Stories from Saturday, January 20, 2024

Among the headlines in this weekend’s roundup: The Poplar Bluff Fire Department reports fire damage dropped by 50% last year, a bill to found a Black university in Southeast Missouri goes before the General Assembly, a mail carrier bails when his Jeep slides off a bridge, typhoid is found in a local creek and a man practicing fast draws accidentally shoots his wife...

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the St. Louis district seized enough fentanyl in 2023 to kill 24 million people. The St. Louis DEA took possession of 735 pounds of fentanyl powder and more than 345,000 fentanyl-laced pills last year, according to a news release. That amount equates to about 24 million fatal doses...