Southern View News

CITY BRIEFS: Water shut-offs approved, Officer Aaron Pickett sworn in and more Send a link to a friend [ July 19, 2011 ] M onday evening Alderman Buzz Busby took a seat at the head of the table in the city council chambers, fulfilling his appointed duties as mayor pro tem in the absence of Mayor Keith Snyder.

A donation from Springfield city employees was very timely Thursday. Mayor Frank Edwards held a press conference just hours after a 7.1 magnitude aftershock rocked the same area of Japan affected by last month's earthquake and tsunami.

A Southern View family got a surprise delivery during Tuesday's blizzard. Angela Fox went into labor early Wednesday morning, in the middle of a blizzard that dumped nearly a foot of snow on the capital city.

A high-speed pursuit in a stolen cop car came to a peaceful end in Morgan County Monday afternoon.