Stories from Monday, May 13, 2024

Top Poplar Bluff High School senior Addison Shell has been awarded the $1,000 Missouri School Boards’ Association annual student scholarship from 220 applicants submitted throughout the region. The student was formally recognized during the Board of Education meeting held Thursday, April 18, in the Administrative Building...

Two Harviell brothers have been arrested in the shooting of a Butler County man. Butler County deputies were called Sunday to Lone Hill Baptist Church on State Highway F in Harviell, Sheriff Mark Dobbs said. “(Christopher) Denny had an obvious laceration to his head and multiple injuries to his arms, one of which was a gunshot wound to his wrist,” Dobbs said. ...

Have a career, don’t always be looking for a job, those are the words of advice Kent Wagner had for his son, Brody, as the 18-year-old graduated Saturday from Neelyville High School. He always has advice for his children, said the elder Wagner, who was feeling the emotion of having his third and last one cross the stage...

Neelyville High’s top graduates are valedictorian Hannah Hover and salutatorian Jessica Henry. Hover is president of the Beta Club and editor of the school newspaper. She also participated in Future Business Leaders of America and worked on the yearbook...

A trio of Twin Rivers R-X seniors were at the top of the 2024 graduating class. Brooke (Makayla) Kok, 19, and Alissa Stanley, 18, share the co-valedictorian honor. Brett Robards, 18, is salutatorian. They each credited hard work, their families, faith and their teachers with their success...

Lois Lyvonne Gunn went home to be with her Heavenly Father May 12, 2024, attaining the earthly age of 83. Lois was born June 1, 1940 to the late Rev. Harvey Lee “Harve” Darnell and Mattie Mae Darnell in Stringtown, Missouri. She was a familiar face in the hardware department at the Poplar Bluff Walmart for many years until her retirement. On May 27, 1999, she married her true soulmate, Herschel Gunn, he survives...

Brandon Sullivan, 21, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 3:31 a.m. Monday, May 13, during a burglary investigation at Poplar Bluff Mini Storage. Sullivan was booked on a Probation and Parole warrant for a probation violation/absconder (no bond) and multiple Butler County warrants. Sullivan was also booked on the charge of burglary second-degree and lodged in the Butler County jail...