Month: November 2023

Legendary Missouri State and Kansas City Chiefs broadcaster Art Hains is celebrating his birthday with an incredible new gift.

During a birthday celebration for the now 67-year-old, he was given a Super Bowl ring for the Chiefs victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57.

Hains has been the Chiefs pregame and postgame host for several years.

He missed most of last season while battling the effects of West Nile Virus, which has greatly impacted his movement and has confined him to a wheelchair.

Despite it all, the NFL organization wanted to celebrate his years of hard work and contributions to the radio broadcast featuring Danan Hughes and Mitch Holthus.

Due to incredible resilience, Hains is back in the booth for Missouri State home football and men’s basketball games. He is also back doing studio reports for pregame and postgame with the Chiefs.

A man from Springfield registered as a sex offender is now awaiting sentencing after being found guilty on child pornography charges.

Prosecutors say 44-year-old Alvan Allen was found guilty of possession of child pornography.

He was previously convicted of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and failure to register as a sex offender.

Investigators say a search warrant was executed on Allen’s home in 2020, where thousands of images and videos of child porn was seized from his laptop and cell phone.

Due to his prior convictions for child sex crimes, his sentence carries a minimum of 15 years in prison.

Allen’s sentencing hearing has not been scheduled at this time.

Springfield City Council has voted to accept a grant to make improvements at Hammons Field.

Council voted 7-0 to accept 3.8 million dollars from the State.

The money will be used for maintenance at the stadium and for improvements.

There is nothing on the ballot in Greene or Christian counties, but several local cities and counties are deciding key issues at the polls today.

The cities of Branson West, Marshfield, Seymour, and Marionville have a 3% recreational marijuana sales tax on the ballot.

Voters in Barton County are being asked to decide use tax issues.

Bolivar school district voters are considering a 20 cent tax levy to be a part of the Ozarks Technical Community College district. That would allow for tuition discounts to OTC for students from Bolivar.

Branson West also has a water and sewer bond issue and a half cent sales tax issue on the ballot that would fund public safety.

Voters in Branson, Indian Point, and other parts of Stone and Taney Counties are deciding whether to renew a 1% tourism tax.

Nearly 2,000 Springfield City Utilities customers spent part of their weekend with no power after a damaged utility pole resulted in an equipment failure.

Most of the outages were centered around Lakewood Village in South Springfield starting around 5:45 Sunday morning.

Crews had power restored by 10:30 a.m.

Springfield City Council will hear a request to approve a development called Kay Pointe Place at tonight’s city council meeting.

The Planning and Zoning Commission approved the preliminary plan in October.

The proposed development is at 901 South West Bypass and Kay Pointe Boulevard.

The developer, Carleton Resources, wants to make 35 residential and 2 commercial lots from the 30 acres at the location.

Authorities in Taney County are awaiting formal charges on a suspect after he allegedly shot and killed another man in Bradleyville.

Taney County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home Thursday, where they found 52-year-old Jon Lovelace with a gunshot wound.

First-responders attempted life-saving measures, but he eventually died of his injuries at the scene.

Deputies arrested a male suspect at the scene. His identity will not be released until formal charges are filed.

Lawrence County is getting a new health center.

The building will be located on Missouri Drive in Mount Vernon.

The new 5.3 million dollar health department building will be paid for with pandemic recovery money.

The County Commission decided that expanding the health center should be a priority after the pandemic.

The health center has been in a converted grocery store since 1995.

The Republic City Council has approved a raise for the City Administrator that is much smaller than the raises he has recieved the past few years.

An investigation by KOLR-10 revealed David Cameron recieved several 5-figure raises in recent years, including a raise of almost 60-thousand dollars in 2021.

In an August meeting, the City Council approved a 3% merit raise for Cameron of about $8,000.