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A new ordinance passed by the City of Willow Springs has left many in the community curious about the effect it will have on the current officers in the department when the Mayor and Board of Alderman nominate and approve a new Fire Chief to fill the currently vacant position in the Willow...
Howell County prosecutors have filed four separate criminal cases against Jeremiah Partee, 42, Nixa, following his arrest for stealing multiple vehicles and trailers in the area. Partee faces two counts of stealing a motor vehicle and three counts stealing $750 or more, all felonies.
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Main Street from the Harris to Walnut Street will be closed starting at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, March 5. This area will be closed for several hours for crews to complete demolition of the collapsed building.
A historic building in downtown Willow Springs collapsed at approximately 7:45 Monday morning. A neighboring business owner, Michael Smith, of Coulter Heating and Cooling, was the first person to notice the collapse and called it in to emergency services. Formerly the Curtis Department Store...
Electrical grid reliability has improved significantly from the past few days which is the result of the conservation efforts by local utility customers and other pool utilities. Grid operations at Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) have scaled back...
As temperatures have remained critically low, electric and natural gas supplies are limited. There is a continued chance through the weekend that regional transmission operators (ours is Sho-Me Power) could involuntarily curtail usage so that demand doesn’t outpace the electric supply. As a City...
Despite a brief pause in his working career, K9 Loki is back in full service and has wasted no time in assisting his fellow officers as well as the Howell County Sheriff’s Office. Both instances occurred within hours of each other last Monday night February 1 and just after midnight on Tuesday...
Please enjoy these photos of the late winter snow and ice that continues to blanket Howell County submitted by Howell County News readers.
During a recent promotion ceremony in South Korea, Willow Springs High School graduate, Crystal B. Blagg, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (O-3) in the United States Navy. Following her 2010 graduation from WSHS as class valedictorian, LT Blagg completed a Bachelor of Science degree...
Just days after the folklore holiday said to predict the remaining length of winter, severe weather showed up in a big way in Howell County. Precipitation combined with the as-yet-ongoing deep freeze coated the roadways in ice, and the persistently frigid conditions kept most county and state...