Fort Leonard Wood News

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. - All area schools in the Fort Leonard Wood area closed Monday morning, but Fort Leonard Wood is maintaining regular operations though a liberal leave policy is in effect for those who can't make it to work at their scheduled reporting times.

Forbes magazine's named Fort Leonard Wood as the third fastest growing small town in America for its almost 18% population growth.

A photo submitted by a Fort Leonard Wood woman is among the finalists in the Smucker's Uncrustables 'Your Unstoppables' Family Photo Contest.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. More than 90 soldiers with the 55th Mobility Augmentation Company, 5th Engineer Battalion, 4th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, were greeted by family members, friends, and comrades who filled the gymnasium at the welcome home ceremony held at Davidson Fitness Center, Feb.

Sen. Claire McCaskill seeks to avoid closing rural post offices under her proposal to maintain six-day mail delivery.

FT. LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- More than 90 soldiers came home Sunday. Friends and family gave a heroes welcome to the 55th Mobile Augmentation Company.

More than 75 soldiers from Fort Leonard Wood are scheduled to return to the Ozarks.

SAINT ROBERT, Mo. - When Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced plans to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Department of Defense based on spending cuts proposed by President Barack Obama, he touched off concern in communities outside most of America's military installations, including Fort Leonard Wood.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. - Fort Leonard Wood officials have recently installed railroad crossing signals at the entrance to the Misty Mountain subdivision on Thunder Road located east of the city of Saint Robert.

Object shown is believed to be a U.S. Mint die for the obverse of the 1920 Manila Mint Opening medal.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- A dream will come true for a man from Plato when he enlists into the United States Army on Tuesday after losing more than 110 pounds.

Financial institutions 3 mo./APY 6 mo./APY 1 yr./APY 2 yr./APY Allstate Bank .10/.10 .30/.30 .50/. WASHINGTON - As Congress digests Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's plans to trim the growth of military spending, members of Congress are again protecting hometown bases and threatening to reject a new round of base closures and consolidations that ... (more)

As we consider our Ozarks cultural heritage it is frequently good to remember that this heritage is being built and continued each day.

Irizarry is the nephew of Joseph Colon of Scotch Plains and son of Lined Colon of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

More than 650 1940s-era buildings - once noisy and alive with the comings and goings of U.S. troops - will be demolished beginning this summer in a $20 million project that will clear away years of now-silent history Brig.

The Crestwood-Sunset Hills Chamber of Commerce kicked off 2012 with the installation of two new Board of Directors members, Tracy Mazanec of Truman Bank and Mike Kempf of Shaggy Sounds DJ.

Missouri National Guard Spc. Alexiss Petree flips a tire as part of the 140th Regiment Missouri Regional Training Institute's Unit Fitness Coordinator Course at Fort Leonard Wood.

The community lined Main Street with American flags Monday afternoon to show support for a family that has faced gut-wrenching challenges in the last week.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. - Waynesville city and school races went from quiet to crowded as filing reopened in January.

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. - When the Waynesville-Saint Robert Chamber of Commerce announced its citizen of the year nominees Friday, the list included a retired command sergeant major who now runs the county's largest hotel operation, two from the financial services industry, a pastor, a civil service retiree, and a furniture store owner.