Springfield Police are investigating a shooting on the North side of the city. Officers found a man with a gunshot wound to his hand at Lee and Nettleton Tuesday afternoon. Police say the man had been in a fight with three men. One man was arrested. Police are still looking for the other two suspects. […]
State Auditor Nicole Galloway’s office has completed an audit of financial records for the Greene County Commission for a three year period ending in 2019. The overall rating for the years audited is “poor.” The county’s response to the audit is included in this press release from the county commission: The State Auditor’s office has […]
Former NFL and Mizzou wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham is back in jail for 180 days for violating probation. Court documents say his 2019 sentence was executed, and his probation revoked. That sentence was on a resisting arrest charge, and he was to serve two years probation. This article is provided by Ozarks News – 93.3 […]
A trial date has been set for Rebecca Ruud, the woman accused of killing and dismembering her daughter, Savannah Leckie in Ozark County in 2017. Ruud’s bench trial will happen on March 7, 2022. The Missouri Supreme Court assigned the case to Judge Calvin Holden in 2017, but because the trial is now a bench […]
The Greene County ARPA team has made recommendations to the Greene County Commission on how to allocate $56.9 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds. There are 66 eligible categories in the American Rescue Plan Act legislation, which strongly suggests that municipalities consider and incorporate equity focus to ensure underrepresented and underserved community pockets receive eligible […]
The Springfield Police Department is investigating a shooting from over the weekend in the 800 block of east Morningside as a homicide. Officers were dispatched to a home Sunday morning at 11:35 after a 911 caller stated a man had been shot at their residence during a disturbance. When police arrived, they found Matthew Turner, […]
Getting to work on time has been a big challenge this Monday morning for traffic along James River Freeway in the Republic area. MoDOT closed down all lanes of traffic, both eastbound and westbound, between I-44 and Highway MM so crews can work an injury crash. A number of emergency vehicles responded to the scene […]
The Brookline Fire Department and several area firefighters battled a blaze near Route 266 and North Farm Road 89 Friday night. Dry and windy conditions caused the fire to spread. The exact cause of the fire and amount of damage is unknown. This article is provided by Ozarks News – 93.3 KWTO
A woman has now been charged for an attack on another woman in the Roundtree Neighborhood of Springfield. Greene County Prosecutors charged 29 year old Jimica Wells with first degree assault. According to a Probable Cause statement, Wells was upset when she went to her ex-boyfriend’s house and saw another woman’s purse. After she left, […]
Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen at Primrose and Glenstone in Springfield had to delay opening Friday morning after a fire in the kitchen overnight. Fire crews were called to the restaurant around 12:30 a.m. They first thought it was a fire on the roof in an HVAC unit, but a battalion chief says kitchen items are what […]