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City fire crews are on the scene of a major fire on Ditch Road. According to reports from the scene, portions of Quality Tech Transmission are fully engulfed. This is an evolving story and will be updated as soon as information becomes available.

Four people were injured – three of them seriously – in a two-car accident shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday on County Road 604, about a quarter mile east of Poplar Bluff shortly, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Two victims had to be evacuated from the scene by helicopter to St. Louis hospitals, according to authorities...

Poplar Bluff Middle School will see a new assistant principal for the 2021-22 school year, though it’s one intimately familiar with the school and its students. “I am super excited. It’s something that I have looked forward to doing,” said Shelly Ridens, who was hired by the R-1 board to fill the assistant principal position during its Feb. 25 meeting...

A hundred years from now, the name Dylan Acevedo may be as important to the history of Poplar Bluff’s downtown as George Begley’s became in the mid-1800s. That’s because Acevedo, 29, is about to make a splash in the same building and on the same block that the historic entrepreneur Begley left his indelible mark on downtown Poplar Bluff...

Poplar Bluff city leaders expect to seek new bids for 25 acres of property on Shelby Road near the planned site of a new police department. One bid for a total of $45,000 was received for the property, which was packaged as five separate lots in a proposal published by the city at the beginning of February...

Nathan Bridges credits his mom for creating the necessity that mothered his invention. That’s because there were no handouts at the Bridges household. The 20-year-old Patterson furniture redesigner was told by his mom that if he wanted money to spend, he would have to find a way to earn it...

Two Poplar Bluff elementaries have been named 2020 National ESEA Distinguished Schools, the first time in the 25-year history of the program that each of Missouri’s designees were a part of the same school system, a state official has confirmed. Eugene Field earned the award for closing the achievement gap between student groups, while Lake Road was named for its exceptional student performance and academic growth for two consecutive years. ...