A building burned down on the north side of Springfield.
The building was a garage on Grant Avenue.
The building was destroyed.
The fire is being investigated.
No injuries were reported.
A man is dead in a crash on Highway 76 near Exeter Monday night.
The Highway Patrol says a mini Cooper driven by 37 year old James Johnson of Exeter skidded on wet pavement into the path of another vehicle.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Camden County Deputies have announced the arrest of a man accused of assaulting a man, including biting part of his ear off.
Police arrested Ryan Pierce of Miller County Tuesday at a home in Linn Creek after a call came in saying a person was on the property who wasn’t supposed to be.
Pierce is charged with first-degree assault, third-degree assault and first-degree burglary stemming from an attack in late April. According to reports, Pierce bit off the lower part of a man’s ear, which will cause permanent disfiguration of the victim’s ear.
The victims eyes had also been bruised so severely that one eye was completely swollen shut.
Bond has been set in Pierce’s case for $150,000.
A Webster County man will now stand trial for sex crimes against children after nearly four years.
Terry Rippee is one of eight people accused of child sex crimes after a series of arrests in 2018. Two of the other suspects in the case are Rippee’s sons.
He is charged with sexual misconduct involving a child under 15 as well as eight counts of statutory sodomy.
The arrests were made after a victim came forward with her story and detailed descriptions of the events in question.
Rippee will appear in court for a pretrial hearing in November of this year, with the trial set to begin on January 23, 2023.
A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for deliberately hitting a Highway Patrol Trooper with his car in 2021.
Galen Sailer admitted he hit the Trooper on purpose in a parking lot near Lebanon. The Trooper said Sailer was talking about how his brother was killed by a police officer.
Sailer was originally charged with First Degree Assault, Armed Criminal Action and Leaving the Scene of an Accident, but pleaded guilty to Second Degree Assault, Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Property Damage.
His sentences on those charges will run consecutively for a total of 20 years.
The chances that the Missouri Legislature passes legalized sports betting are getting slimmer.
The current session ends May 13th, and the issue is stalled in the Senate. A major point of contention in the Senate is video lottery games like slot machines, which are illegal and unregulated.
The House passed a bill in March legalizing sports betting with an 8 percent tax on each wager. The Senate version calls for a 10 percent tax and would allow five thousand video lottery games in the state, with no more than seven in any one location.
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a body found in a well.
Mushroom hunters found the body in a well at a home in Long Lane Sunday and called 9-1-1.
An autopsy will be conducted to identify the body.
Investigators say it is believed it is a male body and has been in the well for awhile.
Large hail and damaging winds are the main threats with severe thunderstorms popping up in the Ozarks Monday night.
9:27 p.m. UPDATE: The Severe Thunderstorm Warning for northwestern Ozark County is cancelled. The National Weather Service says the storm has moved out of the county. The warning remains in effect for parts of Christian, Douglas and Taney Counties until 10:00 p.m.
At 9:16 p.m., the National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for southeastern Christian, northwestern Ozark, western Douglas and northeastern Taney Counties until 10:00 p.m. 60 mile per hour wind gusts and quarter size hail are possible as the storm tracks through Ava, Rome, Brownbranch, Goodhope, Garrison, Squires and Bradleyville.
Springfield Police have reportedly been seen conducting an investigation at the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club in Springfield.
Some of the officers involved are part of a local FBI task force, but are also members of the Springfield PD.
SPD executed a search warrant of the property in connection with a recent drive-by shooting. That shooting occurred on April 27.
Details are limited at this time, but reports say officers exited the building with multiple bags. The contents of the bags have not been revealed.
A Willard man is facing charges after making phone calls and sending emails saying he was going to ‘shoot up’ a church and a school.
30-year-old Nathan Elleson is charged with terroristic threats after calling the FBI’s National Threat Operation on April 27 saying he was going to conduct a mass shooting at a school, but that he hadn’t picked a specific one.
On the same day, he emailed Life Church in Springfield, a church had attended recently, threatening, “I have plans to shoot up this church on Sunday.”
Elleson also contacted his parents, sending threatening text messages about assassinating the pastor at their church, Joel Osteen. They are members of the congregation at the Lakewood Christian mega church.
Following his arrest, Elleson admitted to his actions, stating he has a drinking problem and was drunk at the time of the interactions.
Elleson has been booked in the Greene County Jail.