The threat for severe thunderstorms increases across southwest Missouri Saturday afternoon through the evening hours. The National Weather Service says the severe weather potential has been upped from a slight to an enhanced risk with increasing chances for damaging winds. The enhanced risk area is along and south of a Pittsburg, Kansas to Springfield to […]
Emilee Kuschel, KOLR SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Deputies are searching for a man believed to have shot someone during a domestic disturbance early Friday afternoon, July 9th. The Greene County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect may be armed and should be considered dangerous. However, police believe the shooting is a singular incident and the public is […]
Emilee Kuschel, Mike Landis, KOLR SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The Springfield-Greene County Health Department is planning a new approach to help Southwest Missourians get vaccinated against COVID-19. With the national vaccination rate at just over 55 percent of adults, Greene County is sitting much lower at around 39 percent. Health officials in Greene County say they […]
A man wanted in Arkansas on charges he tried to kill two police officers is in the Stone County Jail following a standoff Wednesday in Lampe. Ben Reagan was stopped in Barry County for a vehicle violation. During the stop, Reagan fled the scene on foot. Barry County deputies then found a cache of weapons […]
Mercy Springfield held a press conference Wednesday to announce that they will be requiring all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Hospital officials said they would be requiring all staff to have both doses of the vaccine by September 30, 2021. Employees who refuse to get the vaccine could lose their jobs. “It is essential […]
Springfield Public Schools announced late Tuesday they are going to require all students and teachers participating in their July summer programs to wear masks. The district said they will provide masks for students who do not have one. The masking will be required until July 30, when the district will make a decision regarding masking […]
CoxHealth is putting out a call nationwide for help. Hospital officials said Tuesday at a press event that while the hospital is in desperate need of travel nurses and respiratory therapists. “What is so challenging for us right now is the fact that in the winter we had a lot of traveling nurses here to […]
The man killed in a shooting on Independence Day in Ash Grove has been identified. The Greene County Sheriff’s Office says the victim is Cory Estey, 47, of Walnut Grove. Deputies found his body after responding to a call about shots fired in the area of 8707 North Farm Road 43 in Ash Grove. The […]
Bolivar police have announced the identification of a body found in a field Friday evening. Investigators say the body is of 26-year-old Charles Zornes of Bolivar. His body was found around 6:30 Friday night in a field at the corner of West Aldrich Road and Boston Street. An autopsy is scheduled for July 6. The […]
An official with Mercy Springfield said the hospital ran out of ventilators over the weekend and had to ship them in from sister hospitals. Mercy CAO Erik Frederick posted on Twitter July 4 that 116 COVID patients were being treated in their hospital. Frederick said the staff “spent the night looking for ventilators because we […]