Stories from Monday, March 4, 2024

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department, in collaboration with the Missouri Highway Patrol, arrested Larry Charles Musgraves Jr. and Carmen Grizel Musgraves, the owners of the ABM Ministries Lighthouse Christian Academy in Piedmont. The couple was arrested on charges of first-degree kidnapping...

If you hear a loud siren going off at 11 a.m. Wednesday, it is only a test (hopefully) of the local severe weather preparedness response. Butler County Emergency Management Director Robbie Myers believes everyone should participate.

Butler County Republican voters showed strong support for Donald Trump at Saturday’s Republican caucus. In total, 115 voters attended the event.

Eric Hicks, 56, of Poplar Bluff died Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Cape Girardeau.

Carl Tillman Swafford, 73 of Fairdealing, Missouri, passed away, Feb. 29,2024 in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 26, 1950, at Flatwoods, Missouri to the late George Leonard Swafford and Mary Luciele Gunter Swafford. On April 25, 1970, at Oxly, Missouri, he was married to Janath Kay Cox. She survives...

Joshua Woods reported Sunday, March 3, he had items stolen from a shopping cart he had left at a friend’s house located in the 400 Block of Henry Street. _ Officers responded Sunday, March 3, to the 300 block of North G Street to a domestic dispute. Officers made contact with Michael Crider and Phelicity White, who both said they were just arguing and nothing was physical. Neither White nor Crider wanted to press charges and both were advised of the Missouri domestic law...