A teenager from Nixa has been seriously injured in a golf cart crash.
The 16 year old girl was riding in a golf cart that crashed into a parked car on Fairview Drive South of Ozark.
The 15 year old driver of the golf cart was not injured, and their names have not been released.
Springfield Police say the number of shots fired calls has been going up since March.
There were nine shots fired calls in February, and 32 reported in June. Police say most of those calls were coming from Northwest Springfield.
Chief Paul Williams says officers are also seeing more incidents of people using firearms to solve disagreements, but overall, there have been fewer shootings so far this year than at this time last year.
Harry Styles is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Tours chart for June. It’s the first time that Styles has claimed a monthly victory, and it comes just in the nick of time, as Love On Tour came to a close on Sunday (July 22) after launching as one of the first major post-pandemic tours in September 2021.
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, its last full month of shows earned $105.4 million and sold 967,000 tickets.
That makes Styles only the second act to earn a nine-figure monthly gross, after Bad Bunny raked in $123.7 million in September 2022 on World’s Hottest Tour. Further, the pop star nabs the highest monthly attendance total since the charts launched in February 2019, soaring above Ed Sheeran’s 750,000 in June 2022 and Coldplay’s 736,000 in March of this year.
These shows are part of a late-in-the-game advance to stadiums in Europe, after primarily playing arenas for most of the two-year tour. Typically, stadium acts play fewer shows due to complex production logistics and high nightly attendance.
Styles packed 15 stadium concerts into June, pushing him to the top in a competitive month. Other acts in the top 30 with high show counts -- The Cure (20), Matchbox Twenty (16), Shania Twain (16) and Dead & Company (15) -- mixed arenas and amphitheaters, while Styles’ stadium peers such as Beyoncé and Coldplay, at Nos. 2-3, played 12 and 11 shows, respectively.
The combination of a packed schedule and larger-than-ever crowd counts fueled Styles’ record-breaking month. His four concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium grossed $36.4 million and sold 335,000 tickets on June 13-14 and 16-17. Those figures secure him the No. 1 spot on Top Boxscores as well, once again fending off Coldplay and Beyoncé at Nos. 2-3.
Multi-night engagements in Amsterdam and Paris earned $16.5 million and $14.2 million, respectively, with two dates at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, grossing $12.2 million. Those reports follow on Top Boxscores at Nos. 8, 12 and 15, respectively.
Though it’s Styles’ first month at No. 1, he’s been a consistent player on Top Tours over the last two years. June is his 12th month in the top five, including three appearances at No. 2 and another five at No. 3. Previously, he had peaked in attendance with 419,000 tickets this month last year, and in gross with $54.4 million in September 2022.
These June concerts push Love On Tour’s total gross to $566.2 million, plus a few July shows nudging it to $590.3 million. With four shows left to report, Styles has the fourth highest grossing tour in Boxscore history, likely to become the fourth $600 million tour.
Styles was No. 3 on May’s Top Tours tally. His rise to the top pushes that month’s top two acts -- Beyoncé and Coldplay -- down a peg to Nos. 2 and 3, despite both artists’ significant gains in June. Beyoncé earned $86.9 million (up 29% from last month) while Coldplay grossed $71.5 million (up 30%).
Styles, Beyoncé and Coldplay register three of the seven biggest monthly grosses in the chart’s history, all above $70 million. Another three of those $70 million grosses – Bad Bunny, Def Leppard & Motley Crue and The Weeknd – occurred in August 2022, with Bad Bunny’s September ’22 gross at the top of the heap.
The June Top Tours ranking is record-breaking beyond Styles’ attendance and the top three’s gargantuan grosses. There are 27 tours with a gross of $10 million or more, surpassing the previous record of 24 from just last month. There are almost more $20 million tours than ever before, with 14. Further, June either sets a new record or ties an old one for tours above thresholds of $30-, $40-, $50-, $60-, $70- and $80 million.
Some of those $10 million earners represent genres outside of Boxscore’s typical pop, rock and Latin headliners. Hans Zimmer is No. 32 with $12.3 million and 116,000 tickets sold, acting as one of three non-vocalists on the chart. He tours with a large symphony orchestra, re-creating some of his most iconic scores, from The Lion King to Inception to The Dark Knight.
