Seymour News

The Seymour Board of Aldermen selected its new five-person park board at the group's regular meeting last Thursday.

A benefit singing for Seymour's Joie Welker will be held this Saturday at the Gentry Church, located south of town on Highway K in northern Douglas County, just north of the Highway K and Highway 14 intersection.

Fordland Clinic has received a total of $325,000 in grant funding from the Missouri Foundation for Health and Community Foundation of the Ozarks to support "Healthy Roots Along Route 60" - a school and community gardening project in four towns along the U.S. 60 corridor.

OCC's K-9 Unit wants to be utilized, regardless of who is asking for help Imagine the terror you would feel as a parent if your toddler wandered off and you couldn't find them.

Arrests made by sheriff's department; 10 were home, others to receive summons A total of 22 convicted sex offenders who call Webster County home now are facing additional charges for not following state-required guidelines on Halloween night.

Applications available; due Nov. 19 The annual 'Share Your Christmas' project in the Seymour area has kicked off, with applications for the holiday-assistance program now available.

In Ava and surrounding Douglas County, residents called and the sheriff listened.

Four Amish bishops were charged Tuesday with not reporting a sexual crime against a child allegedly committed by a member of their community in southern Webster County.

Annual coat drive in Seymour distributes 160 coats and jackets The father who walked through the crisp fall air toward the community room at the Seymour Community Library had just one thought on his mind: Would he be able to find warm, winter coats for his nine children? Within a few minutes, volunteers Judy Lee and Diane Higgins from Harmony Free ...

Fannie J. Schwartz, 47, charged last week with two felony counts Fannie J. Schwartz, 47, a member of Seymour's Highway A Amish community, was charged this past Thursday with two counts of the Class C felony of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree, according to John Tyrrell, chief assistant prosecutor for Webster County Prosecuting ...

Kelly Brazeal, Mansfield High School Principal, was seriously injured in an automobile accident on August 8, 2009 near Mansfield.

Fact Finder has learned that many churches and community organizations are taking precautions against the flu.

There's a major disagreement in Webster County over how to punish a man charged with a sex crime against a child in the Amish community.

MDC's Austin: 'We know who the shooter was ... and we're very, very close to proving it' After nearly three weeks of investigation, Webster County Conservation Agent Jerry Austin said he and several other law-enforcement agencies are close to making an arrest of the alleged shooter of an adult black bear that was dumped late last month in the ...

A Webster County mother has been charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of her children because she allegedly knew her husband was sexually molesting her daughters, now ages 15 and 16, according to a probable cause statement filed with the case.

Since the program was started early in September, donations to the Seymour YMCA's 'Let's Take A Bite Out Of The Pool's Mortgage' initiative have topped $7,000. In fact, the total given to the program now stands at nearly $7,400. 'The support and generosity to this drive to help retire the debt of the indoor pool has been phenomenal,' said Patti ...

Event held at the Seymour High School gym; set from 6 to 10 p.m. The Teens For Christ Youth Rally again is coming to Seymour, with the event set from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday night, Oct.

The Seymour Area Arts Council will hold its annual photography show on Oct. 24 and Oct.

A trio of Seymour women each sustained minor injuries and were taken to a Springfield hospital early Saturday afternoon after a two-vehicle accident on U.S. 60, two miles east of Springfield at the Farm Road 205 intersection.

Conservation agents and Webster County sheriff's deputies are looking into dozens of tips after someone found a dead black bear between Diggins and Seymour.