Butler County News

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.

A Three Rivers Community College trustee questioned the recent Drury Southwest donation of the Pear Tree Inn and adjacent restaurant building, but found himself in the minority, apart from the college foundation which initially turned down the large gift.

A warrant was issued today for the arrest of a Poplar Bluff teenager after he was charged with squirting gasoline on another teen and then lighting him on fire.

Members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol's local marijuana eradication team have seized about 7,000 suspected marijuana plants this summer, including nearly 40 found growing on a Dunklin County ditch bank.

Twenty-seven-year-old Morgan Kile of Poplar Bluff will spend the next three years in federal prison on three felony counts of making false bomb threats by phone.

Gov. Jay Nixon has named a prison warden to the state parole board and appointed new judges to courts in northwest and southeast Missouri.

A Poplar Bluff School District student has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

The hopes of reclaiming this summer's crops are, for many area farmers, rooted in soybeans and a late fall.

A Butler County judge will decide later this month whether a Poplar Bluff teenager should be tried as an adult for allegedly squirting gasoline on another teen and then lighting him on fire.

A Butler County judge will decide later this month whether a Poplar Bluff teenager should be tried as an adult for allegedly squirting gasoline on another teen and then lighting him on fire.

The state school tax holiday is held the first Friday through Sunday in August each year to provide sales tax relief for consumers who purchase certain "back to school" items in preparation of the 2009- 10 school year.

An alcohol compliance check of nine businesses in Carter and Butler counties found that none of the businesses sold alcohol to minors.

Calvin Lee "CC" Smith Jr., 33, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was sentenced Monday to 20 years in a state prison for the murder of John Lee Griffin.

A "road trip" into Poplar Bluff to buy items for the alleged manufacture of methamphetamine sent a Piedmont, Mo., area man to jail after officers stopped to assist him when his vehicle overheated on U.S. 67 North.

I am trying to find the location of my great grandmother grave. The grave is in MO and is marked by an obelisk with the family name Corcoran at the base.

A man formerly of Butler County was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison this week for making threats by telephone to a public official.

A woman was rescued from a southeast Missouri pond after driving a car into it. Turned out it wasn't her car, and she was arrested on suspicion of car theft.

A Poplar Bluff woman believes God put her in the right place at the right time Tuesday morning to aid in the rescue of a woman trapped in her partially water-submerged car.

Noreen Hyslop Photo Dexter Fire Chief Al Banken served as Information officer for the HAZMAT event, with Jackson Bostic, environmental specialist with the DNR on hand to help direct and coordinate activities.

An apparent argument over stolen money sent a Poplar Bluff woman to the hospital with multiple stabs wounds and her alleged attacker to jail.