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A Poplar Bluff native with strong ties to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department has been chosen to succeed longtime Director Clark Allen, who retires in August. Lanny Corcimiglia, 48, was selected Wednesday by the park’s board of directors in an 8-1 vote. He will begin Aug. 5 at a salary of $65,000...

The Ellington man who was the subject of a recent endangered silver advisory may face charges in Butler County after he allegedly wrote a bad check for nearly $30,000 for the purchase of a new car. The advisory was issued by Ellington Police Department after Richard Elmer Dorey, 78, was last seen at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Brent B. Tinnin Manor, 200 Euel Polk Drive...

A study is expected to begin this year into the logjams that continue to choke the Black River south of Poplar Bluff, and which have been blamed for the frequent flooding of homes, farmland and roads in southern Butler County. The study will help determine options for dealing with the problem and comes after more than four years of effort by Butler County officials to reach a resolution with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

A Poplar Bluff man died of natural causes Monday morning while being housed in the Butler County Justice Center. An autopsy was performed on the body of Donald Ray Herrold III, 44, Tuesday morning by Dr. Russell Deidiker at Farmington, said Butler County Coroner Andy Moore...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Poplar Bluff man pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon in federal court to three counts of distributing heroin. Quinton J. Williams pleaded guilty as charged to the felony of aiding and abetting in the distribution of heroin and two felonies of distribution of heroin before Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr., according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Sorrell...

Rumor has it, the Poplar Bluff Street Department paved over brick in the downtown area one early morning in June. It sparked multiple phone calls on the morning of the work, but street Superintendent Jerry Lawson says the fresh asphalt actually replaced deteriorated pavement that was 30 years old...

After two years of vigorous fundraising, including hosting dozens of concerts and special events, Rodgers Theatre, Inc. Board of Directors President Wally Duncan says the organization now has full funding to begin replacing the three sections of roofing on the 70-year-old building...

Cindy Jenks of Fairdealing achieved a position in June that she’d been working toward for 15 years. Jenks was elected president of the National Federation of Democratic Women (NFDW) at the organization’s annual convention in Albany, New York. She started with the organization in 2004 when the Democratic Women’s Club of Ripley County was started. ...

Like many of the storms the Poplar Bluff Severe Weather Response Team monitors, a donation came out of nowhere fast. Director Craig Meador says local resident, Art Fisher, was a “good concerned citizen” kind enough to fill the team’s need for a generator. Fisher read Tuesday’s story in the DAR about the group’s efforts to finance the generator and responded...