Stories from Thursday, May 12, 2022

The Twin Rivers R-X District has announced Rob Brown as the incoming superintendent. Brown comes to Twin Rivers with 22 years of education experience, including four years as Twin Rivers head basketball coach. Most recently he served six years as high school principal at Aurora High School in Aurora...

The Poplar Bluff Fire Department’s new, more versatile battery-powered tools in its rescue equipment toolbox are light years ahead of hydraulic devices, Poplar Bluff Fire Chief Mike Moffitt said. “We’ve replaced a set of our hydraulic rescue tools, they were 18 years old, with the new set of battery-powered extrication tools,” he explained...

A Butler County jury took less than an hour and a half to find Steven E. Hardcastle, 48, of Poplar Bluff, guilty of statutory sodomy in the first degree and two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree. He faces up to 60 years in prison. The conviction is the culmination of a case beginning three years ago. ...

POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT Brennan Norman, 35, of Poplar Bluff, was booked on charges of careless and imprudent driving, resisting arrest plus creating a substantial risk of death or serious injury, leaving the scene of an accident, and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. Norman was lodged at the Butler County Jail...