Stories from Tuesday, October 20, 2020

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 32-year-old Farmington man was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 10:05 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, on U.S. 67, one-half mile west of Silva. According to the report, Christopher K. Boren was operating a 2014 Kia Forte southbound when it ran off the right side of the road, struck a guard rail and then travelled off the left side of the road. Boren’s vehicle reportedly came to rest in the median...

City firefighters responded at 5:12 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, to assist emergency-medical-services in lifting a patient from an ambulance into 301 E. Neat St. _ City firefighters responded at 3:35 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, to assist in loading a patient into a private vehicle at 2006 Arkansas Ave. for transport to the hospital...

FISK, Mo. — Robert “Bob” Allen Johnson, 63, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Monday, Oct. 19, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Johnson was born July 10, 1957 in Poplar Bluff, to the late Claude Junior Johnson and Evelyn Johnson McFarlen...

DONIPHAN — The courts in Ripley County will step down to operating phase one Wednesday after a courthouse employee tested positive for COVID-19. Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett signed an order Tuesday notifying the Missouri Supreme Court of the move to a lower operating phase. It applies to both the county courts and the Doniphan Municipal Division...

CAPE GIRARDEAU — A former Poplar Bluff police officer pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday morning to a child pornography charge. Brandon Michael Hopper, 40, pleaded guilty via Zoom to the felony of sexual exploitation of a minor (production of child pornography) before U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr., according to Assistant U.S. Attorney John Koester...

Poplar Bluff Street Department crews recently finished an ambitious road repair project near Hillcrest Park, which, Superintendent Jerry Lawson said, could have become a big problem if not taken care of. The work centered around the intersection of Relief and Second streets and an underground tunnel beneath the road there, Lawson said.“There’s a stormwater tunnel that runs underground under the softball field at Hillcrest Park, through the intersection,” Lawson explained...

The Twin Rivers R-X school district recently experienced a slight uptick in COVID-19 cases.