Poplar Bluff

Missouri’s New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is one of the most active seismic zones in the U.S.

State investigators say police in Poplar Bluff fatally shot a man they confronted during a burglary call.

A 35-year-old Moberly man will be sentenced in May after being found guilty of murder in the death of a Poplar Bluff man.

The federal government has closed a coronavirus testing lab in Missouri over concerns about test accuracy.

A 4-year-old child is dead after an accident at the Poplar Bluff Early Childhood Center in southeast Missouri.

A southern Missouri teacher who oversaw a history class presentation in which a ninth-grader dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan has apologized for a “lapse of judgment” and is suspended indefinitely, the superintendent of the predominantly white district said Tuesday.

A southeast Missouri mother and father have been charged with killing a man who attacked the couple's 12-year-old son during a monster truck event.

Authorities say a 16-year-old girl was killed and five other people were injured, some seriously, when two boats collided in southeast Missouri.

Poplar Bluff police are worried that tainted heroin, possibly laced with fentanyl, is on the streets of the southeast Missouri town after one death and five overdose calls in the past several days.

Prosecutors in southeast Missouri have decided not to file charges against a teenager who fatally shot a man who was allegedly holding a knife to his mother's throat.