Month: July 2024

A suspect has been charged in the shooting deaths of two people last Friday.

The Greene County Prosecutors Office has charged 39-year-old Jeffrey Garrett of St. Louis with 2 counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the deaths of 46-year-old Jack Osborn and 44-year-old Melissa Smith on West Chestnut Street on July 5^th.

Springfield Police are looking for Garrett.

If you where he is, you are asked to contact the Springfield Police or call Crime Stoppers.    

The Springfield-Greene County Health Department is moving back to the Harold K. Bengsch Building.

The building on Chestnut Expressway has been undergoing renovations.

The move will take place on July 29 and lab services, records and vaccinations will be unavailable that day.

The Health Department has been working out of the Cox Tower while the Bengsch Building was renovated.

A woman is under arrested after a crash in Ozark injured a 14-year-old boy.

The Ozark Police Department says the crash happened Sunday afternoon when a woman allegedly struck the boy as he was riding a bicycle on West Walnut Street.

The boy suffered injuries to one leg and other minor injuries.

He was treated and released from a local hospital.

The woman was arrested for suspected driving while intoxicated.

Her name is not being released pending charges.

The Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation (OACOAC) says it will be able to help more families than ever before now that income limits have been raised.

Rental assistance, help with utilities, classes, and other benefits were limited to families making $25,550 or less per year. Missouri has now raised that limit to $40,880.

Bridgette Allen with OACOAC says the state finally raised that limit after encouragement from OACOAC and other community action groups

A man from Kansas is dead after investigators say he drowned in Stockton Lake over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Highway Patrol troopers say 60-year-old Craig Olsen was swimming near a pontoon boat Saturday evening near the Stockton Dam when he went underwater and never resurfaced.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Cedar County Deputy Corner later that evening, and next of kin has been notified.

It is the third drowning in MSHP Troop D’s area so far this year.

A woman is dead, and a man is in custody in connection with a fatal hit-and-run near Joplin.

Investigators say 60-year-old Sheldonna Wood was walking along Douglas Fir Road Friday night, July 5, which is south of Joplin near I-44.

While she was walking, she was hit by a pickup truck being driven by 35-year-old Richard Taylor, who was driving west when his car went off the roadway and allegedly hit Wood.

Taylor fled the scene before paramedics arrived at the scene. Wood was pronounced dead at the scene.

Highway Patrol troopers were later able to locate Taylor, and place him under arrest at a home in Carterville, Missouri.

He is being held without bond on multiple charges, including leaving the scene of a crash resulting in a fatality, and DWI resulting in the death of another person.

One man is in custody after a chase involving Springfield police and Greene County deputies.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office says the pursuit began Sunday around 2 pm on Kansas Expressway near Norton Road.

The chase, which reached speeds up to 65 miles per hour while going down Kansas Expressway, involved several deputies and Springfield police officers.

It ended when deputies were able to box in the suspect near Kansas and Sunshine and the driver was taken into custody.

Authorities say the driver was possibly impaired at the time.