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Springfield, MO
Joined January 2009
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Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is projecting a higher statewide voter turnout than the 2022 Midterm Election.
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The Christian County Sheriff’s Office is turning heads across Southwest Missouri this October, deploying a custom bright pink patrol car to show support for breast cancer survivors, patients, and families.
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A 22-year-old man from Norwood, Missouri, has died in a single-vehicle crash near Hartville late Wednesday night.
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With Election Day approaching, voters across Branson and Taney County are heading to the polls motivated by a wide range of issues, from inflation and gas prices to state constitutional ballot measures and a desire to make their voices heard.
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The felony charges could represent a new tactic in how states try to assert regulatory authority over the fast-expanding activity, a clash that appears headed to a showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Democrat Sean Falconer and Republican Lori Rook, both political newcomers, are competing for the seat; representing a large portion of Greene County outside the Springfield city limits, as well as Barton County, Dade County and Webster County.
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Shoppers of Natural Grocers stores, check your mung beans.
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This is the seventh year in a row that the group has given Arkansas this ranking. Arkansas advocacy group Family Council said the recognition was after a study by Americans United for Life of all 50 states on their laws that protect the unborn, the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill.
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"We tailor everything safety-wise to what Greene County is capable of handling and how we're going to best approach that situation if it is to happen," she said.
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Two men from Georgia were arrested on Tuesday following allegations of traveling to southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas to commit financial crimes.
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Police in South Carolina have officially closed the investigation into the death of Hayden Panettiere, according to a Wednesday news release.
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A Howell County man has been charged with domestic assault after a woman told deputies he became aggressive because she was getting new clothes and he was not.
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The lawsuit was filed by Burton Company and Holdings LLC on Oct. 20, saying Good and his company, Good Empire LLC, owe $233,567.94 in deficient payments for the property at 425 E. Kearney Street.
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The Springfield Police Department (SPD) is asking for the public’s help in locating a teenage girl who went missing Wednesday.
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A 23-year-old woman is set to appear in Nashville court after allegedly helping a man flip a $39,000 piece of Home Depot equipment on Facebook Marketplace.
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Activist Dolores Huerta, who helped co-found the National Farm Workers Association with César Chavez, has died. She was 96.
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The last financial report before the November 3 election shows tens of millions of dollars being spent on the five ballot questions appearing before Missouri voters.
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“For a long time, I have been against doing long-form video on Instagram,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video posted Monday alongside Tessa Lyons, the company’s vice president of product. “But we are actually gonna lean in for a bunch of different reasons.”
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Elevate Branson is unveiling 16 brand-new tiny homes on Wednesday, marking the second major expansion for its master-planned affordable housing development.
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A motel on the north side of Springfield had a bathroom on fire Wednesday morning.
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