At No. 26, Illenium is the only dance/electronic artist on the list, bringing in $10.1 million and 132,000 tickets sold from 15 shows. His June routing began in San Francisco on June 1and traveled through the West Coast, Midwest and down to Texas for a show at Austin’s Moody Center on June 30.
And rounding out the tally at No. 30, violinist and composer Andre Rieu grossed $8.7 million and sold 90,000 tickets. Quietly one of the most consistent headliners, this marks Rieu’s 21st month on the chart, having reached as high as No. 5 in January 2020.
How to get the homeless out of makeshift camps and into places that can help them become productive members of society is one of the main topics covered during Wednesday night’s Town Hall panel discussion at our KWTO studios in Springfield.
“The Vicious Cycle of Homelessness in Springfield and Greene County” featured experts who assist or interact with the homeless in our community on a daily basis, including Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott, Springfield Victory Mission Executive Director Jason Hynson, Salvation Army Director of Social Services Chris Brumett, and Freeway Ministries Director of Men’s Discipleship Casey Merrick.
Each organization represented at the event talked about the services they provide to people who are having a tough time getting back on their feet, and the difficulties in getting many members of the homeless community to accept the help they’re offering.
You can listen to the Town Hall panel discussion below.
Alison Moyet, the chart-topping British singer and Yazoo co-founder, can add a fine art printmaking degree to her lengthy list of accomplishments.
Moyet this week graduated with a first in fine art printmaking BA (Hons) from Brighton University, England.
The multiple award-winning British star shared a picture in her cap and gown, remarking how, at 62 years of age, the achievement had come “a bit late doors”.
“Aged 16 I wanted to be a printer like my father, my grand-father and his father before him. I was met with a ‘No. Closed Shop. No women.’ 62 this month and I’ve just completed my first degree,” she tweeted. “Fine Art Printmaking. Born to make a mess and learnt to clean it up.” She signs off, #ItsNeverTooLate.
One of the outstanding singers of her generation, Moyet landed one of the land’s highest accolades in 2021, with an MBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Across a stellar recording career, the English singer scooped two solo U.K. No. 1 albums, including 1984’s Alf, and a brace of Brit Awards for best female artist.
In the late noughts, Moyet briefly reunited with Vince Clarke for a Yazoo tour, their short-lived but hugely influential ‘80s synth-pop outfit, which had hits with “Don’t Go,” “Only You,” “Nobody’s Diary” and others. Yazoo released two studio albums, 1982’s Upstairs at Eric’s, which peaked at No. 2 in the U.K., and 1983’s You & Me Both, which led the national chart.
Moyet’s ninth and latest solo LP, Other, dropped in 2017 and peaked at No. 12 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.
Just hours after the news broke that Sinead O’Connor had passed at age 56, P!nk found the most perfect way to pay tribute to the powerful, pioneering vocalist whose calling card was emotional poignancy and fierce independence.
On the first U.S. date of her neon-lit, fittingly titled Summer Carnival tour, the acrobatic singer stopped spinning for a few minutes, turned down the bright lights and acknowledged that the world had lost one of its most cherished, complicated voices, one that had meant everything to teenage Alicia Moore back before we all knew her power.
“When I was a little girl, my mom grew up in Atlantic City and I used to go down to the Ocean City Boardwalk with my ten dollars and I would make a demo tape… I would make a little cassette tape and imagine it was my demo for the record company,” P!nk told the crowd while standing center stage with piano player Jason Chapman as a hush came over the sold-out baseball stadium.
“And it would always be either ‘Greatest Love of All’ by Whitney Houston or ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ by Sinead O’Connor. So in honor of Sinead, and in honor of my very, very talented friend Brandi Carlile I asked her if she would come out here and sing this song with me.”
The last-minute addition to the tightly scripted and choreographed show featuring the headliner and her opening act was a tall hill to climb at best. O’Connor’s famous rendition of the Prince-penned ballad is one of modern music’s most moving, gut-wrenching love laments. More subdued than the equally untouchable Houston song, “Nothing Compares” is perhaps even more of a vocal challenge because of an implicit, rending emotion that’s impossible to fake.
The heartache in O’Connor’s version, however, could not have been in better hands than P!nk and Carlile’s, however, as the two friends hugged midstage and proceeded to put on a masterclass in impromptu song interpretation. (Keeping in mind, however, that there is plenty of YouTube evidence of both women having sung the song before, so they clearly knew its contours and challenges.)
