A man is dead after a crash on Route “V” near Mount Vernon.
The Highway Patrol says a utility truck driven by 38-year-old Charles Toler of Dadeville ran off the road, overturned and struck a fence.
He was trying to avoid an oncoming front loader.
Toler was pronounced dead at the scene.
Lebanon Police are investigating a shooting incident that injured a man Sunday.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired at a house on Amy Drive.
They found a man with gunshot wounds.
He was taken to a hospital.
His name and condition have not been released.
Police say they have a person of interest in mind.
They say he and the victim knew each other.
A man from Springfield will spend over a decade in prison on charges stemming from a shooting downtown that injured one person.
20-year-old Kerry Brooks was charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon after investigators say he shot another man in the foot in a parking garage on August 28 of last year.
He was arrested and charged two weeks later, on September 15.
Police saw video footage of the incident, where a person who appeared to be Brooks was carrying a handgun. The suspect pointed the handgun at a vehicle, forcing the driver out of the car.
At that time, another car pulled up with multiple people coming to the scene to assault the victim. Brooks then shot the man in the foot before fleeing the scene.
When authorities arrived, the victim was the only one at the scene.
The man told investigators Brooks asked to use a vape pen, but he said no.
Brooks was sentenced to 14 years in prison, seven for assault, four years for armed criminal action and three for assault.
The sentences will be served consecutively.
A man from Topeka is in custody in Springfield after allegedly shooting and killing an infant in Kansas.
29-year-old Alfred Smith was arrested in Springfield Thursday, July 20, and is being held in the Greene County Jail.
Investigators say Smith went to an apartment in Topeka to visit Toyana Taylor-Adams and their son, two-month-old Alonzoe on the night of July 14th.
Taylor-Adams says she hadn’t seen him since he abandoned her and the baby a few days after he was born.
She stepped outside the apartment to call relatives to let them know Smith was visiting when she heard a gunshot.
When Taylor-Adams came back up the stairs, she was met by Smith, holding the baby in his arms with blood on him and the child.
A GoFundMe page has been set up for Alonzoe’s funeral services.
Prosecutors say Smith is being held without bond due to him crossing state lines as a fugitive.
The details of his charges have not been released at this time.
The water is back on in Branson after a water main broke Saturday.
Crews had to turn off water in the area of Eiserman Avenue and Parnell Drive while they repaired the break.
The City of Branson is in the process of replacing old water mains and services throughout the city, which officials say will reduce the number of issues in the future.
Mercy Health Care plans to build an emergency department in South Springfield.
The ER will be built at the same location of Mercy Orthopeic Hospital- Springfield, which is off Highway 65 near the Greene-Christian county line.
It will make emergency services more accesible to people in Christian County.
Mercy officials say the new emergency department will open in 2025.
A man from Nixa will spend several years in prison for charges stemming from the stabbing of a teenage girl that occurred at his house.
Prosecutors say Joe Dutton entered into an Alford Plea earlier this week on charges of:
According to investigators, a teenage girl was at Dutton’s home and was stabbed several times.
Several people had arrived at the home in June of 2021 for a fight that was expected to happen.
The victim’s mother said her daughter and Dutton’s had previous disputes, and that Dutton’s daughter had threatened her several times prior to the stabbing.
It is unclear to KWTO whether Dutton or his daughter stabbed the victim.
The Alford Plea is not an admission of guilt, but an admission that the prosecution had more than enough evidence to get a conviction in the case. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
A man from Springfield will spend several years in prison for a murder that he did not commit during a home invasion.
Investigators say Rick Johnson Jr, his father Rick Johnson Sr. and Joshua Woods were attempting to break into a unit at an apartment complex in Springfield in June of 2020.
Both men said they were searching for a person they believe stole from the elder Johnson.
While breaking into the apartment, the resident inside opened fire, shooting and killing Woods.
Prosecutors say that while neither of the two men fired the shot that killed Woods, the death occurred during a felony crime they were taking part in, making them culpable to second-degree murder charges according to Missouri law.
The elder Johnson was sentenced to 12 years in prison earlier this year, while Johnson Jr. was sentenced to 15 years in prison this week after changing his plea to guilty.
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The City of Springfield is hoping to take a more proactive approach to combat nuisance properties.
“Right now, it just seems like an endless cycle of, you know, small fines, small threats of fines for minor resolutions, and then continuing the cycle,” Duane Keys, West Central Neighborhood Alliance President.
One neighborhood in particular, West Central, had 1,150 complaints in a five-year period.
The city is planning on changing the way it handles repeat nuisance properties, with a property care team being established in 2024.
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The Vince Lombardi Trophy is coming to the Queen City.
This morning, July 21, the City of Springfield Mayor Ken McClure announced that the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl trophy will be featured at the Route 66 Festival. The Kansas City Chiefs cheerleaders, Rumble drumline, Kingdom Cruiser bus and KC Wolf will accompany it.
“We are thrilled to be at the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival as part of the Chiefs Champion Tour this summer,” wrote Chiefs President Mark Donovan in a press release. “With a global pandemic in 2020, we were not able to celebrate properly with Chiefs Kingdom after our Super Bowl LIV victory, so this tour has been something we have been looking forward to for the past couple of years.”
Visitors who want to see the display can do so on Aug. 11. The trophy will be the main attraction at a rally from 4-6 p.m. at the Springfield Expo Center. At 6 p.m. the bus and entourage will leave the Expo Center and join the festival parade. At 7 p.m., the cheerleaders and drumline will perform at the Aaron Sachs Stage.