Month: January 2026

The owner of Springfield’s Hotel of Terror on north Main Street has run into yet another stumbling block in his effort to stop the city from taking his building through eminent domain.

Springfield’s city clerk says Sterling Mathis did not obtain enough valid signatures to challenge the eminent domain process.

Mathis needed to gather 1,499 valid signatures. He collected 2,400, but the city clerk says he came up 125 signatures short by the time all of them were checked for verification.

The owner has until February 9th to obtain the remaining signatures needed to challenge the city’s decision and potentially send the matter to a public vote.

A number of schools have had kids out of the classroom for a whole week now following last week’s winter storm.

Here are the southwest Missouri public schools and colleges closed on Friday:

Alton

Ava

Bakersfield (AMI Day #4)

Cabool (AMI Day #2)

Cassville

Couch

Dent-Phelps

Dora

Eminence

Everton (AMI Day #4)

Exeter

Glenwood R-8

Green Forest (MO) R-2

Greenfield (AMI Day #2)

Hartville (AMI Day #4)

Houston

Koshkonong (AMI Day #5)

Laquey

Lutie

Manes (AMI Day #5)

Mountain Grove (AMI Day #1)

Mountain View-Birch Tree Liberty

Niangua (AMI Day #1)

North Wood R-4

Norwood (AMI Day #4)

Oak Hill R-1

Ozark Mountain School District

Plainview (AMI Day #2)

Plato (Closed, Daycare Open)

Pleasant Hope (AMI Day #2)

Shell Knob

Skyline R-2 (Norwood)

Skyview

Southwest Barry County R-5 (AMI Day #5)

Thayer

Thornfield (AMI Day #5)

Van Buren

West Plains

Wheaton (AMI Day #5)

Willow Springs

Springfield Police are investigating another shooting incident near the M-S-U campus.

Officers responded to a welfare check on East Elm Street Thursday afternoon.

They found one person dead from a gunshot wound and another person with life-threatening injuries.

That person was taken to a local hospital.

The investigation is ongoing with more information to be provided as it becomes available.

The new Target store at 3444 W. Sunshine Street in Springfield will open on March 15.

This second location spans approximately one hundred forty-eight thousand square feet and includes an expanded selection of produce, meat, and dairy, as well as an Apple store, C-V-S pharmacy, and Starbucks Cafe.

The new store will create around 180 job opportunities.

There’s a chance for light snow showers in parts of the Ozarks Thursday afternoon.

The National Weather Service says areas north of I-44 may see flurries, but folks south of the interstate are more likely to see light snow showers.

Accumulations will be less than a half inch, with little to no impacts expected on the roads.