Ivie Macy, KOLR SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Juneteenth celebrations are taking place across Springfield to mark the first year the date is recognized as a nation-wide holiday. As KOLR-10 reports, at Missouri State University (MSU), staff gathered to honor the day the last remaining slaves discovered they had been freed. This has defined our nation’s history […]
The Greene County Commission has allotted the remainder of its CARES Act funds to county law enforcement agencies and to the Springfield-Greene County Park Board. The Commission has allocated just over $434,000 for the Park Board, but the amount will have to be approved by the Springfield City Council will need to approve the funding. […]
Greene County authorities say a couple found dead in a burning home in Battlefield in January was the result of a murder-suicide. Shawna and Don Kipp were found by firefighters at their home on January 27th. Investigators say Shawna Kipp had been shot eight times. Don Kipp had a gunshot wound to his head and […]
Friday will be our hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures into the upper 90’s and heat index readings as high as 100 to 109 across southwest Missouri. A Heat Advisory runs through 7 p.m. Friday, covering all of the Ozarks. The National Weather Service says the maximum heat index in Springfield should […]
State offices in Missouri will be closed Friday in honor of Juneteenth, the new national holiday commemorating the end of slavery on June 19, 1865. The Missouri Office of Administration announced the closures Thursday, after President Biden signed a law declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday. It’s the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King, […]
Duck boats won’t be back on Table Rock Lake this year. Branson Duck Tours, who planned to return the controversial vessels to Table Rock Lake for the first time since the July 2018 Duck Boat incident where 17 people died, posted on social media they won’t be able to open this year. “As is common […]
The United Way of the Ozarks is having not one, but two “days of caring” in 2021. The organization encompassing a number of charities in the Springfield area cancelled last year’s event because of the coronavirus pandemic. The first event is taking place Thursday, with a second “day of caring” set for September. More than […]
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has launched a new web page with an interactive map allowing residents to find their closest source for a COVID-19 vaccination. The map will allow users to search their home or work address against a number of criteria including vaccine type and clinic setting such as a community health event […]
The Highway Patrol has pulled 35 gambling machines from a business in the Plaza Shopping Center at Sunshine and Glenstone in Springfield. Troopers got a search warrant and confiscated the machines from Lucky Lynn’s Internet Cafe. They believe the machines may be illegal. Several other businesses in the shopping center had apparently complained about the […]
Police in Springfield say a teenager with an airsoft gun caused alarm at the Battlefield Mall on Monday. A group of teenagers entered the food court and one of them had an airsoft gun. It’s unclear if the gun was fired, but employees and customers were alarmed by the sight of it. Mall security asked […]