Technical glitch sets Springfield summer school online registration back a day
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Springfield Public Schools summer school registration is postponed until Thursday due to a technical difficulties, the district said Wednesday.
View ArticleUPDATE: Man found in car trunk near Mountain Home, AR was shot to death
New details released Wednesday from Baxter County Sheriff's OfficeMOUNTAIN HOME, Ar. -- On Wednesday it was released how a man, whose body was found in a car trunk near Mountain Home, had been killed.
View ArticleMissouri State University asks students for input on new women's sport
The university asked students to fill out a survey that lists all the NCAA-sanctioned sports.SPRINGFIELD, Mo.. - Missouri State University will likely add another sport for women, and students are...
View ArticleSpringfield man pleads guilty to abusing boy in 2011
Nicholas Rountree, 20, admitted to abusing a 12-year-old family friend, according to Greene County prosecutors.SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield man has pled guilty to four counts of statutory sodomy...
View ArticleKansas man drowns in Lake Taneycomo
TANEY COUNTY, Mo. - A Kansas man drowned in Lake Taneycomo Wednesday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reports.
View ArticleBaxter County Quorum Court OKs extra money for county jail
Workers started putting the beds back the next day.MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- Workers are reinstalling jail beds after the Baxter County Quorum Court approved an additional $143,500 to pay for law...
View ArticleMSU could be adding female sports team
Increased female enrollment put school at odds with Title IXSPRINGFIELD, Mo - Missouri State University will likely be adding another sport for women.
View ArticleTwo white supremacists sought in probe of Colorado prison chief's slaying
DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado authorities probing the killing of the state's prisons chief, who was shot at the door of his home last month, were seeking two members of a white supremacist prison gang...
View ArticleMissouri Senate passes proposed constitutional change to strengthen gun rights
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate passed a proposed change to the State Constitution that is designed to strengthen gun rights. The amendment would declare gun rights "unalienable" and...
View ArticleSpringfield-Greene County Library Center reopens after bomb scare
A suspicious bag was found in the library but contents were found to not be dangerous.SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Springfield-Greene County Library Center on South Campbell Avenue was evacuated for...
View ArticleWrongful death lawsuit filed in deadly semi-truck crash in Republic
The widow of a man who died when a tractor-trailer rig hit his car from behind sued its driver and his company.SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The widow of a man from Macon who died when a tractor- trailer hit...
View ArticleSaint Louis University scientist to study if cancer meds can protect from...
The university said Thursday that Mark Buller has won a contract from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency that would be worth nearly $1 million, depending on the cost of the work.ST. LOUIS (AP) -...
View ArticleArk. Senate approves using Medicaid funds to purchase insurance for...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate has approved a proposal to use federal funds to purchase private insurance for 250,000 low-income workers, an idea that's being touted as an alternative to...
View Article525,000 Missourians could get health insurance aid
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A health care advocacy group says more than 525,000 Missouri residents could get federal subsidies for health insurance beginning in 2014.
View ArticlePassenger in car that hit apartment complex dies of injuries
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A woman from Forsyth who was a passenger in a car that crashed into an apartment complex died of injuries sustained in the crash. City of Springfield spokeswoman Cora Scott said...
View ArticleSears Portrait Studios, PictureMe close their doors
A financially troubled St. Louis-based company is abruptly shuttering its more than 2,000 portrait studios that are found nationwide in locations such as Walmart and Sears stores.ST. LOUIS (AP) - A...
View ArticleMusic, art, theater will fill downtown Springfield on Friday night
First Friday Artwalk includes several special events.SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- People who go downtown Friday night will have a lot of interesting events to attend, besides the normal art gallery exhibits....
View ArticleTyson Foods will pay nearly $4 million in EPA fines for ammonia accidents at...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Tyson Foods agreed to pay nearly $4 million in civil penalties to settle violations of the Clean Air Act after a series of chemical accidents at its facilities, the Justice...
View ArticleOzarks Food Harvest expands help to Springfield School District
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Ozarks Food Harvest has long served “food insecure” children attending schools in Springfield wih the Weekend Backpack Program . Last year, the regional food bank piloted its...
View ArticleTwins from Springfield go to prison for passing altered stolen checks
The Sayles brothers pleaded guilty last year.SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Two men from Springfield were sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a conspiracy to alter stolen checks and pass them...
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