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The war in Ukraine has been going on for almost a year, but it is not an event that impacts many daily lives in the Ozarks. However, for the 2023 Willow Springs Senior Hoop Queen Yelyzaveta Liedovska, the war hit close to home. This time last year Yelyzaveta (Liza) was attending school in the...
Larry and Reda Foster, of Willow Springs are celebrating fifty years of marriage on Feb. 15, 2022.
“We have mostly spent fifty years together working together in the body shop business and super lube…just dancing our way through life,” Reda says.
Justin and Kelsey VonAllmen of West Plains, MO, are the parents of a baby boy, Reed Michael VonAllmen. He was born Jan. 20, 2023, at 5:40 a.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. He weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces and was 21 inches long. His siblings are Royce, 4, and Rowan, 3. His grandparents are Kelly and Angie...
Musician Aaron Lewis will be performing at the West Plains Civic Center on Thursday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale February 10 at 10:00 a.m. Ticket prices range from $25.00 to $125.00 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com or the Civic Center box office. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. ...
Howell County 9-1-1 Director Robbie Crites offered his resignation to the Board of Directors during the Feb. 6 meeting.
“The Howell County 9-1-1 Board of Directors regrettably accepted the resignation of Robbie Crites as Howell County 9-1-1 Director,” the board commented in a statement. “...
Aijalon Marshall, 18, of Poplar Bluff, bonded out of the Butler County Jail after three days behind bars, confirms Howell County Sheriff Brent Campbell. Marshall faces sixteen felony charges contacted to the burglary of more than a dozen firearms from Anderson Services in Mountain View on Jan. 17...
Less than five months after six staff members of the Ozarks Horizons State School were charged with child abuse, another employee at the special needs school now faces similar charges on an unrelated incident.
Christy Rinear, 49, of Mountain View, faces one count of abuse or neglect of a child...
A Texas County man is the subject of a missing persons case that began in January.
John Dudding, 58, of Willow Springs, was reported missing on Jan. 25 by his son, Sheriff Scott Lindsey told Howell County News. The son could not reach his father phone or at his rural residence. The son then...
A Howell County Sheriff’s Deputy was involved in a head-on collision at 9:35 a.m. on Friday. Deputy Devon Mendenhall, 23, was driving southbound on State Route 76 in non-emergency mode near Snappy Mart. As the deputy approached, a Ford F-350 made a left turn, crashing into the patrol car,...
Country music star Aaron Tippin will be in concert in Mountain View on June 2. The event is hosted by the City of Mountain View “to give back to our town,” the city said in a release.
Local artists Levi Moore and Billy Randolph will perform as opening acts at the Liberty High School football...