Mount Vernon News Archives

Clarence August Kullman, 97, of Springfield, died Tuesday, May 27, 2008. He was born Feb.

A Mount Vernon man was injured in a single-vehicle accident at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on Route M, two miles east of Mount Vernon in Lawrence County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Today is Memorial Day. In the days before artificial silk flowers, folks decorated family graves with armloads of fresh irises and peonies gathered from their yards.

Murray Bishoff Managing Editor Published May 22, 2008 4:00 PM CDT Tallies for calls fielded through both Monett, Barry County dispatch centers on May 10 show where limits of current systems lie The May 10 storm ...

Small children and decorated war veterans alike turned their heads to blue sky Saturday as the blades of a Black Hawk helicopter whirred overhead.

For exceptional performance, Charlie Ingram at right was given the Warren A. Kramer Award from the recent Missouri Water and Wastewater Conference, for the southwest section.

Dottie Rambo, known as the "undisputed queen of southern gospel music", will be featured on an episode of Faith and Fame on May 17th. via BellaOnline

Joyce 'Dottie' Rambo, gospel music legendary singer and songwriter, died early Sunday morning when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment, in Mount Vernon, Missouri. via LifeWay

“We will pick it up and put the ball back into their court”

' Senators completed work on a broad bill targeting illegal immigrants Wednesday, but stopped just short of a vote because of questions about its cost and jockeying over an unrelated measure. via Columbia Missourian

Gospel singer Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, 74, died May 11 when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment, according to The Associated Press. via LiveDaily News

Gospel singer-songwriter Joyce "Dottie" Rambo died today when the bus she was in ran off a road in southwest Missouri and struck an embankment. via KSDK-TV Saint Louis

“He rode down the street and he dropped something”

Three prosecution witnesses testified yesterday in the Wilfredo Santiago murder retrial that they saw the defendant on the street around the time that Police Officer Thomas Trench was killed in May 1985. via Philly.com

About 30 minutes west of the intersection of James River Freeway and Campbell Avenue, in the center of Mount Vernon, there is a brand-new winery that is open to the public and welcomes visitors. via Springfield News Leader