Month: May 2024

Absentee voting has begun in Greene County for the June 18th elections.

There’s an election for the Mayoral race in Willard between Samuel Snider and Troy Smith, and a race for Fair Grove’s Ward 2 Alderman.

In-Person Absentee voting is open at the Greene County archives fat 1126 Boonville weekdays from 8-5, or you can mail in a request by filling out a form available at Vote.GreeneCountyMo.Gov

Emergency Management Officials in Greene County say “too many” sirens went off in Greene County during Monday night’s storms.

A tornado was issued for northern Greene, but sirens went off all over the county.

Officials say a software problem caused the sirens to go off outside of the warning area when the system failed to narrow the warning area down.

Officials are now working to fix the issue

Firefighters rescued a woman and her dog from the James River Tuesday afternoon.

Logan-Rogersville Fire Protection District officials say the woman had parked her car north of Kinser Bridge on Farm Road 164 on high ground, but the water began to rise.

The woman tried to drive away, but her car stalled.

Firefighters were able to reach the woman and move her and her dog to higher ground.

More severe weather is on the way for the Ozarks on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service says there will be two rounds of severe weather: one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

The main hazards will be baseball-sized hail, high winds, and tornadoes, with some localized heavy rainfall and flooding.  

Many are still recovering from the multiple lines of severe weather that moved northeast across the Ozarks late Monday night into early Tuesday morning.

Beginning around 11:30pm Monday night and lasting until around 3:00am Tuesday morning the storms caused damage to trees, vehicles, and buildings in Southeastern Missouri.

A radar confirmed tornado touched down in Willard 3 miles west of the Green Hills Golf Course.

 A woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of U-S 160 and Rescue Lane in Highlandville.

The Highway Patrol says a car driven by 80-year-old Norma Whisnant of Clever Crossed over the centerline into oncoming traffic and was struck on the driver’s side of by a truck.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Springfield Police are looking for a car that was involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash.

Police say a Jeep driven by 44-year-old Bryan Hasler attempted to pass a silver sedan at the intersection of Cherry and Oak Grove when the sedan struck the Jeep causing it to leave the road and crash into a pole.

Hasler was taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries.

Investigators don’t have any other information than it was silver sedan.

If you have any information, you are asked to contact Springfield Police at 417-864-1810.

The body of a man swept off a bridge last week has now been found.

Highway Patrol Troopers found Brian Richardson of Pottersville about a half mile down Bryant Creek from Warren Bridge. Richardson was in his pickup truck on the bridge when it was swept away by high water due to the recent storms.

Troopers say Richardson was able to exit his truck, but likely never resurfaced.