Greene County News

Greene County authorities have seized the pit bull mix neighbors say killed and injured dogs in their neighborhood Tuesday, and will present a case to the prosecutor that the animal has been abused, said Capt.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will start enforcing water well reporting rules, DNR chief Mark Templeton said Friday.

A Bois D'Arc man died Friday night when he was hit by a car while walking on a Greene County highway, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

With the economy still sagging and sales tax revenues down 10 percent, Greene County officials are bracing for another tight budget in 2010.

Greene County Presiding Commissioner Dave Coonrod will present the annual State of the County address to the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce at 7:45 a.m. Thursday at the Greene County Highway Department, 2065 N. Clifton Ave.

Greene County sheriff's deputies told a woman who lives just outside the Springfield city limits to get rid of a pit bull or be served with a court order seizing the dog.

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Story Published: Nov 3, 2009 at 11:43 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 3, 2009 at 11:56 PM CST Voters in a number of Missouri counties went to the polls on Tuesday to decide financial issues in cities, counties and school districts.

You might call it the front line in the battle of a growing county: homes on one side, farms on the other and a county commission in the middle trying to make sense of it all.

Shall the school district of Springfield R-12, Springfield, Missouri, issue its general obligation bonds in the amount of $50 million, a portion of which would include qualified school construction bonds to be issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , for the purpose of 1) air conditioning school buildings, 2) making ...

As Springfield goes, so goes the entire community. This phrase is on our minds as we anticipate the results of Springfield's Nov.

Columbia -- Jeffrey Bolden simply lowered his head as a Boone County jury found him guilty Wednesday of second-degree murder and the second-degree assault of emergency personnel.

Four local agencies in Missouri are to receive $2.3 million in grants to help pay for monitoring air pollution levels.

Crime Stoppers is asking for help locating Johnnie Young. Young is wanted in Greene County on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

They arrived by bus, by car and on foot. On a chilly Saturday morning, they lined the sidewalk across from Reed Middle School, waiting for the 10 a.m. opening.

The Springfield-Greene County Health department will drop off folders of information to churches across the county on Thursday.

Two Christian County residents pleaded guilty in federal court this week involving two separate cases of shipping methamphetamine.

A federal judge has rejected a Springfield woman's claim that her monkey was a service animal and that she was disabled.

A man from Clever, pleaded guilty in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in Greene and Christian counties, as well as to his role in a money-laundering conspiracy.

The voting location for voters in !st North Campbell Township is changing, according to the Greene County Clerk's office.

A federal grand jury indicted the Christian County assessor for failing to report taxable property.