Page 7 - Clarks River News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Pandemic boredom led people to seek thrills by tossing powerful magnets into lakes and rivers. They found buckets of scrap metal, and the occasional grenade.

Michael Johnson and his team are credited with getting the Green River Refuge established in 2019

National Weather Service meteorologists in a briefing Friday said western Kentucky could see an increased risk for severe weather this weekend – primarily damaging winds – including heavy rainfall and the potential for flash flooding.

Heartland road projects 5/21 Amber Ruch Missouri Butler County Business U.S. 60 (West Pine Blvd.) will be reduced to one lane with a 12-foot width restriction as contractor crews perform roadside work. This section of road is located between Business U.S. 60/67 (Westwood Blvd.) and Second Street in Poplar Bluff. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Monday, Feb. 1 through Friday, Oct. 1 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Cape Girardeau County Jackson crews will be working throughout the city to re-stripe roads to improve visibility for drivers. Weather permitting, crews will...

A man who was magnet fishing this week in Western Kentucky got something to stick on his line, but it didn't have gills — it was a hand grenade. The Paducah Police Department said its Bomb Squad was called out Monday evening to the Clarks River bridge off Sheehan Bridge Road on a report that a man caught a grenade while magnet fishing. "The squad used its robot to retrieve the item and place it in an explosive storage container," the Paducah Police Department said in a Facebook post that included a photo of the grenade. "It was properly disposed of without incident."