A 14 year-old girl was killed in a jet ski crash at Table Rock Lake near Little Indian Point. The Highway Patrol says a 15 year-old boy on a jet ski struck the girl’s jet ski causing her to be thrown from the watercraft. She was airlifted to a Springfield hospital where she was pronounced […]
Springfield Police say a man is hospitalized with a severe hand injury after an assault in north Springfield Saturday afternoon. Officers went to a home on North Atlantic around 4 P.M. where a man’s hand was cut with a sharp object during a dispute. The suspect left with the sharp object. The suspect is still […]
Conditions will be favorable for flash flooding Friday night into Saturday for the northern Ozarks. The National Weather Service says a Flash Flood Watch is in effect for Barton, Cedar, St. Clair and Hickory Counties, and areas along and north of Highway 54 until 1:00 p.m. Saturday. Forecasters say one to three inches of rain, […]
Local health officials say the average age of Greene County residents who have died from COVID-19 decreased to 62 years in August, the lowest since the pandemic began in 2020. The Springfield-Greene County Health Department says the previous low was 66 years in July, highlighting the impact of the Delta variant on people of all […]
The view from Ozark Mill at Finley Farms
The Springfield-Green County Health Department is in agreement with the C-D-C and urging people who have not been vaccinated not to travel this Labor Day Weekend. The Health Department says that if you are unvaccinated and feel you must travel, you should get vaccinated before you leave. The Health Department says if you are vaccinated […]
The former public works director for the village of Sunrise Beach pleaded guilty Thursday to illegal sewage dumping. Brian Scheiter reach a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act by allowing raw sewage to bypass a treatment plant and run down a hillside in 2019. Scheiter lost his job […]
The driver of a stolen car and a passenger are in custody after a crash near the Springfield-Branson National Airport. Greene County deputies tried to pull over the vehicle near West Bypass and Division after the car was reported stolen from Springfield. The chase went along Division before the car crashed in the roundabout near […]
Governor Mike Parson awarded a Missouri Public Safety Medal of Valor to a Springfield police officer. Sergeant Heather Anderson was awarded the medal for her actions on June 9, 2020, when she saved Officer Mark Priebe’s life in the parking lot of the police station. Officer Priebe was in attendance at the ceremony in Jefferson […]
The remains of a Cassville man who died in a prisoner of war camp during World War 2 have been identified. John V. Phillips was a member of the 31st Infantry Regiment, when he was captured by the Japanese during fighting in the Philippine Islands. He died in a P-O-W camp on July 27, 1942 […]