Ash Grove is getting a $50,000 grant to improve it’s water and treatment facilities.
The grant is from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The city will add 12 thousand dollars to it.
The money will be used to clean pipelines and sewers and fix manholes.
City Clerk Melissa Mau says the town could get additional grants from DNR for more work on the water system.
Missouri’s new photo voter ID law is officially in effect.
The law requires you to show a photo ID when you head to the polls, and also removes mail-in ballots while allowing certain absentee ballots. Student IDs and voter identification cards will no longer work.
The Missouri League of Women Voters sued to block the law, saying it unconstitutionally restricts voting rights by limiting which IDs can be used to cast regular ballots.
Missouri’s new photo voter ID law is officially in effect.
The law requires you to show a photo ID when you head to the polls, and also removes mail-in ballots while allowing certain absentee ballots. Student IDs and voter identification cards will no longer work.
The Missouri League of Women Voters sued to block the law, saying it unconstitutionally restricts voting rights by limiting which IDs can be used to cast regular ballots.
Scattered thunderstorms will track across parts of the Ozarks during the day and into the evening hours Monday.
The National Weather Service says a few storms may become severe both Monday afternoon and evening, with damaging wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour and quarter size hail being the main threats.
Some areas may receive heavy rainfall, with two to three inches possible in some spots.
Drier weather, seasonable temperatures and plenty of sunshine returns to the area starting Tuesday and continuing through the week.
Springfield Police are investigating a body found near a creek.
The body was found near Wabash and Catalpa Saturday morning.
Firefighters had to use a boat to reach the body.
Police believe the person may have died of natural causes.
They do not suspect foul play.
One person is dead after a boat overturned at the Lake of the Ozarks Saturday.
The Highway Patrol says the boat overturned at the 13th mile marker of the lake.
Several passengers were thrown out of the boat, but all were accounted for.
One person was killed, but their name has not been released.
Two people are dead after a crash on Missouri Highway 413 south of Galena.
The Highway Patrol says that a car driven by 84 year old Kenneth Runge of Kimberling City ran off the road on a curve, struck a tree, caught fire and burned.
Runge and a passenger, 80 year old Sharon Runge, both died at the scene.
In a report released from Springfield Police Friday, the number of drug arrests in the city are down, but Chief Paul Williams says that isn’t the result officers are looking for.
Chief Williams said that due to staffing shortages, SPD has been forced to hire more patrol jobs than investigators.
That move has resulted in a 32% decrease in drug-related arrests, as there are not enough officers and investigators to crack down.
According to Chief Williams, however, the department would prefer to have an increase.
Six men charged in the hazing of a University of Missouri student have been back in court.
19-year-old Danny Santulli was allegedly ordered to drink a liter of vodka as a fraternity event. The incident left him blind, in a wheelchair, and unable to speak.
Preliminary hearings for the six were set for September and October.
Five others are charged in the incident.
Springfield Police are looking for a man who tried to rob a Kum and Go store on West Smith Street in North Springfield this morning.
Police say the man had a gun and demanded money, but the clerk refused and the man took off. The same store was robbed early Thursday morning.
Officers believe this morning’s would-be robber held up a Fast and Friendly store at Kansas and Elfindale Thursday.