(Photo courtesy of Branson Fire-Rescue Facebook)
A woman has died, and a man was injured in a house fire in Branson.
Crews from Branson Fire-Rescue responded to a residential fire on Oklahoma Street around 4 AM Thursday.
The house was fully engulfed.
A man outside said a woman was still inside.
Crews got the woman out but could not save her, but she died at the scene.
The State Fire Marshal says fire was caused by a power chord on a space heater.
The Springfield Police Department has reported that the suspect wanted in connection to the Club Rodeo shooting that occurred on Sunday, October 19.
In a press release, the department says that Webster County Sheriff’s deputies, Springfield Police officers, and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office’s K9 unit arrested 20-year-old Zachary Degraffenreid on a warrant connected to the shooting.
SPD officers responded to a shooting call outside Club Rodeo on Sunday around 12:21 a.m., where they found a woman with a gunshot wound.
She was taken to the hospital with serious injuries but she was in stable condition.
The suspect, now identified as Degraffenreid, fled prior to officers arriving on the scene and was not located at the time of the shooting.
Degraffenreid is charged with unlawful use of a weapon and is being held without bond.
Detectives are continuing the investigation and ask that anyone with additional information on the shooting to contact the Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810 or make an anonymous report to Crime Stoppers at 417-869-TIPS (8477).
Photo courtesy of Greene County Sheriff’s Office.
A woman from Missouri has been accused of playing a major role in a nationwide lottery mail fraud scheme that cost victims over $2 million.
Federal prosecutors have charged 79-year-old Sharon Dolisi of St. James with felony mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and wire fraud.
Dolisi was arrested on October 8 during an arrest warrant operation involving the FBI, postal inspection service and housing development.
According to investigators, Dolisi helped run a lottery fraud scheme that tricked victims across the nation to believe they had won the Mega Millions lottery and the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.
Victims were told that they would receive their “winnings” after they prepaid thousands of dollars in taxes and fees through the U.S. Postal Service and other delivery services.
Officials say that Dolisi stole $2.1 million through the scheme, keeping some for herself but sending the rest to her co-conspirators in Jamaica.
She has been charged and will be prosecuted through the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Missouri.
Photo courtesy of Envato Elements.
Residents of Dent County are invited to take part in an upcoming hunter education course coming to the county.
According to a press release by the Missouri Department of Conservation, the course is scheduled for Monday, October 27 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Ozark Natural and Cultural Resource Center in Salem, MO.
MDC states that those who attend the skills session of the course are required to have been born on or after January 1, 1967, who are 16 years old or older, and who are looking to purchase firearms hunting permits in the state of Missouri.
The course will cover firearm handling, hunting ethics, regulations, and wildlife conservation practices.
More information on the course and other requirements can be found on MDC’s website.
Photo courtesy of Missouri Department of Conservation.
A man from Taney County has died following a crash on Wednesday.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 72-year-old man from Forsyth, MO died on private property three miles east of Taneyville.
The MSHP crash report states that the accident occurred as the man was driving a side-by-side with a 64-year-old man, also from Forsyth, when the vehicle travelled through tall grass and went off an embankment.
The reports indicates that the side-by-side was found overturned on a creek bank.
The 72-year-old man was pronounced dead on the scene, and his next of kin has been notified.
This is the 112th fatality for MSHP Troop D this year.
Photo courtesy of Missouri State Highway Patrol.
President Donald Trump has announced that the state of Missouri will receive $2.5 million for individual assistance following severe weather that hit the state earlier this year.
Trump stated in a Truth Social post that he had spoken with Governor Mike Kehoe about him approving the funds for severe storms, high winds, large hail, flash flooding and tornadoes that the state faced in the early months of 2025.
One such disaster was the May 16 tornado that hit St. Louis, resulting in five deaths and an estimated $1.6 billion in damages.
Kehoe posted on Truth Social as well, thanking President Trump for the additional assistance and indicating that the funds will go to areas in southwest Missouri that were hit.
Trump ended his post by showing gratitude to the state of Missouri, which he won the votes of in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections.
Photo courtesy of Trump White House Archive.
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office officials have reported that were found dead in a home in the Arkansas county.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported death in the eastern part of Fulton County, and while checking the home, they discovered two people who were “obviously deceased”.
Fulton County Sheriff Jake Smith said the county coroner and the Arkansas State Police were contacted and the state police are processing the scene.
Further details cannot be released about the situation due to the ongoing investigation, but State Police troopers and Drug Task Force officers have been checking on leads throughout north central Arkansas.
Sheriff Smith did state that no evidence has been found that indicates the public is in any great danger.
Photo courtesy of Envato Elements.
(Luke Lygrisse (left) & Dave Snider (right) – Photo Courtesy of Honor Flight of the Ozarks)
Honor Flight of the Ozarks announced that 81 veterans and 81 guardians will depart Springfield National Airport on October 29 for the last Honor Flight of 2025 to Washington, D.C.
Seven veterans served in the Korean War and 73 in the Vietnam War.
Springfield Catholic Senior Luke Lygrisse raised his guardian fee and also presented Honor Flight with additional check for $1,500 that he had on social media.
Veterans and guardians will return from the trip around 7:30 p.m.
Residents interested in welcoming them home are asked to be at the airport by 7 p.m.
A woman has been arrested by Douglas County deputies after allegedly assaulting her partner with garden shears and trying to run him over with his vehicle.
Online court records show that Cheri Newark of Norwood, MO is charged with first-degree domestic assault with serious physical injury and armed criminal action.
According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were sent to a home on State Highway WW in Ava, MO after receiving a domestic assault report around 6:30 p.m.
The incident began as a verbal altercation between Newark and the victim over a relationship issue, and the victim went to drive away, but Newark got in his car and started throwing things out.
The victim also says that Newark was hitting and kicking him, and he pushed Newark in the neck area and hit her back in defense.
After that, Newark grabbed a pair of garden shears and hit him multiple times in the head and making him bleed.
The victim left his vehicle and ran back towards his property when she drove his vehicle towards him, causing him to duck behind a tree.
During questioning, Newark told authorities that the victim had been choking her in the vehicle, which caused her to strike him with the shears.
She also denied trying to run over him, claiming that if she really wanted to run him over, she would have.
The victim also said that he and Newark were in a romantic relationship at the time, though Newark denied that their relationship was romantic.
Newark was determined to be the primary aggressor after the investigation, and is currently being held in the Douglas County Jail on a $10,000 cash-only bond.
Photo courtesy of Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
All modes of severe weather will be possible in the Ozarks on Saturday.
The National Weather Service says scattered showers and storms will move into western Missouri late Friday night, and some of those could be strong to severe around the I-49 corridor and the northwestern Ozarks.
Storms will become more widespread south of I-44 by Saturday afternoon.
A few of those storms may be strong to severe, with the greatest risk along and south of I-44 during the late morning and early afternoon hours.
We’ll keep you up to date with any watches and warnings on 93-3 and AM 560 KWTO.