“It’s been seven hours and 15 days/ Since you took your love away/ I go out every night and sleep all day/ Since you took your love away,” P!nk sang gently over minimal piano and keyboard accompaniment, her voice floating crisply over the rapt audience.
With tears visible on the cheeks of a number of fans on the stadium’s packed floor, Carlile took over, crooning, “I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant/ But nothing, I said nothing can take away these blues,” the signature crack in her voice adding an extra layer of necessary sorrow to what was already a very sad day for music.
Matching her grit, P!nk leaned into the second verse, wailing, “where did I go wrong?” before they came together to power through the verse, “I went to the doctor and guess what he told me/ Guess what he told me/ He said, ‘Girl you better try to have fun no matter what you do’/ But he’s a fool.”
Carlile then let out a high, lonesome wail as both women appeared to get in their feelings about the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 ballad that turned O’Connor into a global superstar, for good and ill. Neither made the song about them. But what made the song theirs in that moment was the clear conviction that it meant something special to both women, and to all of us, a gift they honored by sharing it with their most adoring fans as the raw feelings were still very fresh.
“You never know what people are going through,” P!nk said after the performance. “It’s not that hard to give people a smile… we’re all learning that lesson together now.”
It was a wise and painful message on what was an otherwise joyous night. And without saying it, they ended by looking deeply into each other’s eyes and beautifully singing the words that will now cement O’Connor’s memory in our hearts and minds forever: “Nothing compares to you.”
Watch video of the performance below.
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Can’t pass up a good deal? This popular Ariana Grande perfume is on sale at select retailers.
If you’re a fan of the Grammy-winning singer’s perfumes, then you probably already know about Cloud (for those unfamiliar with Grande perfumes, Cloud is one of her popular scents). Fans have been head over heels for Cloud since it debuted in 2018 (the Sweetener era was something special).
The gorgeous fragrance features a dreamy blend of lavender blossom, juicy pear and bergamot; with notes of whipped crème de coconut, praline, vanilla orchid and sensual musk round. Cloud also doubles as a dupe for Baccarat Rouge, according to multiple TikTokers.
Cloud has become so popular that it has its own sequel. The “Side to Side” singer dropped a follow-up fragrance, Cloud 2.0, in 2021.
Where can you buy Cloud on sale? Walmart has one of the deepest deals that we’ve seen at nearly half off the $45 retail price for a one-ounce bottle. Cloud is also available in a 1.7-ounce bottle, which retails for $55, and a 3.4 ounce bottle, which retails for $65.
Although Walmart has a great sale, you can score a smaller discount on Cloud and other fragrances at Ulta Beauty. Save 10% off select perfumes when you use the code: SUMMER23 (free shipping on $35+).
Grande is no stranger to the world of celebrity perfumes. She debuted her first scent, Ari Ea de Parfum, in 2015 and has gone on to release more than a dozen others including Moonlight, Thank You Next, God is a Woman, Sweet Like Candy, Ari Eau de Parfum and R.EM. MOD Blush and MOD Vanilla, released last year, are the latest additions to her scent collection.
Purchase Cloud on sale below.
A man has been sentenced for his role in a deadly fire that killed his grandmother.
A judge sentenced Jacob Hearne of Mountain View to 24 years in prison after he entered an Alford Plea of second-degree murder in the death of Phyllis Schweiel in April 2022.
Authorities found her body inside her burned house.
An investigation led them to Hearne.
The Highway Patrol are investigating an incident on James River Freeway early Wednesday morning.
A child’s scooter was thrown from the Scenic Avenue overpass through the windshield of a box truck traveling on James River Freeway around 5:30 AM Wednesday morning.
The driver was not injured but shaken up.
Sgt. Mike McClure of the Highway Patrol says he believes this was intentional, but they do not have a suspect at this time.
Governor Mike Parson will be in Springfield Thursday.
He will speak at the annual Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce State of the State Address at 11:30 AM at the Great Southern Arena.
He will speak on Missouri’s economic achievements and give his vision for the future of the state.
The governor will then go to Springfield Fire Station 13 and have a ceremonial bill signing for Missouri Senate Bill 24 at 1:30 PM.