A Jet Rescue Air Ambulance bound for Springfield-Branson National Airport crashed shortly after taking off from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport.
The F-A-A confirms that 6 people were on board, but no word on the condition of the passengers or their names.
The Lear Jet crashed around 6:30 pm our time.
It was on a medical assignment.
Philadelphia Police say there are injuries on the ground and multiple houses on fire.
We will keep you up to date on the situation.
Branson State Representative Brian Seitz has introduced a resolution that would prohibit abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected.
An exception would be made for cases of medical emergencies. In November, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to an abortion.
The resolution has had two readings in the House, but is not currently scheduled for another hearing.
A contractor from Stone County has pleaded guilty to charges of deceptive business practices.
Eddie Sides received a suspended sentence and five years probation. He was also ordered to pay more than $49,000 in restitution.
Investigators say Sides took money from customers for various construction jobs, did not perform the work, and did not give the customers refunds.
Drury University in Springfield has launched a master’s program in Athletic and Sports Administration.
The degree is designed to equip professionals with the skills and expertise needed to excel in the rapidly growing sports industry.
The program begins this fall and offers a combination of online, in-person, and blended coursework for aspiring leaders in athletic and sports management.
Several area schools are dismissing classes Friday because of flu outbreaks.
Some of these schools have had to call off their basketball games and homecoming events because of the influenza.
Among the schools that will be closed on Friday are:
Cabool
Climax Springs
Everton
Houston R-1
Licking
Lutie
Purdy
Spokane.
It is best to check with your child’s school district Facebook page.
The Springfield Board of Public Utilities approves financing to support the city’s future energy needs.
The cost of the power supply project is approximately $280.
The payments will be covered by existing funds and future rate adjustments.
Rate adjustments would have to be approved by the Board and City Council.
The first possible rate adjustment would not happen until 2027.
Here is a news release from the C-U:
A part owner of Specialty Foods in Joplin and six others have pleaded guilty to conspiring to hire and transport illegal immigrants across the Midwest.
José Luis Bravo admitted that he and the other defendants helped workers to immigrate to and live in the U.S. illegally.
Bravo and his co-conspirators created Specialty Foods Distribution and other companies to operate restaurants in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas, where the undocumented workers were employed.
Springfield Police have issued an Endangered Silver Advisory for a missing man.
Police say 67-year-old Scott Chisholm disappeared from the area of Glenstone and Chestnut Expressway on January 18 around 5:30 AM.
He was driving a white Toyota Camary with Missouri plates L-G-0-K-5-T.
His family says Chisholm has Parkinson Disease.
If you see Chisolm, you are asked to call 9-1-1 or the Springfield Police.
The Greene County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting west of Springfield Tuesday.
Springfield police received a report that a juvenile female had been shot and killed at an unknown location. A woman later called the Greene County Sheriff’s Office to report her daughter missing from the 5600 block of West Farm Road 140.
Deputies searched the location and found the girl’s body in a brushy area behind a house. Detectives are trying to locate persons of interest. Sheriff’s officials say there is no threat to the public.
In response to the Trump administration, and the moves Governor Kehoe plans to make, Missouri State University is ending all DEI programs effective immediately.
These changes include “discontinuing limited instances where individual departments required diversity statements from job applicants, eliminating diversity hiring policies that streamlined the hiring process for diverse faculty and staff candidates, removing scholarship requirements that limited eligibility based on race, sex and other characteristics. This included institutional, college/department and donor-funded scholarships, and removing program participation requirements that limited eligibility based on race, sex and other characteristics.”
While the Office Of Inclusive Management is going away, all employees who were hired before the creation of the office will be retained, and all others will be moved to open positions across the university.
President Richard Williams explained the reasoning saying “38% of our budget comes from the state. For us to continue providing a quality education to our students, we must align with the requirements laid out by state leadership.”