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A Piggott, Arkansas couple’s family doubled in size shortly before noon Tuesday when Brandi Householder delivered triplets at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Brandi and her husband, Jason, along with Dr. Donald Jones are praising the Lord for the safe delivery of the babies, Caleb, Aaron and Sarah. They join siblings Elisabeth, 10; Phillip, 4; and Lydia, who is 13 months old...

An extended investigation into illegal housing and other activities at a building in the 200 block of South Main Street in downtown Poplar Bluff culminated in the execution of a search warrant Monday morning. Six people were arrested, including an unregistered sex offender, and 26 were evicted from the property. Until further notice, the building has been condemned by city officials.

A partial trail of suspected stolen jewelry led Butler County authorities to a Williamsville man found hiding in a wooded area off of Kanell Boulevard on Monday night. The location where Donald Wayne Sanders was found was about 100 yards away from the crashed Ford Ranger he and Marty Lewis Luke allegedly had fled from deputies in a short time earlier...

When he moved back to his hometown after retiring from a career in public education in 1988, Tom Lawson recalled his wife asking, “You have been busy all your life. What are you going to do when we get to Poplar Bluff.” As it turned out, a lot. There was help in getting a half-cent capital improvement tax passed, his 12 years as city manager during which the Black River Coliseum was built, the library expanded as well as parks and more city streets were paved...

Jamaican mother Geneva Bennett didn’t have access last January to the C-section that could have prevented her daughter, Isabel, from tearing the nerves in her arm as she became stuck in the birth canal for over six minutes. But thanks to two Poplar Bluff residents and the Shriners Hospitals for Children in St. Louis, little Izzy received surgery Tuesday to begin repairing that damage...

A Poplar Bluff woman was arrested late Saturday after allegedly getting into a drunk driving accident in a stolen vehicle. According to police, Jennifer Maliah Councilor, 27, was westbound on Victor shortly before 10 p.m. when she pulled into the path of a vehicle traveling north on Ditch Road...

The winter weather storm forecasted for the Southeast Missouri regional is moving in earlier than predicted and weather spotters and public safety officials are warning everyone to stay off the streets and highways. Craig Meador of the Poplar Bluff Severe Weather Response Team expected the storm to impact travel in the region and already has hit west and north of Poplar Bluff...

Parents will have choice for students to attend elementary or middle school.

Poplar Bluff is making changes to strengthen enforcement and improve regulations designed to help clean up neighborhoods, city manager Mark Massingham said this week. Some members of an advisory board created to help come up with ideas to improve the city recently questioned why the process isn’t stronger already...