Stories from Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Plans to finance the Downtown parking garage moved forward today. A petition by 60% of Downtown business owners called for the formation of a Downtown Special Benefit District. Jan. 30, 1924 • In Blytheville, Arkansas, 10 juvenile boys have been arrested for burglarizing a store owned by Chinese immigrants. The arrests happened yesterday (Jan. 29), several days after robbing the Y.G. Fong & Co. store, which declared bankruptcy afterwards...

The new 235 area code for parts of Missouri will take effect Saturday, Feb. 24. On and after Feb. 24, the previous 573 area code geographic footprint will also include the 235 area code. Anyone dialing a number in the affected region will need to use the full 10-digit number — area code and seven-digit number — for all calls...

Football Skills Youth Camp If you want to learn the ins and outs of football, the Poplar Bluff Elite Football Skills Camp is gearing up for another camp for the youth for first to seventh grade. It will be February 10th and 24th from 9 a.m. to 11 or 12 p.m. to 2 at the Moss Playplex in Harviell, MO...

Two are in custody after shots were fired in the Walmart parking lot in Dexter. Dexter Police Chief Hank Trout said Tuesday morning at 9:09 a.m., officers with the Dexter Police Department were dispatched to 2025 W. Bus Highway 60, Walmart Supercenter regarding a report of shots fired...

Hazel Alice Farrar, 74, of Fisk, Missouri, died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.

Christine Wielgos of the National Weather Service-Paducah encourages everyone to get certified as a trained Skywarn weather spotter. Wielgos conducted a spotter training seminar on Friday at the Poplar Bluff Police Department headquarters. NWS-Paducah, Kentucky, services Poplar Bluff and much of the surrounding region. Due to the location of Butler County, the radar in Paducah cannot always detect storms accurately...