Poplar Bluff News

A Wappapello man is dead after a rollover wreck in Butler County. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, it happened on U.S. Highway 60 at approximately 4:30 a.m. Saturday three miles east of Poplar Bluff.

The Stoddard County Ambulance District Board awarded the contract for paving the west parking lot at the new Ambulance Administrative Building in Dexter to R.L. Persons Construction, Inc.

A Cape Girardeau County jury convicted a Poplar Bluff, Mo., man Tuesday of an assault in which he was accused of striking another man with his vehicle and then apparently spinning its tires on top of him.

Three Rivers Community College adds an armed police chief to the campus. Shawn Westbrooks will be its first Chief of Police beginning next semester.

12, 1984 George O. Robinson, commander of Disabled American Veterans, Department of Missouri, speaks at the annual Veterans Day ceremonies; the program is held in the city hall gymnasium, following the Veterans Day parade.

Thelma Driver is a special education teacher at Poplar Bluff High School, and she's just one of eight minority teachers in the district.

Last week, the Black River was more than two and a half feet above flood stage, resulting in water damage for several businesses.

It is important to be involved in Poplar Bluff School District's search for a new superintendent, according to participants at two focus groups held Monday.

Friends and family of two-year-old Devin Fox are coping with the young boy's death.

Son to Jon Michael and Jennifer Katelyn Heuring of New Hamburg, Mo., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:42 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

Students in Southeast Missouri who don't go to school, could be facing the judge.

The city of Poplar Bluff is giving homeowners with flood damaged property a chance to move away from flood risk areas.

Friends and family of the three teens killed in a deadly crash in Poplar Bluff will get the chance to remember them during a special ceremony.

Hampton and Son Construction of Poplar Bluff is renovating the train depot in downtown Dexter.

Wrapping up a successful year touring off the strength of a Billboard No. 1 country album, Dierks Bentley said he plans to "give it all got" in Poplar Bluff.

The Poplar Bluff School District signed a contract Thursday night hiring the Missouri School Board Association to assist with the district's superintendent search.

When you get pulled over while driving, does the race or gender of the officer matter? The Missouri State Highway Patrol says no, but they do want their troopers to reflect Missouri's diverse population.

Drowning was the cause of death for all three Poplar Bluff High School students who died when a car overturned in a flooded creek at 7:31 a.m. Friday, according to Butler County Coroner Jim Akers.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt.

Three teenage boys were killed in a crash on Route PP Friday morning in Poplar Bluff.