Springfield News

The Springfield Police Department will host a graduation ceremony Friday for the 59th Springfield Police Academy, according to a news release.

A Springfield man was hit in the head with a handgun in an early-morning break-in in which the suspects asked specifically for another resident, Springfield police said.

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Thousands of kids around the world will have a brighter Christmas thanks to a global project.

City fire marshals have case files on several unsolved arsons in the past few weeks.

A Springfield man has been charged in connection with a Thursday afternoon house fire, according to the Springfield Fire Department.

This is less than two months after Hillcrest High School student Kimberly Armstrong was critically injured by a car while walking to school.

Albert Lee Brown and his roommate Deborah Green had visited their parents, and had just stopped off to get some fast food when friends called them about reports of an explosion or a plane crash in their neighborhood.

Police are looking for three men who broke into a home and robbed the residents at gunpoint.

A federal grand jury indicted the owners of Guaranty Title, formerly headquartered in Nixa, for participating in a $2.6 million conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

At a Campaign Celebration on Wednesday evening, United Way of the Ozarks Campaign chair Maurice Henry, senior vice president of Associated Wholesale Grocers, announced that $3,500,000 has been reported in this year's annual United Way campaign.

The driver whose car hit and critically injured a high school student met with her father to talk about the ordeal.

Missouri hopes to freeze tuition rates at four-year public colleges and universities for the second year in a row.

Crime Stoppers is asking for help locating Carlton Williamson, who is wanted on the following warrants: second-degree robbery, parole absconder, forgery, resisting arrest and multiple other misdemeanor warrants.

Driving on the wrong side of the road may not seem like a logical way to design a highway interchange, but that's the concept behind a new intersection in southwest Missouri that Popular Science magazine has named one of its 100 best innovations of the year.

Students at Missouri's public universities won't see their tuition increase next year.

Springfield police continue to investigate a report of a rape at a downtown nightclub late last week, but are coming up with little information, an investigator said.

Fan or foe, you should get ready to see a lot more of Sarah Palin over the next couple of weeks, including right here in the Ozarks.

Nixa police chief James Bacon found there was no criminal or civil violation, but says his officers did violate some internal policies during a September traffic stop.

More than 6,000 doses of swine flu vaccine have arrived in southwest Missouri's Greene County.