POPLAR BLUFF FAMILY INDUCTED INTO MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Three members of a Poplar Bluff family are now a part of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
According to Poplar Bluff Athletics Director Kent Keith, the Godwin Golf Family was inducted into the Hall on Sunday.
Buddy Godwin won more than 100 amateur tournaments and was also an eight-time winner of the Ozark Open. He also won the Missouri Amateur in 1973 and later competed in several PGA Senior Tour events.
Bobby Godwin was a three-year letterman at Poplar Bluff High School, competing on the Mules’ 1980 and 1981 state championship teams. Beginning in 1989, he qualified for seven USGA events and won numerous local, state and national amateur tournaments, including the 1999 Missouri State Stroke Play championship, and was the Missouri Golf Association Player of the Year that year.
Ben Godwin lettered in golf for four years at Poplar Bluff, competing on the Mules’ 1988 state championship team. He began winning local and state amateur tournaments in 1990, qualifying for six USGA events. He won the two-man state team event with Bobby in 1998 and eventually won the Missouri Amateur in 2003 and 2006.
Buddy and Ben are only the second father-son duo to win the Missouri Amateur following Bill and Payne Stewart.
TWO ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTING TO FLEE FROM POLICE IN POPLAR BLUFF
Two people were taken into custody after allegedly attempting to flee from police over the weekend in Poplar Bluff.
According to the Poplar Bluff Police Department, on Saturday officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop near Harper and Highway 67, at which time the driver fled from police. A short time later officers located the vehicle as well as two subjects.
Officers also located several baggies of suspected narcotics where the subjects walked as well as matching foot prints.
42 year old Atari Amos and 20 year old Chloe Chaffin, both of Poplar Bluff, were arrested and transported to the Butler County Justice Center.
Officials say that charges for distribution of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting arrest were sent to the Butler County Prosecutor's Office.
MAN FLOWN FROM THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING IN NAYLOR
A subject was flown from the scene of an accidental shooting Monday morning in Ripley County.
According to the Ripley County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a residence in Naylor shortly before 4:30 am Monday, for a shooting.
The victim said he was pulling a rifle out from behind the seat of his truck when it discharged, striking him in the lower leg.
The victim was flown from the scene by helicopter.
KENNETT MAN RECEIVES OVER 100 YEAR SENTENCE IN CONNECTION TO STANDOFF IN SENATH
A standoff in Senath last year has resulted in an over 100 year sentence for a Kennett man.
25 year old Kenneth Canday was convicted in November for his role in a January 2024 incident where he and his codefendants lured a man to an apartment in Senath before beating, cutting, and burning him, along with robbing the victim of his cell phone.
The next day, police attempted to arrest the defendant when he barricaded the residence with two hostages inside. Hostage negotiators talked him into releasing one of the hostages approximately four hours into the standoff.
A SWAT team made entry approximately eight hours into the standoff, rescuing the second hostage and taking Canday into custody.
A Pemiscot County judge sentenced Canday to serve a total of
102 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, with the counts where Canday will have to serve the time consecutively to each other adding up to 41 years.
The charges included 1st degree kidnapping, 1st degree robbery, 2nd degree assault, and armed criminal action, among others.
WATERFOWL MEETINGS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEEK IN DEXTER AND PORTAGEVILLE
Officials with the Missouri Department of Conservation will be hosting waterfowl meetings this week in two Southeast Missouri towns.
The meetings have been scheduled for 7 to 9 pm tonight at Fisher Delta Regional Center in Portageville, and from 7 to 9 pm tomorrow at the National Guard Armory in Dexter.
The MDC is asking waterfowl hunters to provide input on hunting zone boundaries and season structure in Missouri for the next five-year period.
Participants will have the opportunity to review long-term data about weather, migration, habitat use, harvest, and hunter opinions, and discuss their season date and zone preferences with other hunters and local Conservation staff.
Hunter input gathered through the workshops combined with hunter opinion surveys will be used to establish Missouri’s 2026-2030 duck season dates and zones.
SIGN TRUSS REMOVAL WILL CAUSE TEMPORARY OVERNIGHT STOPPAGES ON US 60 AND I-57
U.S. Route 60 in New Madrid County and Interstate 57 in Mississippi County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction beginning tonight.
Officials say that traffic will be stopped for 15-minute intervals as construction crews replace an overhead sign truss.
Work will take place overnight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. beginning tonight and continuing through Friday, February 14th.
The work zone will be located from Route 62 to Route B near Sikeston.
NEW MADRID COUNTY ROAD CLOSED THIS WEEK FOR BRIDGE MAINTENANCE
Route D in New Madrid County will be closed this week as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance.
The bridge is located from Route 153 to County Road 531 near Parma.
Weather permitting, work will take place from from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through Thursday.
