Stories from Friday, November 8, 2024

Representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency presented preliminary flood maps for Butler County to county, cit, and state officials Wednesday afternoon. With the District 12 Levee still not accredited, the East Side of Poplar Bluff was shown as Zone AE, a special flood hazard area...

Meredith Ray Boyers, 88, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away at 6:42 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at his home in rural Poplar Bluff. He was surrounded by his family, having realized his greatest wish-to take his last breath on his beloved cattle and horse farm of over 67 years...

Two words dominated the presidential campaign from the beginning to the end: gas and groceries. For all the twists and turns — Joe Biden dropping out, Kamala Harris jumping in, Donald Trump getting shot — the race remained remarkably static. Inflation is always the most damaging issue because it directly affects every family every day, and the rising price of goods during the Biden administration was the single biggest reason Trump won a second term...

In the last several days, the country has been making difficult history. In the past year, its government has been warping history. The forced removal of Japanese Americans during World War II has disappeared. The support of the Equal Rights Amendment by first lady Betty Ford has vanished. The invention of the birth-control pill has passed from sight. The work of Martin Luther King Jr. is played down...

Dakota Loggins used to want to be a chef, serving his own recipes to a hungry public; but he ended up serving justice to criminals while also serving the public.

The Poplar Bluff Veterans’ Council and the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center will honor all veterans with a special program Monday at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Wall in front of the Black River Coliseum. The event will feature a presentation of wreaths and a POW/MIA ceremony. Bardis Dismuke, veteran and vice president of VVA Chapter 1056, will deliver the keynote address. The Poplar Bluff High School Choir will perform, and the SEMO Honor Guard will conduct a 21-gun salute...

KENNETT — A jury in Pemiscot County has found Kenneth Canday, 25, guilty of 13 felonies, including kidnappings, assaults, robbery, weapons offenses, and resisting arrest. The verdict was delivered Tuesday, following a two-day trial presided over by Judge Joshua D. Underwood...

Southeast Missouri celebrated a local son today as Sam A. Baker was declared winner of the 1924 governor’s race. Baker came from Wayne County and was previously a teacher, superintendent and Missouri State Superintendent of Schools. Other headlines today included a unique school funding strategy and civic improvements in Poplar Bluff.

Disaster Preparedness Event

A 20-year-old Poplar Bluff man died Thursday night in a motorcycle crash in Butler County.

Officers responded Friday, Nov. 8, to a facility in the 2000 block of Three Rivers Boulevard, in reference to loitering. It was determined that the subject was present on the property without good reason, and the subject was then trespassed from the property. This case is closed...