Stories from Sunday, October 1, 2023

**UPDATE: Jonathan O'Dell who escaped from Phelps County Jail was taken into custody without incident in Ray County at approximately 5 p.m Sunday, Oct. 1 by the FBI, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Ray County Sheriff's Office.** The FBI and Phelps County Sheriff’s Office are searching for an inmate who escaped the Phelps County Jail at approximately 11:09 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. Inmate Jonathan S. O’Dell and another inmate, Steven Timothy Scott, escaped by comprising the structural integrity of the cell and exiting the building. A short time later, Scott turned himself in. O’Dell is facing federal charges...

DOGWOOD, Mo. — Louis Burnett Johnson, age 83, of Dogwood and formerly of Festus, Missouri, passed away Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri He was born Feb. 7, 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri, to the late Burnett Jefferson Johnson and Blanche I. ...