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• 23rd annual Shop With A Cop scheduled November 15, 2018
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — The 23rd annual Missouri Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 43 Shop with a Cop will take place Saturday, December 8 at 9 am at the West Plains Walmart. Applications for the event are currently available at the West Plains Police Department, Willow Springs Police Department and Mountain View Police Department. Applicants […]
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• Man on trial for killing of abusive Missouri mother November 15, 2018
  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Wisconsin man plotted for more than a year to kill a Missouri mother who forced her daughter to pretend she was disabled. Nicholas Godejohn is on trial for the 2015 death of 48-year-old Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. His attorneys don’t dispute he fatally stabbed the woman, but they […]
  The Associated Press
• Arkansas governor’s budget includes teacher raises, tax cut November 15, 2018
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ governor is proposing a $5.7 billion budget for the coming year that sets aside money for raising the minimum salaries for public school teachers and for his tax cut plan. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday proposed increasing state spending in the fiscal year that begins July 1 by more […]
  The Associated Press
• Dr. Ryan Roberts joins OMC November 15, 2018
  WEST PLAINS, Mo. — Dr. Ryan Roberts recently joined Ozarks Medical Center as an anesthesiologist. Dr. Roberts has board certification in anesthesiology. He completed his medical degree at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR, and completed an internship and residency at University of Missouri at Kansas City. His undergraduate degree is […]
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• Springfield man sentenced to 38 years in meth conspiracy November 15, 2018
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield man who participated in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million of methamphetamine in Missouri has been sentenced to 38.4 years in prison without parole. Federal prosecutors say 29-year-old Michael Ryan Nevatt was sentenced Wednesday after being found guilty in April on seven charges involving the drug […]
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