BERNIE RESIDENT WINS FIRST PLACE IN MISSOURI DNR PHOTO CONTEST
A Bernie resident has taken home first place in a statewide photo contest.
On Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources announced the winners for the 2025 MoDNR Photo Contest.
Bernie’s Lyndsey Neely won 1st place in the People Enjoying Missouri’s Outdoors Category.
The photo featured a young child playing in the mud in the first Bernie cotton field.
The winning photographs can be found on the Missouri Resources magazine website at missouriresources.mo.gov.
PUBLIC MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THIS MONTH TO DISCUSS REPLACING BRIDGE OVER ST. FRANCIS RIVER IN FISK
The Missouri Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing this month to discuss replacing the Route 51 bridge over the St. Francis River in Butler County.
The hearing will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28th at the Fisk Community Center on Garfield Street.
The project includes replacing this aging structure with a new, wider bridge. The current bridge is 21 feet wide, and the new bridge will be 36 feet wide.
During construction, Route 51 will be closed in the vicinity of the bridge with traffic detouring to use Route DD in Fisk. The Fisk St. Francis River access will remain open, but boat traffic will not be able to travel south during construction.
Tentatively, the project is expected to be let in November 2026. Construction could start as early as the beginning of 2027. Completion is anticipated approximately nine months after the start of construction.
The public hearing will be open house style, and visitors can stop by anytime between 4 and 6 p.m. to discuss the details of the proposals with the project team.
TEENAGER SERIOUSLY INJURED IN STODDARD COUNTY CRASH
An area teenager was one of two people injured in a crash Monday afternoon in Stoddard County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 16 year old girl, from Dexter, was a passenger in a vehicle on US Highway 60 when the vehicle failed to yield to another vehicle.
The girl, who was not wearing a safety device, was ejected during the wreck and later taken to a Cape Girardeau hospital with serious injuries.
The driver of the second vehicle received minor injuries in the collision.
BICYCLIST STRUCK BY A VEHICLE IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS
A bicyclist was struck by a vehicle Tuesday in northeast Arkansas.
According to Paragould city officials, shortly before noon, dispatchers received a report of an accident on Court Street.
At the scene, officers found a male on the ground that had been riding a bike that was struck by a vehicle.
Witnesses told officers that the male on the bike was in the outside lane when he attempted to change lanes. Once he initiated the lane change he pulled in front of the vehicle.
The bicyclist was flown to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI MAN EXECUTED FOR 2005 DEATH OF MSHP TROOPER
A southeast Missouri man has been executed for the murder of a Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper.
Lance Shockley was convicted in 2009 for the March 2005 shooting death of Sergeant Carl Graham Jr., who was investigating a fatal crash that involved Shockley.
Shockley was unanimously convicted of first-degree murder along with three aggravating factors. His case was reviewed and upheld by the Missouri Supreme Court, the federal district court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Shockley was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
He is the first person put to death this year in Missouri. The last execution in the state was on December 3rd, when Christopher Collings received a lethal injection for sexually assaulting and killing a 9-year-old girl.
TWIN RIVERS TRUNK OR TREAT TRUNK OR TREAT SET FOR OCTOBER 26
The Twin Rivers Student Council has announced the date for their Halloween Trunk or Treat.
The event is scheduled for 6 to 8 pm on Friday, October 31st in the parking lot of the Twin Rivers Fisk campus.
Organizers say that there will be candy, decorated trunks, costumes and safe family fun as a part of this free event.
