Stories from Tuesday, December 3, 2019

A pickup truck hit the front of a Westwood Boulevard business at approximately 9:30 a.m. No information concerning injuries was available as of 10 a.m. Additional information will be updated here and in the Daily American Republic print edition as it becomes available...

City firefighters responded at 3:06 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, to a shed fire at the 1611 N. 14th St. residence owned by Carol Shriber. According to the report, firefighters found light smoke coming out of one side of a small shed and used 20 gallons of water to put out the fire...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT Anthony Lee Dillon Allbritton, 25, of the 1200 block of Velma Street was booked at the Butler County jail Monday, Nov. 2, on suspicion of second-degree harassment. _ Dejuan Matthew Brady, 26, of Doniphan was booked at the Butler County jail Monday, Dec. 2, on a failure to appear warrant for no valid license...

The National Weather Service reports temperatures this year missed the mark on fall weather, jumping straight from summer highs to winter norms. The Fall Seasonal Summary, Sept. 1 through Nov. 30, shows temperatures averaged out near normal for the fall season, but they were no where near normal the majority of the time, according to the NWS...

BLOOMFIELD — A former deputy clerk has settled a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against Stoddard County for nearly $95,000. Ginger McCoy had sued Stoddard County Clerk Cecil Weeks individually and in his official capacity, as well as Stoddard County, after she was fired April 8 for allegedly questioning irregularities in the April 2 municipal election...

FISK, Mo. - Saturday is the deadline to enter the second annual Fisk Lighted Christmas parade, which will be Saturday, Dec. 21. Last year’s event was “so successful,” said Raymond Stewart, president of the Fisk planning committee. “We want to invite everybody to join in and make a float. We would like to have everyone enter by Dec. 7 or before. Drop the entries at the Fisk City Hall or Stewart and Son Groceries,” Stewart said...

A Butler County judge sentenced a former Naylor assistant principal to 15 years in prison Tuesday afternoon for sexually assaulting a female student on campus in 2015. John Franklin Mullins appeared before Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett for sentencing, having pleaded guilty in October to the unclassified felony of first-degree statutory sodomy. He was accompanied by his attorney, Dan Moore...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As part of his Safe Citizens Initiative, Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Tuesday his office has successfully secured a refund for a Carter County resident, who was ripped off by a chair lift company. The citizen, who is an elderly, disabled veteran, paid over $2,000 to Ameriglide for installation of a chair lift in his home, according to a press release from Schmitt’s office. The company never installed the lift and refused to refund his money...

VAN BUREN — Carol Blanche Sanders, 85, of Van Buren, died Dec. 2, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5 at the McSpadden Funeral Home in Van Buren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6 in the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in the Van Buren City Cemetery in Van Buren...

Geraldine Riggins 77 of Poplar Bluff was called home by God at 1:05 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Riggins, the daughter of the late Ira and Martha (Vaughn) Hardin, was born Aug. 15, 1942 in Graves County, Ky. She was a faithful member of Cornerstone Tabernacle Church and was a Licensed Practical Nurse. ...

DONIPHAN - The state’s key witness in a Ripley County murder case testified Tuesday that she was too scared to look, but could hear sounds of a man being beaten in the back seat of the car in which she was a front-seat passenger. Schylar A. Tubbs, 25, testified in Ripley County Circuit Court during the first of five preliminary hearings scheduled Tuesday for the defendants charged with the July 21 murder of 44-year-old Daniel Lee Richardson...