Stories from Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Curtis Hinton, 67, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois Curtis was born on October 8, 1953 to Levell and Elsie Hinton in Wynne, Arkansas. He married Loretta Randolph on December 16, 1972 in Poplar Bluff...

A Butler County judge has certified the results of a hand recount for a Poplar Bluff use tax measure, with the item failing 377-380. The recount of 757 ballots took approximately an hour and a half Wednesday morning, said Butler County Clerk Tonyi Deffendall...

Jon Michael Morgan, Sr., of Poplar Bluff, passed away Wednesday, April 7, 2021. He was born October 5, 1975 in Madisonville, Kentucky to Jacqueline (Holmes) Morgan and the late Charles Morgan. He had a talented voice and played the guitar as well as an avid fisherman...

David Bernard Dilley, 54, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Saturday, February 27, 2021. He was born July 22, 1966 in Alderson, West Virginia to the late Thurman and Mary (Smith) Dilley. He was a longtime resident of Poplar Bluff. He was an avid fisherman and loved his music...

An hour of your time could save a life. University of Missouri Extension will offer free one-hour suicide prevention training sessions online in April and May. QPR Gatekeeper Training helps participants “question, persuade and refer” someone who may be suicidal, says MU Extension health and safety specialist Karen Funkenbusch. QPR was created in 1995 by clinical psychologist Paul Quinnett as an emergency mental health intervention for suicidal persons...

The Missouri National Guard and the Butler County Health Department will hold a mid-sized COVID vaccination clinic from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Friday, April 23, at the Poplar Bluff Elks Lodge. Butler County Health Department Director Emily Goodin made the announcement during the COVID briefing Wednesday...

Missouri’s youth turkey hunters squeaked out a slightly better harvest during last weekend’s special season than they did a year ago. Overall, young hunters tagged 2,771 birds, which was up slightly from 2,712 last year and is the best total since 2017, when 4,060 were taken...

ROLLA — A partnership between Mark Twain National Forest, Mingo Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center and Umatilla National Forest in Oregon made it possible for a forest service crew staffed by military veterans to share on-the-job training and mentoring for high-performing Mingo JC CCC students based out of Puxico...

Poplar Bluff man remains in the Butler County jail after his Tuesday arrest on charges of sexual trafficking of a child. The arrest of Chester Scott Burress, 61, was the result of an investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control’s Digital Forensics Investigative Unit and the Missouri Digital Forensic Center...

A Doniphan man is being held without bond on a charge of molesting a girl less than 12 years old. Arlis Greathouse Jr., 43, was arrested about 9 a.m. Sunday, April 4, after walking into a local motel lobby and asking for the police to be called so he could turn himself in. He was arrested there by Doniphan City Police...

The Twin Rivers R-X School Board held its monthly meeting Tuesday and selected the board president, vice president, secretary and treasurer for the coming year. Jeff Arnold was elected new board president and outgoing president Billy Watson was chosen as vice-president...