Month: January 2023

Prosecutors in Pulaski County say a man is being charged with numerous crimes after allegedly shooting and killing a man in St. Robert.

Authorities say Tyron Spense-Bey killed Robin Keppel Wednesday afternoon at a home on Hobo Lane before fleeing the scene.

He was arrested shortly after the shooting.

Prosecutors have charged Spence-Bey with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.

His bail has been set for $1 million, but investigators say the search for further evidence is ongoing.

A man from Gravette, Arkansas is on trial in connection with the January 6 riots.

Court records show that three witnesses are on the docket to testify against 62-year-old Richard Barnett.

Prosecutors have charged Barnett with eight federal charges in the case as a part of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

The jury trail against him started on Tuesday, and on Wednesday three witnesses were called to the stand.

They included a member of Nancy Pelosi’s staff, a police officer at the Capitol, and a co-worker of Barnett’s at the Bass Pro Shops location in Rogers, Arkansas.

Barnett has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges he’s facing, which include:

• Obstruction of an official proceeding
• Aiding and abetting
• Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon
• Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon
• Entering and remaining in certain rooms in the Capitol Building
• Disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building
• Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building T
• heft of government property.

Customers of the Stockton Hills Water Company in Cedar County will need to boil their water until further notice.

A spokesperson with the company says a line was cut by a utility worker in three places. The company says it will inform customers when they can stop boiling their water.

A State Representative from Springfield has filed a bill to eliminate the tax on Diapers and Formula.

Representative Stephanie Hein says ending the sales tax on formula and diapers would help young families financially.

Similar bills have been filed in the State House and Senate.

A band of snowfall is moving through parts of southwest Missouri Thursday morning, with moderate to heavy periods of snow expected.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory until noon for areas along and north of Highway 60, including Springfield.

The weather service says as of 7 a.m., two to three inches of snow have fallen in the Lake of the Ozarks region, with one to two inches expected as the snow moves toward the I-44 corridor.

Forecasters say minor accumulations of less than an inch are expected in Springfield, with higher amounts of two to three inches from Nevada to Clinton, Warsaw, Osage Beach and Lebanon.

We’ve received reports of numerous slide-offs and wrecks across central Missouri, and that band of snow will continue to track south.

The weather service says some of this will melt as it falls, leaving lighter slushy accumulations.

Additionally, winds gusting up to 30 to 40 miles per hour will occur at times behind a cold front through Thursday.

Get road conditions from across the Ozarks and around the state with the MoDOT Traveler Information Map here.

A man is dead and another under arrest in a shooting near St. Robert.

Pulaski County Deputies responded to a home on Hobo Lane around 3 pm Wednesday.

The victim was a man in his seventies.

Deputies arrested the suspect at the scene.

He is currently in the Pulaski County Jail.

No names are being released at this time.

A Christian boarding school in Cedar County that has been under scrutiny says it will close.

The Agape Boarding School in Stockton has been the subject of state and local investigations and several lawsuits from former students.

A spokesman for the school said the decision was voluntary and due to a lack of money.

It will stop providing services on January 20.

A Highlandville police sergeant has resigned.

At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, sergeant Norman Clark handed in his resignation.

This leaves only one other full-time officer on the force.

In his resignation letter, Clark said he is grateful to have helped the people of Highlandville.

City leaders in Nixa are working to get a tax initiative on the April ballot.

A one cent sales tax increase to fund the police and parks department was voted down last November. Both departments have been making budget cuts ever since.
The new tax proposal calls for a three quarter cent increase. City officials estimate it would generate 3.1 million dollars.

The Nixa city council will hold a public hearing at city hall Thursday to decide on putting it on the April ballot.