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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon today ordered the activation of the State Emergency Operations Center in response to fires and a prolonged period of record heat and low precipitation across Missouri. The Governor also ordered the Missouri National Guard to ready the assets and resources it...
Two people were injured in separate auto crashes Wednesday in Ozark County.
A Bakersfield man, 33-year-old Jeremy B. Bean was injured in a one-vehicle accident Wednesday evening on V Highway about three miles north of Bakersfield. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report stated Bean's 2001 Dodge...
Sizzling June temperatures soaring past the century mark have county officials pleading with residents to not do any outdoor burning and to refrain from shooting off fireworks.
"We would strongly recommend that people go see one of the public fireworks displays instead of shooting off their own,"...
Local firefighters have been busy the past couple days with four fires in the Tecumseh, Dora and Gainesville areas.
An unoccupied home near Tecumseh owned by Joe Spencer was destroyed Wednesday night in what officials called a suspicious blaze. The home was built by Joe's father in the early 1980s...
Gov. Jay Nixon and his wife, Georganne, made a quiet, unannounced visit to Ozark County last week to float the North Fork of the White River.
Former Ozark County resident Wayne Stewart said last week the Nixons and the governor’s security detail took their canoes out of the river on property he...
After a year of fundraising, Relay For Life of Ozark County teams raised $85,922.81 for the American Cancer Society. Eighteen teams participated, and several hundred people attended this year's event held Friday night and into Saturday morning at the Benton F. Breeding Stadium at Gainesville High...
A Theodosia couple arrested in what investigators called an elaborate forgery and counterfeiting scheme back in January pleaded guilty during the June law day session last week in Ozark County Circuit Court.
Brandon Michael Jones, 33, pleaded guilty to three counts of felony forgery, plus...
A recent traffic count conducted by the Missouri Department of Transportation at the junction of U.S. Highway 160 and Highway 5 north in Gainesville yielded pretty impressive numbers.
The count was done at the request of Ozark County commissioners who hope to promote the area to prospective...
The United States Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health care law Thursday, ruling that the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine is constitutional as a tax.
Four public fireworks displays are planned around Ozark County for the Independence Day holiday. Three of the four displays take place Saturday evening, June 30. All of the displays will begin around dark.
Displays at Theodosia, Bakersfield and Squires will be presented on Saturday night, while...