Month: January 2022

Springfield Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing person. 38 year old Joseph Sparks is a white male with brown eyes, brown hair, five foot ten, and 185 pounds, also shaved head with sleeve tattoos on both arms. Police say Sparks is diagnosed with mental illness. If you know where Sparks […]

Missouri’s governor wants to see the baseline salary for new teachers in the state increased to $38,000. During last week’s State of the State Address, Governor Mike Parson called for raising teacher pay in every corner of the state. He says Missouri currently ranks 50th in starting teacher pay. Per Missouri law, the minimum teacher […]

There are no reports of injuries following a house fire early Tuesday morning in Springfield. Crews were called to the 2700 block of west Nichols just after 4:00 a.m. The house, which was vacant, has extensive damage. Firefighters had to deal with temperatures in the teens and single digit wind chills as they fought those […]

The Springfield City Council approved the Infrastructure Reimbursement Agreement with Buc-ees for improvement to areas of I-44. The agreement will establish a plan to reimburse the Buc-ee’s company for about $4 million of the estimated $8.5 million in improvements the company would have to complete to make the location suitable for development. Those improvements include […]

Nixa High School leaders are removing several soap dispensers from their bathrooms after students apparently took some apart and urinated in them. Principal David Kelly tells KY3 he believes the prank stemmed from a TikTok challenge. Kelly says before the Christmas break, the dispensers started going missing or getting destroyed. The principal says he didn’t […]

The Springfield Police Department says a man who officers chased and deployed a taser on died while being taken to a local hospital to get checked out. Officers responded to the Casey’s in the 900 block of south Grant Saturday night and found two men rummaging through a trash dumpster on the parking lot. Police […]

Springfield City Council is expected to vote Monday night on pay raises for city workers. If council approves, city employees would get a 4% pay raise. Jordan Valley Park Superintendent Jeff Cumley says the pay hike is needed to attract and keep employees in a competitive labor market. Some employees would also get a retention […]

State health officials say 35% of COVID-19 tests in Missouri are coming back positive. Officials say the Omicron variant of the virus is more infectious than other variants. Health officials say vaccination is the safest way to achieve heard immunity, which requires 80 to 90% of the population to have immunity. Just over 62% of […]

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is explaining the Joker Alert that Missourians received on their phones Tuesday afternoon. Captain John Hotz says they were testing the “Blue Alert” system which is to warn law enforcement if backup is needed, because an officer is down. Civilians do not receive any messages from that alert. The system […]