Springfield News

About 80 percent of all women in the United States -- regardless of status, race or income -- start out breast-feeding, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Evangel University will open an art exhibition today featuring the works of Uncommon Threads, a group of 15 quilting artists from the Springfield area.

With help from a federal grant, the City of Springfield is moving ahead with plans to clean up a one-mile stretch of South Creek along Sunset Street on the city's west side.

Police say two men robbed a Springfield pharmacy last week and took more than 3,000 Xanax and hydrocodone pills.

When reader Debbie Dunn moved to the Ozarks from Colorado, she immediately noticed the abundance of chain restaurants.

The band's fourth album marks the return of original vocalist Craig Owens and original drummer Derrick Frost.

Police say a man was sitting in his truck outside a hospital on Tuesday afternoon when a stranger walked up and punched him in the face.

The police are asking the public for help in finding a missing person. Victor E. Riley, 51, was last seen March 5 near the 2700 block of North Broadway Avenue, according to a news release from the Springfield Police Department.

A Springfield woman pleaded guilty today to assaulting a federal agent with her car last year.

Jones will oversee many of Market Fresh's products and will be responsible for negotiating a competitive cost of goods and developing and maintaining relationships with growers, shippers, and vendors, according to a company news release.

Eleven days after capturing a state championship, the Lubbock Titans beat the Oklahoma City Storm 49-42 to win the Division 1-4A National Christian Home School Classification in Springfield, Missouri on Wednesday afternoon.

At the podium, Pam Holt, conducts the meeting announcing the launch of the Central Ozarks Regional DWI Task Force.

A Nevada, MO, man was charged in federal court with the sexual exploitation of a child after he assumed a false online identity as a woman and persuaded a teenage girl in Georgia to provide pornographic images of herself and to engage in illicit sexual activities.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Springfield's Dickerson Park Zoo has a number of birds of prey, including Cloud Dancer, a peregrine falcon.

PARAGON 360 of Springfield, MO, completed a beautiful and balanced design project at the iconic First Dallas Church with the help of 53 LED fixtures from CHAUVET Professional .

With a unanimous vote, Springfield City Council directed staff Monday night to study the rules governing group homes -- with particular attention toward the housing of multiple sex offenders.

One suspect is in custody after a bomb scare Monday in south Springfield. Residents in the 4400 block of South Reed Avenue found what they believed to be an improvised explosive device at their home around 2 p.m. According to Fire Marshal Bill Spence, a bomb squad found the device and "rendered it safe."

When covering a big story, we don't always have a chance to run down answers to every question asked around the newsroom.

Numbers show more new homes were built in Springfield last year than in any year since the bottom fell out of the economy, and industry experts expect that trend to continue.

Margaret Stafford is on the desk and can be reached at 800-852-4844 or 816-421-4844.