State Budget Director Dan Haug announced today that 2026 fiscal year-to-date net general revenue collections increased 0.7 percent compared to July 2024, from $833.5 million last year to $839.0 ...

Matthew David Reihm was born June 10th, 1991, at West Plains, Missouri to Matthew W. Reihm and Sharon May Burns.

Ada Alvena (Renegar) Yarber, daughter of Claud and Elsie (Orchard) Renegar, was born April 1, 1935, in the Pleasant Grove Community where she lived all her life.

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At a traffic stop on July 3, Mountain View’s Midnight Andrews, 32, warned police, “in about 10 seconds, I’m about to get rowdy,” and then he did.

WILLOW SPRINGS A Willow Springs man suffered a gunshot wound after an argument with an estranged girlfriend, according to an early morning press release. At 1:30 a.m.

10 a.m. Old-fashioned Fourth of July Parade The parade route is running backwards this year. The parade will begin at Ferguson St. and wind down Main to Booster Field.

Arrests June 2 Colby Lee Crossley, 33, burglary – second degree Sasha Blue Ledbetter Potter, 28, burglary – second degree Victor N Plyushchev, 26, assault – third degree, resisting or interfering with ...

Lawyers for Lance Shockley, the Van Buren man sentenced to death in the 2005 shooting death of Sergeant Carl D. Graham, Jr.

A group of young students from Willow Springs were kept safe during the tornado events earlier this month thanks to the quick thinking of their bus driver.