Month: February 2021

A man from Reeds is charged with gunning down two people at a home in Avilla after they told him they killed his girlfriend, whose body was found southwest of Joplin.

Kevin Johnson was taken into custody Monday. He’s charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action.

Johnson is accused of shooting Mason McClure and Nicole Hodges.

Court records show Johnson went to the house to see his girlfriend, Brylee O’Banion, and was told by McClure that he and Hodges killed her.

The probable cause statement says Johnson was asked to go into the garage to help McClure with something. Prosecutors say Johnson drew a firearm he had taken from his father’s residence and started shooting.

Amazon is hiring around 500 full time jobs at the new Republic Distribution Center and several hundred part time jobs at the AMXL facility in Springfield.

The Missouri Job Center is partnering with Amazon in hosting a two-day hiring event on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 23rd and 24th at the center at 2900 East Sunshine in Springfield.

Job seekers must fill out an application online and make an appointment prior to the interview.

No walk-in traffic will be allowed for interviews.

To apply for a job at the Amazon Fulfillment and Distribution Center in Republic, go to Jobs.Mo.Gov and search Amazon for a link to fill out an application.

All appointments are full for the Amazon AMXL facility in Springfield. More jobs for the Republic Distribution Center will be posted at a later date.

After the application is done, a job interview time will be set up.

Starting pay for full and part time employment with Amazon is $15.00 per hour.

Patients at Mercy Hospital in Cassville have been evacuated because of a fire that broke out Monday morning.

The police chief says the fire appears to have started in an air conditioning unit on the roof.

The patients were loaded into ambulances and taken to Mercy Hospital in Aurora.

There have been no reports of injuries, and the fire was under control just after 7 a.m. Monday.

There’s no word on the extent of damage to the facility.