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A familiar figure in Willow Springs, Dr. Robert Shaw has worked as a family doctor, as the physician for Bear athletics, and in many other roles serving the community. As of December 2024, he has retired from his longest-running role - as Medical Director of Willow Care and the Westwood Clinic...
Ozarks Healthcare is excited to announce the arrival of the first baby born at its Women’s Center in 2025.
Theodore B. Smith was born on January 3, 2025, at 3:23 a.m. to parents Matthew Smith and Katrina Long. He weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces and measured 21.5 inches long. Theodore's birth has...
Firefighters from Eleven Point Rural Fire Department responded to a residence on County Road 2720 to rescue a Missouri Foxtrotter named Sundown, who was trapped in an icy pond. The call for help came in shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Jan. 9, when temperatures were an icy 20 degrees.
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The Mountain View Police Department arrested two people and recovered hundreds of stolen items after a search warrant was executed on January 8. The department enacted the search warrant on the Orchard Street residence and recovered suspected stolen items from Howell, Oregon, Ozark, and Shannon...
Coach Joel Wyatt resigned after three seasons as the West Plains high school head football coach. Wyatt led the Zizzers to two District Championships, a trip to the final four and a 23-13 record. In 2024, Wyatt was named the Coach of the Year by the Southwest Missouri Football Coaches Association...
A letter signed by sixteen Missouri State Representatives calls for the termination of David Spears, an employee of the Public Defender’s Office in West Plains.
Spears’ connection to the 2007 rape and murder of his stepdaughter has come under scrutiny lately, prompted by the Dec. 3...
State Budget Director Dan Haug announced today that net general revenue collections for December 2024 increased 19.0 percent compared to those for December 2023, from $1.09 billion last year to $1.30 billion this year.
Net general revenue collections for 2025 fiscal year-to-date increased 0...
The City of West Plains announced the appointment of Anthony Abbruzzo as the new Civic Center Manager. Abbruzzo, a Birmingham, Ala. native, brings a wealth of experience in event management, venue operations, and ticket reporting to his new role at the civic center, the city said in a release...
A West Plains man was arrested following a grand jury indictment on sodomy charges last month. Arrest records with the Howell County Sheriff's Office show that John Paul Ziino, age 39, of West Plains, was arrested on December 27 for two charges of sodomy or attempted sodomy – first degree –...
Michael E. Sly, 39, of West Plains, was acquitted of stealing charges after a jury found him not guilty following a one-day jury trial in Howell County on October 29, 2024. Sly, who is paralyzed from the waist down, was accused of stealing a washer, dryer, and mattress from his ex-fiancee,...