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Three Rivers College students hold mock disaster training

Submitted by KFVS Web Staff
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, 12:44pm

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS)- With the tragedies in Boston and West, Texas, still fresh in their minds, nursing and paramedic students from Three Rivers College held a mass casualty training drill this morning in Poplar Bluff.

The drill is designed to simulate what it would be like to respond to a disaster where there are multiple injuries and deaths.

Students set up emergency triage tents, and treated multiple patients during a fake arson fire.

And even though it was just a drill, the college tried to simulate a potentially chaotic situation.

you hold back key elements of what's going to happen with the event so there are surprises so all the participants have to react to an unknown.

In all, more than sixty students took part in the drill along with the Poplar Bluff Police and Fire Departments.

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Butler County man orders pot in the mail

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Monday, May 6th, 2013, 9:40pm
(Source: Butler County Sheriff's Department)

BUTLER COUNTY, MO (KFVS)- Authorities in Butler County made a marijuana bust on drugs that traveled to the Heartland through the mail.

The Butler County Sheriff's Department teamed up with the Semo Drug task for to make the bust. They seized about half a pound.

Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs said someone sent medical marijuana to Missouri, where one man allegedly planned to distribute it.

John Riggins is charged with felony distribution of a controlled substance and a felon in possession of a firearm.

"It's a rare thing because usually it's imported from Mexico, or it's grown locally, we're just starting to see this kind of a thing where the actual medicinal marijuana is coming into play," said Dobbs.

He said the fact that people can get these drugs through the mail from another state, poses a real challenge.

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Poplar Bluff Schools speech teachers recognized

Submitted by Steve Pobst on Monday, May 6th, 10:42 am
Poplar Bluff Schools speech teachers recognized

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

In accordance, the Poplar Bluff R - I school district has chosen this month to recognize it's speech teachers.

The team of speech-language pathologists at Poplar Bluff Schools play a crucial role in helping the district reach its mission: Achieving excellence through learning: every child, every hour, every day.

This year, Donna Baller of the 5th & 6th Grade Center was named Middle School Grade Span Teacher of the Year.

The previous school year, Judy Seawel of the Kindergarten Center was named District Teacher of the Year.

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Man, woman injured in rural Butler County wreck

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Sunday, May 5th, 2013, 11:18am

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS)- A Poplar Bluff man and woman were seriously injured in a rural Butler County crash Sunday morning.

According to Missouri Highway Patrol, it happened shortly before 4 a.m. on County Road 521, 3/10 of a mile east of US Highway 67.

Troopers say Tommy J. Rucker, 31, was driving an Isuzu Rodeo when it ran off the right side of road and hit a tree.

Rucker and a passenger, Holly Wallace, 31, both received serious injuries. They were taken by ambulance to a Poplar Bluff hospital for treatment.

Troopers say they were both wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.

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Phi Theta Kappa donates clothing to women's shelter

Submitted by Steve Pobst on Sunday, May 5th, 10:47 am
Phi Theta Kappa donates clothing to women's shelter

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) -  A greek organization at Three Rivers Community College donated clothing to the local women's shelter.

Phi Theta Kappa donated clothing to to Haven House, Inc., in Poplar Bluff.

Haven House, Inc., is one of the organizations that receive donations from the Summer Clothes Drive sponsored by the Three Rivers chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.

Clothes were also donated to the Ozark Family Resource Agency in Doniphan.

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2 day Heartland rainfall totals

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Saturday, May 4th, 2013, 12:28pm

PADUCAH, KY (KFVS)- With the latest round of rainfall hitting our area, rivers are on the rise once again. Here is a breakdown of rivers are at risk of flooding and who got the most rainfall amounts.

According to the National Weather Service, here are the unofficial two day rain totals in inches ending at 7 a.m. Saturday:

Missouri

Cape Girardeau Airports 1.69

Poplar Bluff Airport 2.36

Perryville 2.12

Wappapello Dam 2.46

Fisk 2.46

Patterson 2.57

Doniphan 2.69

Van Buren 2.48

Illinois

Carbondale Airport 1.32

Brookport, IL 1.15

Cairo, IL 2.25

Mount Vernon, IL 0.78

Kentucky

Paducah Airport 1.37

Benton, 1.32

According to the National Weather Service of Paducah, as of this Saturday morning river gauges are as follows:

Missouri

Minor Flooding

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Poplar Bluff student awarded competitive honors program scholarship

Submitted by Steve Pobst on Saturday, May 4th, 10:37 am
Poplar Bluff student awarded competitive honors program scholarship

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - Adrienne Burfield of the Poplar Bluff High School Class of 2013 has been awarded a $15,000 annually renewable scholarship in the University of Alabama - Birmingham Honors Program, where she plans to pursue her professional degree in medicine so she can enter the pediatric care field.

Burfield, 18, will graduate high school with 74 credit hours from Three Rivers College, having maintained a 4.0 GPA at the secondary and higher education institutions, respectively.

In December, she was the first student to complete her associate degree requirements through College Now, a dual credit program between the community college and PBHS.

On top of the necessary 62 credits, Burfield opted to continue to take college courses this spring semester. 

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