Month: May 2024

The swimming beach at Cape Fair Campground has been closed until further notice.

The Army Corp of Engineers and the Table Rock Project Office closed the beach due to a higher than acceptable level of E. coli found in routine tests.

The Corp has posted signs at the beach warning of high bacteria levels.

Park rangers will reopen the beach when test results acceptable bacteria levels.

Authorities in Springfield are trying to locate the suspect in a stabbing that left one person injured in downtown Springfield.

Springfield Police say the stabbing took place Thursday night at the intersection of South Avenue and McDaniel Street.

When officers arrived, they found a man with a stab wound to his torso.

The victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, where he is being treated for his injuries. The man is in stable condition.

Investigators say the suspect in the stabbing was seen fleeing the scene in a red pickup, and SPD is currently searching for both the vehicle and the suspect, who’s identity has not been released.

The Missouri Broadcasters Association, two lawyers and a journalist filed a lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court seeking to invalidate court redaction requirements.

The lawsuit has to do with a provision slipped into a larger bill at the end of the 2023 legislative session which requires attorneys and court personnel to redact the names of witnesses and victims from court documents.

The statue was not debated on the floor of either chamber of the General Assembly.

The petition argues that the statute violates both the U-S and Missouri Constitutions.

Gas prices are dropping now that the Memorial Day weekend is over.

A press release from A-A-A says prices will be dropping ten cents.

According to the press release, the average price of gas in Springfield is around three dollars.

Missouri has the eighth lowest gas prices in the U-S.

A man has been sentenced to prison for a shooting in 2021.

A judge sentenced Mikal Johnson to 22 years in prison for second-degree murder in connection to the shooting of 44-year-old Christopher Kuder.

The shooting happened on Atlantic Street in Springfield in June of 2021.

He was also sentenced to seven years for unlawfully possessing a firearm which will run concurrently with the murder sentence.

A woman is in custody in Howell County after she admitted to drinking before crashing a car that killed a man and injured two others.

Investigators say 20-year-old Taylor Hamby was driving a Jeep Cherokee along Highway ZZ in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 23, when the car went off the road, hit three separate fences and then flipped in a nearby field.

Highway Patrol troopers arrived at the scene, and found 28-year-old Brian Powell and two others in the vehicle with injuries.

Powell was later pronounced dead. Hamby and the other two were transported to Ozarks Healthcare with moderate injuries.

When authorities talked with her, she admitted to drinking 5-7 beers prior to operating the vehicle.

Hamby is charged with DWI resulting in a death, and two counts of DWI resulting in physical injury.