, was born April 6, 1936, in Shook, Missouri to Bert and Bertha (Fawbush) Richmann. She passed away Jan. 5, 2024, in West Plains, Missouri. She is preceded in death by her husband, Leonard Liley; son, Terry Dees; grandson, Ricky Gunnels; granddaughter, Taylor Dees; three sisters, Eula, Dora and Zella; and two brothers, O’Dell and Alvie...

By JONATHON DAWE Staff Writer If you have any ambitions to go walking in a winter wonderland, you might want to grab a raincoat and a scarf. According to the National Weather Service, the immediate forecast is wet and windy, and will soon be turning very cold. ...