Ash Grove News

Helping my grandfather lift, stack and haul square bales of hay in his Ford pickup truck was not my favorite summer job -- at least not until I got a paycheck for the work.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has found no problems with the brakes on a tractor-trailer that plowed into stalled cars in a turnpike accident that killed 10 people.

In area traffic work to watch for in the coming week: - One-lane traffic is possible on Routes M and ZZ east of Republic.

Absentee ballots are available for eligible Ash Grove residents who are unable to go to their regular polling place Aug.

A living history encampment of the First United States Dragoons will be held Saturday at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site near Ash Grove.

These new area road jobs can be expected today . - Lanes closed on U.S. 160 between Ash Grove and the Greene-Lawrence County line.

A line of storms that turned the sky black during morning rush hour produced only minor damage in Greene County Tuesday, but areas around the Lake of the Ozarks were hit harder.

Watch for this area road work today : - One eastbound lane of Chestnut Expressway closed, West Avenue to Kansas Expressway.

Channel your inner imagination, says nationally known and acclaimed storyteller Beth Horner.

The National Weather Service at 10:31 p.m. issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Greene County and a flash flood warning for Greene, Lawrence and Newton counties until 3 a.m. At 10:27 p.m., NWS radar indicated a line of slow-moving thunderstorms with heavy rainfall extending from near Neosho to Mount Vernon to near Ash Grove.

From a U.S. Attorney press release SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced Friday that the former street department superintendent for the city of Nixa, Mo., along with his wife and another former city worker, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for a series of mail ...

The Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management is asking parents of students at Fair Grove, Strafford and Ash Grove to wait to pick up their students.

Damage reports coming in from area towns Although structural damage from storms that passed through the region this morning appears to be most widespread in Republic, there have been damage reports in Ash Grove, Willard and in Springfield.

A roof blew off one classroom at Bois D'Arc Elementary during the storms this morning, but no one was hurt, reports Principal Mary Mays.

Two Fair Grove High School students suffered minor injuries when heavy winds hit the school this morning, emergency responders said.

Two Ash Grove teens suffered serious injuries and two women suffered moderate injuries today in a two-vehicle crash near Halltown, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

A program at St. John's Health System to rehabilitate patients to safely operate a car again has gotten a boost from the Greene County Senior Citizen's Service Fund.

Ozark -- To the strains of bluegrass and gospel, the weekly Ozark Square Farmers Market and Music On the Square season kicked off Thursday evening as eager vendors set up shop and dozens of folks pulled their lawn chairs in around the gazebo to enjoy music by the Missouri Mountain Gang.

Crime Stoppers is asking for help in locating Matthew Glenn. Glenn is wanted in Greene County for two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and in Laclede County for violating probation after a forgery conviction.

Crime Stoppers is seeking information on the location of Matthew Allen Glenn, 23, who is wanted on a Greene County warrant for first-degree statutory sodomy and a Laclede County warrant for parole violation on a forgery conviction.