On Friday, June 13, the FBI surprised Glen Moore with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Chris Crocker made the announcement at an FBI School Safety ...

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Officer Shell and Officer Mingus responded to Hubert Redburn for a report of an assault in progress. They later arrested a subject and transported them to the West Plains Jail for booking and placed ...

On April 9, a teen girl was sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old boy in Scott’s residence. The child told Willow Springs Police that Scott provided her with alcohol that she believes was drugged. She ...

When asked about the crash, she said, “the ditch came out of nowhere.” As Officer Turnbull approached the vehicle to secure it for towing, he noted a strong odor of marijuana. He observed two glass ...

A group of young students from Willow Springs were kept safe during the tornado events earlier this month thanks to the quick thinking of their bus driver. Willow Springs Head Start Driver Susan ...

East of West Plains, along US Highway 63, the tornado ripped the roof off of Bell's Body Shop, demolished a home, and destroyed part of Fiddlestick's Flea Market, ripping the roof from the building, ...

The law will subject any of the listed jurisdictions that attempts to regulate firearms to be liable to be sued to a civil penalty of $50,000 by any person who believes that a jurisdiction in which ...

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