The annual morale-building event for area fire departments took place at Booster Field in Willow Springs for the third consecutive year Saturday.
Howell County Fire Engine Rally 2026 Results
The annual morale-building event for area fire departments took place at Booster Field in Willow Springs for the third consecutive year Saturday.
Howell County Fire Engine Rally 2026 Results
Reverse Hose Lay
Eleven Point Fire Department - 2:49:31
West Plains Fire Department - 3:...
The Miller name is well known to any runner in a 100 mile radius of West Plains. The family has an illustrious career of smashing records and claiming titles. Recently, a third Miller has broken the family running record at West Plains High School.
"It's been very cool to see how it has all...
During a closed session meeting held Tuesday, Oct. 5 the board of aldermen of the City of Mountain View appointed Jerica Will as the city's interim clerk. Will was sworn in by Kelly Waggoner on Wednesday of last week and assumed duties immediately, according to Mayor Karen Gaddy.
Mayor...
A Willow Springs man remains in custody after a SWAT team responded to remove him from a residence outside Willow Springs. As previously reported by Howell County News, Dayton Terrill-Austin, 29, was arrested by the Howell County SWAT team on September 27. He refused to exit his residence when...
Contest results:
G&W Chili Cook-Off
First Place: Sharleena Garlitz
Second Place: Pam Price
Third Place: Debbie Hook
Fourth Place: Anna Roberts
Quilt Contest
sponsored by the Willow Springs Church of Christ Quilt Ladies
Traditional
First Place - Della Crisp
Second...
After a recent order in Howell County Courts declaring West Plains’ Larry Lindeman indigent, the public defender’s office is pushing back. Seven months into the first-degree murder case Lindeman, the defendant has yet to secure a defense attorney.
Last week, the Honorable Robert Craig...
Howell County Sherriff’s deputies attempting to arrest a Willow Springs man on warrants called in the SWAT team for a Sunday night stand-off that ended in a peaceful arrest.
Dayton Terrill-Austin, 29, had active arrest warrants for possession and absconding from parole. The absconder...
Twenty-seven years after the original mural was completed, Michael McClure returned to recreate his work for future generations. In 1999, McClure and a group of community sponsors undertook a project to create a 28-by-10-foot mural of Willow Springs. The original mural featured historical figures...
Howell County News publisher and co-owner Amanda Mendez has been named the inaugural Journalist of the Year by the Missouri Press Association. In a September 27 phone interview, Mendez reflected, “I didn’t choose journalism. Instead, journalism chose me.” Prior to July of 2019 Mendez was a working-...
