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Ozark County students are heading back to school, and area drivers are reminded to watch for students waiting for, walking to or getting on and off buses throughout the county each weekday morning and afternoon. Thornfield school started Friday, Aug. 10. Lutie started today, Aug. 15, and...
The Taney County Sheriff’s Office received two calls Friday, Aug. 17 of possible attempted child abductions.
The first occurred at approx. 1:30 pm. on Norman Road near Kirbyville. A white male and female pulled up to a residence where two children were playing in the yard. The female attempted to...
Route 5 in Ozark and Douglas Counties from Route JJ to Route 95 will be reduced to one lane next week as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulder repairs.
Weather permitting, work will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, through Thursday, Aug. 30.
Douglas County Sheriff Chris Degase shot and killed a suspect who allegedly came at him with a weapon Thursday as Degase was attempting to arrest a woman who was wanted on outstanding warrants.
Crystal Prock, who fled from the scene of the deadly shooting by the Douglas County sheriff, was arrested...
Two Bakersfield residents were arrested Monday on charges related to a car break-in and theft that occurred June 16 at the Norfork Lake access known as the Stump Hole, off Smokey Road south of Tecumseh.
Kelly Davenport’s car was entered through windows that were broken out, and a credit card, cash...
Jeffery G. Lundry, 42, of Brandsville, last week pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge John Moody to three charges related to a fatal Aug. 20, 2011, hit-and-run crash on PP Highway at James Bridge near Dawt. Norwood resident David Littrell, 58, was killed when Lundry’s homemade trailer broke loose...
When Robert Rizza retired to the Bull Shoals Lake community of Pine Branch, Ark., just south of the Missouri/Arkansas line in Marion County, Ark. three years ago, he thought the fact that his mailing address was Theodosia, Mo., was kind of funny.
"I thought it was sort of comical," Rizza said.
But...
Two people have confessed to being involved in a recent rash of mailbox vandalism around the county, reports the Ozark County Sheriff's Dept. At least 35 mailboxes were smashed or stolen during the first week of August, with much of the damage occurring along W Highway toward Pontiac and T Highway...
Blue Dogwood, a bluegrass-inspired group of three talented musicians from the Mountain Home, Ark., area, is the featured music group for this month's installment of Music on the Square, a free show beginning at 7 p.m Friday, Aug. 31, in Gainesville. This month’s event also will include a “Cruise-In...
The Gainesville R-V school district has a new superintendent, but he's not a new face in the school's hallways.
Joe Donley began his new role as superintendent after being selected by the board following the retirement of longtime superintendent Bill Looney earlier this year.
Donley was busy taking...