Month: March 2022

After six Pro Bowl seasons in Kansas City, superstar wide receiver Tyreek Hill is now a Miami Dolphin.

After contract negotiations stalled out, Brett Veach and the Chiefs front office gave Hill the chance to explore trade options. Well, they found one.

Hill will be headed to Miami in exchange for five draft picks. Kansas City will get a first, second and fourth round pick in this year’s draft, as well as a fourth and sixth round pick in next year’s draft.

Following the trade, Hill signed a 4-year, $120 million contract with Miami.

In his six seasons with the Chiefs, Hill caught 479 passes for 6,630 yards and 56 touchdowns, all of which are top 10 in the league during that span.

Every spring, as snow and ice face to an unpleasant memory, attention turns to the trash that’s accumulated on roadsides during the winter months.

The Missouri Department of Transportation is inviting everyone who uses roads in our state to help with spring cleaning in the month of April.

MoDOT will provide trash bags and safety vests to anyone who volunteers.

The state spends about $6 million each year removing litter from more than 385,000 acres of right of way along 34,000 state highway miles.

To learn more about how you can safely participate in No MOre Trash, visit www.modot.org/adopt-highway or call 1-888-ASK-MODOT (1-888-275-6636).

Bass Pro Shops’ World’s Fishing Fair returns to Springfield next week, and it could bring as many as 500,000 people to the city.

The event runs March 30-April 3.

Bass Pro is working with the Springfield Police Department and Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management to prepare for the influx of people and traffic.

Campbell Avenue between Sunshine and Cherokee will be closed during the World’s Fishing Fair.

Bass Pro is also partnering with local hospitals and disaster medical assistance teams for emergency room transports, if needed.

Authorities have arrested a man in Pulaski County wanted on multiple warrants.

The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office was told Dawson Preble was armed and threatening to shoot law enforcement if they attempted to apprehend him.

Pulaski County deputies found Preble in a building on Highway 7, just outside of Pulaski County.

Camden County Deputies arrived to set up a perimeter.

Preble surrendered after an hour and was taken to the Pulaski County Jail.

Administrators at Kickapoo High School are investigating racially-motivated, hate speech written in a bathroom of the school.

School leaders sent a letter to parents saying they are reviewing videos to identify those responsible.

They are also encouraging students to come forward with any information in the case.

Kickapoo Principal Dr. Bill Powers says vandalism of this kind will not be tolerated.

The Springfield-Greene County Health Department says they have discovered a new COVID-19 sub-variant, BA.2.

Assistant Director Jon Mooney says the sub-variant has been present in the county for six weeks, first detecting it in February. It was detected through sewage samples that were collected.

Experts say that BA.2 is more transmissible than BA.1, or the Omicron variant.

The BA.2 variant has accounted for nearly a quarter of all COVID-19 cases in the United States since March 12.

A woman has escaped a fire in her home in Nixa.

Fire crews responded to flames in the 900 block of east Reed Lane around 8 p.m. Monday.

Fire officials say the woman was sleeping when a neighbor called 911 to report the flames.

Investigators say the house is likely a total loss.

The Springfield-Greene County Health Department plans to expand COVID-19 testing and vaccination opportunities among high-risk and underserved populations in Greene County.

The assistance comes courtesy of a $574,599 grant from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to expand efforts to address health disparities caused by the virus.

Here are all the details from a press release by the Springfield-Greene County Health Department:

In 2021, approximately 42% of Health Department vaccine clinics provided underserved and high-risk populations in Greene County access to the vaccine. With this expansion, the Health Department can continue its work to advance health equity and social determinants of health related to COVID-19. 

By continuing to partner with the Springfield-Greene County Library system, holding community vaccination and testing events at trusted and convenient sites and creating additional health promotional activities, the Health Department will increase vaccine and testing access for individuals experiencing barriers such as:

• Insufficient access. 
• Low health literacy. 
• Lack of broadband access.
• Being uninsured or under insured.
• Experiencing a disability. 
• Lack of transportation. 
• Inability to take time away from work.

These barriers have disproportionately affected rural residents and racial and ethnic minority groups living in Greene County, particularly when it comes to receiving life-saving healthcare. 

With increased testing and vaccine opportunities, it is our hope that more people will have access to critical elements of healthcare, so they can better protect themselves, their loved ones and their community. 

For information about upcoming vaccine and testing events, visit Vaccine417.com, COVIDTesting417.com or call the COVID-19 Call Center at 417-874-1211.