Butler County News

Would-be thieves stole a pickup Monday morning and then crashed it into the Green Forest Grocery on Township Line Road in an apparent attempt to steal the store's automated teller machine.

An autopsy Monday at a Farmington, Mo., hospital determined a Poplar Bluff man died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Two Butler County teenagers were arraigned Monday morning on charges they burglarized CiCi's Pizza, where both were employees, and allegedly stole a large amount of quarters.

It will be several weeks before authorities know what caused the death of a Poplar Bluff woman found dead Saturday in her bathtub.

The Butler County/Poplar Bluff Major Case Squad was activated Saturday afternoon to investigate the death of an unidentified male found at a location east of Poplar Bluff.

Two southeast Missouri burglary suspects are in custody, and they can blame a stalled car for their capture.

People in part of Butler County say they've had to deal with vandalism, mostly graffiti.

Authorities believe a group of about eight teenagers used spray paint and water-based chalk to deface vehicles, homes and municipal buildings in Qulin, a small town in Butler County.

A new soybean processing plant is coming to southeast Missouri and bringing new jobs with it.

The Butler County Sheriff's Department responded to a shooting on County Road 644 Saturday evening.

A young Georgia boy, visiting relatives in the Fisk area, was shot Saturday evening during what authorities believe began as a fight among brothers on the banks of the St.

A Poplar Bluff, Mo., man was sentenced to prison Tuesday for carjacking a woman at the Rhodes 101 in the Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot at Poplar Bluff.

A rural Sikeston man will stand trial by a jury next week for the shooting death of a Morehouse man last year.

At first, Donna Sue Bynum was reported missing. Now, the 40-year-old southeast Missouri woman is accused in a Florida bank robbery.

Tuesday night around 10 p.m. Minor Police puller over 22 year old Jessica Todd of Poplar Bluff, not realizing a possible DWI would turn into a major drug bust.

Autopsies were set to be performed this morning in Farmington, Mo., on the bodies of a Poplar Bluff woman and her daughter who died in a weekend house fire.

Yesterday Governor Matt Blunt announced Butler County has been awarded almost 19-thousand dollars to go towards repairing the Black River Levee near Poplar Bluff .

A Poplar Bluff man is free on bond after turning himself in Tuesday morning on a warrant charging him with possessing child pornography.

The accident-prone intersection at Highways 67, 158 and 160 nine miles south of Poplar Bluff will be replaced with an interchange during a four-laning project that is on the state's proposed five-year ...

After the death of a Butler County teen, friends are mourning her absence with a candlelight vigil.