Month: January 2022

Courtesy of Jason Brasier, Ozark’s First News:

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– The Northbound Glenstone Ave. to Eastbound U.S. Route 60 on-ramp is closed permanently.

The ramp will be closed as part of the James River Freeway/Glenstone Avenue Interchange project. Drivers will need to use a new intersection with a traffic signal at Republic Road/Harvard Avenue to access the eastbound U.S. Route 60 on-ramp.

According to a press release, the following areas are where traffic will be impacted.
•Northbound Glenstone Avenue to Eastbound U.S. Route 60 on-ramp CLOSED in Springfield
•Drivers are to use the new signalized Republic Road/Harvard Avenue intersection to eastbound U.S. Route 60 on-ramp
•Glenstone Avenue traffic shifted head-to-head in the southbound lanes between U.S. Route 60 and the Republic Road/Harvard Avenue intersection in Springfield

The Shannon County Sheriff’s Office revealed new information about a body found by MoDOT mowers in a ditch near Winona on U.S. 60.

Sheriff Darren Brawley says the body is a woman, at least 55-years-old, with no visible signs of trama.

Investigators have not identified the woman.

An autopsy will be conducted in Christian County.

The state fire marshal is investigating a fire near St. Robert that killed two children and sent another child and a man to the hospital.

The flames broke out just after 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The Waynesville Rural Fire Protection District was called to the mobile home on Host Drive.

Two of the victims were trapped inside the trailer when crews arrived on scene.

One child was flown to a hospital in Springfield.

The man was rushed to a hospital in Rolla.

The Pulaski County coroner is conducting a death investigation.

A Springfield school bus was involved in a crash Thursday morning.

Police say two students were on the bus at the time of the wreck, but no one was injured.

Authorities say the school bus hit the back of a pickup truck at Glenstone and Independence

Rain will change over to snow across the Ozarks early Saturday morning, with accumulating snowfall expected in southwest Missouri.

The National Weather Service says around two inches of accumulation are possibe in the Springfield area, with two to three inches from Lebanon down to Ava and West Plains.

Less amounts of one to two inches are expected in the western Ozarks along the I-49 corridor.

Probablistic models have a roughly 65 to 75% chance of two inches or more snow occuring along and east of the Highway 63 corridor in the eastern Ozarks.

That probability drops to 45 to 50% for Springfield.

Freezing rain or sleet is not expected to be a factor as rain should quickly transition to snow.

A man is facing charges for leading law enforcement on a high speed chase through two counties and damaged their patrol cars.

Greene County prosecutors have charged 39 year old Greggory Erwin with resisting arrest and driving while intoxicated.

The chase involved Republic Police, Greene County and Webster County Sheriff’s Deputies.

Irwin reached a speed of 100 MPH at one point.

He was finally stopped at the 107 mile marker on I-44.