Stories from Thursday, April 11, 2024

A Poplar Bluff man was arrested Tuesday for promoting and possession of child pornography. Joshua D. McKnight, 46, is being held in the Butler County jail on a $100,000 bond, following an investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol.. The investigation was conducted by the Special Victims Unit of the MSHP’s Division of Drug and Crime Control...

You may meet dinosaurs or Mark Twain in this week’s MAIN EVENT. Animatronic dinosaurs will be set up outside Walmart Neighborhood Market along with Optimus Prime for a one-day stop by I Heart Cookies on Saturday. Three Rivers College will also host “An evening with Mark Twain,” on Thursday, April 18. The night will recreate the famous Mark Twain road shows with stage actor Richard Garey on hand to share the author’s wit and wisdom...

Cars would fall out of favor and famine would grow as the energy crisis continued. This was the future former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall predicted during his presentation at Three Rivers Community College in 1974, during which he advocated for national conservation of resources. On this date in 1949, Poplar Bluff schools pleaded for votes on an important tax levy...

The criminal investigation into the death and alleged mistreatment of a Dexter police dog is broadening and continuing, Stoddard County Prosecutor Sawyer Smith said in a statement released late Wednesday. “Today I assure all Stoddard County Citizens this office is broadening and continuing the criminal investigation, and pursuing justice within the boundaries of legal ethics and under the language of applicable law as it does in each and every case,” Smith said.

Shelba Turner-Johnson, 83, was born in Naylor, Missouri April 13, 1940, to Daniel and Birdie Wertenberger. She departed for heaven April 10, 2024, at Oak Dale Care Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri where she had resided since she was severely injured in a car accident in 2017...

Esther M. Duckett, 78, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in St. Louis, Missouri with her loving son by her side. Esther was born March 28, 1946 in Poplar Bluff, to Ray Calvin Gilmore and Myrtle Viola (Breeden) Gilmore. Esther married John Duckett July 2, 1966 in Poplar Bluff...

Darin Gentles, 58, of Piedmont, Missouri, died Monday, April 8. Visitation is at 11 a.m., Friday, April 12, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont. Funeral will follow at 2 p.m. also in the Piedmont Chapel. Burial is in Forest Chapel Cemetery near Piedmont...

Sharing the community’s spirit of giving Monday earned the United Gospel Rescue Mission a nice tip.

A Poplar Bluff man was arrested Tuesday for promoting and possession of child pornography.

Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court Mary Russel visited the Poplar Bluff Court House on Monday as part of her goal of visiting every circuit in the state. Out of 46 circuits, Poplar Bluff is her 19th stop.

“We have made a lot of changes since 2020, and we’re hopeful that more changes will continue to be made for the positive,” said KVC Missouri Director Michael Turner.