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Steven Privette, Presiding Judge of the 37th Circuit which includes Howell, Oregon, Shannon, and Carter counties, has been appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court as a Special Judge to sit in a case on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, in Springfield, MO.
“It’s a great honor to...
Raising Police Wages
At the regular meeting of the Mountain View City Council on January 10, Alderman Punkie Stevenson proposed raising starting police wages to $15.50, and then increasing them after 90 days to $16 per hour. He pointed out that neighboring towns use a similar sliding scale for...
The Howell County Health Department is reporting this week the highest-ever number of COVID-19 infections. More than 800 new positives have been reported over the last two weeks. The rate of positive cases is twice as many as we saw in July’s spike in Delta-variant cases.
Officials from Ozarks...
Producers selling local foods at farmers markets can learn about best practices, marketing tips, state regulations and available resources in a five-part webinar series presented in February by University of Missouri Extension.
"This series will help farmers and other food producers gain...
Two male subjects led Mountain View Police on a chase before crashing once on Harlow Rd. and then later in Shannon County.
Around 7:35 a.m. Friday morning, Mountain View Police Department was dispatched to 907 North Ash for multiple reports of a male subject attempting to break into an occupied...
Legislative Districts
Changes to your representation in Jefferson City remain in the air as another week of legislative session closes. Missouri must redraw state legislative district maps following the results of the 2020 census.
Missouri's House and Senate Independent Bipartisan Citizens...
Thieves stole catalytic converters from two trucks owned by the City of Willow Springs last weekend, confirms Willow Springs Police Chief Bryan Hogan. Employees at the City’s wastewater treatment plant noticed a missing catalytic converter from a newly purchased sludge truck on Saturday night,...
Law enforcement agencies are investigating the discovery of a body in a ditch near Winona. On January 12 shortly before 11 a.m., mowing crews with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) found a body on U.S. 60 west of Winona.
The Shannon County Sheriff’s Office and the Missouri State...
The Missouri State Highway Patrol provided the following preliminary statistics related to the New Year’s holiday weekend.
No one was killed in a traffic crash during the 78-hour counting period, which began at 6 p.m. December 30, and ended at 11:59 p.m. January 2. There were no boating crashes...
Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division is participating in a three-day initiative that began on Human Trafficking Day, January 11. This initiative is a concentrated effort to educate commercial motor...