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**UPDATE** 9:30 p.m. The Poplar Bluff Severe Weather Response Team reports straight line winds damaged a home, barn and carport around 7 p.m. on Highway 160 near Harviell, during a second round of severe weather. No injuries have been reported. Officials say scattered thunderstorms are expected overnight, but will be less severe.

Graduation days are full of emotion and surprises, but one senior received both during the Poplar Bluff R-1 Class of 2019 graduation ceremony Thursday evening. Drew Metz walked across the stage to receive his diploma and missed a certain someone standing to the side...

Poplar Bluff City Council members voted 4-3 Monday to accept a bid from Robertson Contractors, the second-lowest bidder, for upgrades to the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The vote comes after months of discussion, and a sometimes heated discussion on the matter Monday...

Navy veteran Robert McFarland lived in the woods near Bacon Park for years after his discharge. He later connected with Veterans Administration services, which helped place him with a variety of temporary housing units. Today, McFarland, 47, is one of the residents of Poplar Bluff Villas, a new group of housing complexes on Eugene Boulevard owned by the Missouri National Guard Foundation...

The Three Rivers College Class of 2019 list ran in error in the Thursday, May 16, edition of the Daily American Republic. The correct list appears in the Friday, May 17, edition. The DAR regrets the error and any inconvenience this may have caused...

**UPDATE** Council members have added this item to tonight’s voting agenda. A divide has developed among Poplar Bluff City Council members over a decision that will impact sewer rates for Municipal Utilities customers for the next 20 years. The matter will be discussed Monday by the city council. It was not listed as an action item on the agenda published Friday...

Area visitors and residents will be out in force along Missouri Hwy. 25 this weekend in search of bargains galore at the annual 100-Mile Yard Sale. The starting point of the sale begins on Hwy. 25 in Jackson, Mo. and spans south for one hundred miles to Kennett, Mo. The sale runs Thursday through Memorial Day...

By DONNA FARLEY Associate Editor Two major development projects for the downtown area were discussed Monday by the Poplar Bluff City Council. Downtown Poplar Bluff could see nearly a $1 million investment in the 400 block of Vine Street under a proposal that would use grant money and private funds, while the council voted to hire a firm to help with a new city complex project along Second Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Poplar Bluff man pleaded guilty Monday morning in federal court to illegally possessing the firearms and ammunition found during a 2017 search of his home. Rickey Lynn Hurt, 32, pleaded guilty as charged to the felony of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition before U.S. District Judge Ronnie White, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Sorrell...

DONIPHAN — A Ripley County jury deliberated nearly two hours Friday in convicting a Poplar Bluff man of more than a dozen felonies, including the kidnapping and sexual assault of his estranged wife. The jury of seven women and five men retired to begin its deliberations at 5:48 p.m. ...