Month: March 2022

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for much of southwest Missouri starting at 3:00 a.m. Friday and going until 6:00 p.m. Friday evening.

The National Weather Service says snow will begin Thursday night, generally after 6:00 p.m. north of Highway 54 and spread south through the overnight hours.

Snow will begin along the I-44 corridor after 3:00 a.m. Friday, and this will affect the Friday morning commute.

The snow is expected to end by Friday evening, if not before.

A widespread one to four inches of snow is possible with this system, with localized amounts of five inches possible north of Highway 54.

Amounts taper off farther south, with one to three inches along the Missouri/Arkansas border and one to two inches around West Plains.

Forecasters expect minor impacts on the roads, especially during the Friday morning commute.

The high March sun angle may help melt snow later in the day Friday.

There will be worse impacts northwest of our region, closer to Kansas City, where a Winter Storm Warning has been issued.

A man is dead and several people in custody after a shooting in Seymour Wednesday.

The Webster County Sheriff’s Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to a trailer near Peewee Crossing Road and U-S Route 60.

Sheriff Royce Cole confirmed a man was killed, but says everyone involved was taken into custody. No names have been released at this time.

Police believe a medical condition caused a traffic crash in Republic Wednesday afternoon.

The crash occurred at State Highway M-M and U-S 60 around 4 PM.

Investigators say a driver ran off of James River Freeway and hit several signs, before driving into oncoming traffic and hitting a truck.

Emergency crews took the driver to a Springfield hospital.

The passengers in the truck were not injured.

Authorities have released the name of the officer who stopped a man that shot 3 Joplin police officers and killed one.

Captain William Davis is the man who shot and killed 40-year-old Anthony Felix on Tuesday afternoon. Felix opened fire on officers Tuesday afternoon. Officers were attempting to arrest Felix when the shooting began.

Felix shot 3 officers, 2 of which are still hospitalized. Their conditions have not been updated at this time.

The third officer was Corporal Ben Cooper, who tragically died of his injuries Tuesday night.

Per the department’s policy, Davis has been placed on administrative leave. He was not injured during the shooting.

57-year-old Roy Harris was sentenced to 30 years in prison for charges of sexual exploitation of a child, illegal possession of a firearm and investment fraud.

The prison sentence came down Wednesday, which also comes with an order of restitution for the money he swindled his clients out of, which approached a million dollars.

Harris was handed 19 charges of illegal possession of a firearm, and when investigators searched his home, they found images of a minor under the age of 16 that were sexual in nature.

Further investigation showed Harris had engaged in sexual activity with the victim.

Harris’ 30 year prison sentence is to be served concurrently without the eligibility of a parole.

The Ozark Empire Fairgrounds is closer to getting a new arena after receiving a $5 million grant from the state.

The current arena is 60 years old, has a dirt floor, and seats 2,400 people.

The proposed new arena will have a concrete floor and seat up to 6,800 people.

It’s projected to cost $15 million.

Ozark Empire Fairgrounds General Manager Aaron Owen says with the grant, the fair board has raised seven million dollars, but needs to raise roughly $7 million more to build the arena.

A doctor accused of committing sex crimes at a Christian boarding school in the Ozarks has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him in Cedar County.

David Smock faces eight charges in Cedar County and three charges in Greene County.

Smock was a doctor at Agape Boarding School in Cedar County.

He is scheduled to be in court in Greene County on Thursday and Friday.