news-leader.com —  39+ min ago

...The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the girl, who was not named in the report, was swimming without a personal flotation device in a part of the... ...The girl was taken to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where she was treated in the pediatric intensive care unit.... ...In a separate incident Wednesday at Pomme de Terre Lake in Hickory County, a man from Houston, Missouri, also drowned.... ...Kessler was pronounced dead at Citizen's Memorial Hospital....

news-leader.com —  6+ hour, 44+ min ago

...While security at Park Central Square events is common, the Ozarks Pridefest has chosen to increase security measures this year, according to a June... ...spokeswoman Cora Scott -- Ozarks Pridefest will also have private security, volunteers and specialists monitoring social media sites for potential... ...Though the image in the Ozarks Pridefest post includes "Volunteer Greene County PD Officers" as a security measure, the off-duty officers who volunteer... ...According to Scott, some events at the square do not require special event permits....

news-leader.com —  20+ hour, 58+ min ago

...Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell announced his Democratic primary campaign for the U.S.... ...A former Ferguson city councilman, Bell centered his work around the 2014 protests in his hometown sparked by the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown... ...Louis County, Bell served as a judge, law professor and public defender before becoming a prosecutor.... ...Wesley was overwhelmingly re-elected last year. Growing up in North St. ...

news-leader.com —  6+ hour, 51+ min ago

...Springfield National Weather Service Meteorologist Jason Schaumann said the Ozarks may experience some haze in the air this week, but generally the... ...United States.... ...The National Weather Service will continue to monitor the situation.... ...The air quality in Springfield was considered "moderate," with an air quality ranking of 60 on Wednesday evening, per AirNow, the United States"...

news-leader.com —  7+ hour, 2+ min ago

...The Holocaust was the systemic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million European Jews by German dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime... ...The Missouri Board of Education received an update Tuesday on what steps the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Holocaust... ...to go along with the killings of Jews," said Dee Dee Simon, chair of the state's Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission, in a presentation... ...Simon also noted a number of Holocaust survivors settled in St. Louis, especially in University City....

news-leader.com —  6+ hour, 58+ min ago

...Joan Randall's mother Louise "Luise" Kink was one of 135 children aboard the Titanic the evening it sank on April 15, 1912....

news-leader.com —  7+ hour, 7+ min ago

...But on this special occasion, she loaded up with her mother and grandmother to watch the film featuring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck in a Milwaukee... ...Joan Randall doesn't remember the first time she learned about the Titanic, but she does recall her grandmother storming out of a movie theater halfway... ...She was with her parents, Anton and Luise Kink, and aunt and uncle, Maria and Vincenz Kink.... ...mother, Louise "Luise" Kink....

news-leader.com —  17+ hour, 13+ min ago

...County Circuit Clerk Bryan Feemster said.... ...Missouri Courts should have all non-violent marijuana misdemeanor cases expunged by the end of Thursday, but the Greene County Circuit Court still... ...The Greene County Circuit Court had to wait to start processing cases until February because that is when they received the appropriate funding,... ...A portion of this sales tax is distributed to government entities, like the Greene County Circuit Court, for carrying out responsibilities in the...

news-leader.com —  17+ hour, 13+ min ago

...June 15 on Ozarks Public Television.... ...A local history documentary “Generations: African American Experiences in Springfield and the Ozarks” will premiere at 8 p.m.... ...More:Missouri State's Ozarks Lesbian and Gay Archives celebrates 20 years of preservation Rachel Knight, OPt's general manager, agreed.... ...which has had immense effects on the development of our society and culture,” said Dax Bedell, assistant manager of production for OPT, in a news...