Stories from Thursday, April 18, 2024

A Poplar Bluff native who is helping take “the deepest observations of the universe to date,” recently made time to share some of that information with visitors to Three Rivers College. Isaac Laseter is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of James Webb Space Telescope research team called the Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey...

KENNETT — A Kennett man described by a judge as a “child predator” has been sentenced to 50 years in prison. Matthew Prewett, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of first degree statutory rape and eight counts of invasion of privacy, according to a press release Wednesday from Dunklin County Prosecutor Nicholas Jain...

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Saint Francis Foundation recently hosted its first Mobile Wellness Day of Caring event of 2024 in Hayti. Mobile Wellness provided walk-in mammograms to 19 area residents. Saint Francis Foundation grilled lunch for 160 residents, distributed free food, hygiene kits, paper towels and more than 1,600 diapers to more than 200 families. The event is just one of ten dates planned for this year...

Officers were dispatched Wednesday, April 17, to the 2100 block of Spring Street in reference to trespassing. Contact was made with Macie Schrage on scene. Communications advised Schrage had active warrants through the city of Poplar Bluff and Butler County. Schrage was processed and lodged in the Butler County jail...

A line of severe storms will be traveling through southeast Missouri this afternoon as well as throughout the evening. There does not appear to be any risk of tornadoes as of yet. According to Keith Cooley, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky., the bootheeel area will likely see strong thunderstorms as well as some possible hail as the line of storms advances through the region...

Bud Barker, 71, of Naylor, Missouri passed away at his residence April 17, 2024. He was born Aug, 6, 1952, at Poplar Bluff, Missouri to Eugene Barker and Imogene Barker. He was married to Pam Day at Corning, Arkansas in 1970. She survives. Also surviving are two sons, Dewayne Barker and wife, Tara, of Dexter, Missouri and Marcus Barker and wife, Dana, of Naylor; his mother, Imogene Barker of Neelyville, Missouri, as well as four sisters, Barbara Perkins of Poplar Bluff, Kay Anderson of Neelyville, Brenda Morgan and Dora Daughhetee, both of North Carolina; one brother, Ronnie Barker of Poplar Bluff, and grandchildren, Randi, Cole, Shaye and Tye.. ...

Marie Chris Nichols, 78, of Farmington, Missouri, died Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in St. Louis, Missouri. Visitation is at 11 a.m., Saturday April 20, 2024, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont Chapel. Funeral service is at 1 p.m., also in the Piedmont Chapel. Burial following in Mt. View Cemetery, Des Arc...

Seasonal farmland burns and arsons are fed by dry conditions in 1949, leading to widespread wildfires in Northwest Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. A different kind of hot air blows into circuit court on this date in 1974, when two candidates square off via lawsuit...

It was the morning of the eclipse, and Poplar Bluff Regional Business Airport was just starting to swarm with activity. Suddenly, there was an outbreak of cheers from a group of family members waiting next to the fence separating the parking lot from the runways...

KENNETT — A Kennett man described by a judge as a “child predator” has been sentenced to 50 years in prison. Matthew Prewett, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of first degree statutory rape and eight counts of invasion of privacy, according to a press release Wednesday from Dunklin County Prosecutor Nicholas Jain...

Teams and individuals motivated to join the 2024 UCAN Sarah Jarboe White Walk April 27 don’t have to preregister. The annual walk will begin outside of the Danny Bell Cancer Treatment Center at 2620 N. Westwood Blvd. Participants are asked to show up no later than 9:30 a.m. and they may walk or run whatever distance they want “when we hit the streets at 10 a.m.,” said UCAN Executive Director Melody Chailland...