Wright County News

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating the death of Loren Liles, a 50-year-old Hartville resident who was found dead at the Wright County Jail around 8:13 a.m. Thursday.

Part of a nursing home is severely damaged after a fire broke out in its medicine room on Wednesday night.

A fire that broke out on the square in Mountain Grove is under control, according to Dispatcher Paul Zieber of the Mountain Grove Police Department.

A Mountain Grove woman was taken to the Cox South hospital after a traffic crash in Wright County.

Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered that flags on state buildings in Wright County be flown at half-staff until Sunday to honor a soldier killed in Afghanistan.

A Mansfield man has been cast in a lead role in the musical "Beauty and The Beast" to be presented by The Performing Arts Council of the Ozarks beginning July 30 in the Cabool High School Gymnasium.

It appears that some of the best evidence to date that animal mutations locally are being conducted by 'bright lights in the sky' is now in the hands of investigators from the Mutual UFO Network .

This past Feb. 9 dawned damp and cold on a farm northeast of Norwood. But something strange happened the night to a beef cow owned by Gayland and June Jones.

Watch for slow-moving stripers today on state routes and ramps in the Springfield area.

Brady West and Donna West have been charged with animal abuse in Webster County in connection with dogs ultimately seized from a property in Wright County, prosecutors said.

WRIGHT COUNTY AUTHORITIES AND THE HUMANE SOCIETY SAY 72 DOGS AND A RABBIT, FOUND AT AN ALLEGED PUPPY MILL NEAR MANSFIELD HAD SOME SIGNS OF NEGLECT OR WEREN'T BEING PROPERLY CARED FOR.

The Humane Society of Missouri says dogs seized from a puppy mill in Mansfield showed signs of neglect.The Springfield News-Leader reports that investigators seized 72 dogs and one rabbit from the property Friday.

The Wright County Sheriff's Department and the Humane Society of Missouri seized about 80 dogs and one rabbit from a property north of Mansfield, Sheriff Glen Adler said late Friday.

I've talked to a woman who lives in Mansfield this past week who told me about experiences she's had in several western states encountering UFOs and even a short visit she had from an EBE.

Although we've yet to receive any reports of cattle mutilations in Webster County, a couple of recent macabre crimes in both Wright and Douglas counties have been brought to my attention.

Happy Fingers Quilters hope to ease families' loss in residential fires via hand-sewn, stuffed bears The American Red Cross received 104 new 'volunteers' last Monday, May 11, when the Happy Fingers Quilters of Hartville donated the hand-sewn, stuffed bears during the group's weekly meeting.

An Arkansas woman whose car overturned on U.S. 60 in Wright County Tuesday died in the crash, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Jefferson City, MO - Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan today announced the statewide winners of the Secretary's Poll Worker Awardsfor Excellence to those Missourians who deserve special recognition for their service during the 2008 elections.

A Hartville woman died yesterday from injuries she suffered after a Friday night after crashing her vehicle in Wright County, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

'What was it?' That was the question that two Seymour businessmen were left asking themselves after a recent encounter with a 'strange animal' south of town off Highway K. During a telephone interview with one of the two men this past week, the Citizen learned that the animal suddenly appeared in front of the two men as they were accompanying one ...