Stories from Thursday, January 11, 2024

As the investigation continues, Poplar Bluff police are hoping to soon answer some questions surrounding the circumstances of shootings on Tuesday. According to police reports, at approximately 3:17 p.m. Jan. 9, officers with the Poplar Bluff Police Department were informed of a shooting victim being transported to the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Emergency Room. ...

Residents unfolded their papers in 1974 to learn of a local crime spree after Kennett and Poplar Bluff were struck by unrelated midnight robberies. Twenty-five years earlier, a massive winter storm froze (almost) all of Missouri. Jan. 11, 1924 — No issues available...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT A school bus driver reported at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9, a parent shouted threats and profanities at him on the afternoon of Jan. 8, after their child ran off the school bus at the wrong bus stop. The parent was contacted by phone and a criminal summons for peace disturbance was mailed to their residence...

What do you get when you cross a serious academic with multiple doctorate degrees, multiple vocations, and a deeply embedded love of the Ozark region? You get a fictional story about a fictional county in the state of Missouri that elicits laughter and, maybe even a nod of agreement because you just may have heard some variation of that story before...

Floyd Dale Vancel, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 at Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff.

•• Update Jan. 14 — Organizers have canceled this event due to inclement weather. The Poplar Bluff community will have its 38th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Program at 11 a.m. Monday at the Historic Wheatley School, 921 Garfield St. “Living the Dream: It Starts with Me — Spreading Hope, Courage and Unity” is the theme for this year’s event, said Erin Ceesay, chair of this year’s event...