Willard News

It could be "TGIT" as in "Thank God It's Thursday" for Miami city employees if the Miami City Council approves a proposal to shut down City Hall on Fridays.

New area road jobs due this week include: - Grinding causes one-lane traffic on U.S. 160, Springfield to Willard, after 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The little news story in Tuesday's paper deserves more attention. It told how the Greene County Sheriff's Department recently caught some young school vandals through the use of video cameras.

An inmate work crew found something unusual in a creek bed in northern Greene County this morning - a pipe bomb.

Airport police, the Greene County Sheriff's Department and Willard fire and rescue crews were out around the Firefall area searching for a missing endangered adult.

The Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confiscated a pipe bomb.

A stubborn fire in a house near Willard kept firefighters from two rural departments busy for more than four hours overnight.

A Springfield couple say they're lucky to walk away without injury after lightning struck the roof of their duplex.

Truman State University student Alex Henderson of Willard has been awarded a $500 scholarship from the Truman State University Foundation for 2008-09. Henderson is the son of Roger and Ann Henderson and ...

The state fire marshal is trying to determine what sparked a house fire southeast of Willard Friday morning.

A man will be airlifted to a nearby hospital after crashing his motorcycle just north of the McDonald's on Hunt Road in Willard.

A 35-year-old Willard man was airlifted to a nearby hospital this morning after sustaining a possible head injury after crashing his motorcycle just north of the McDonald's on Hunt Road in Willard.

Chris Oldenburg received the Computer Information Systems Department Scholarship from Missouri State University.

Lightning strikes triggered fire calls Friday morning to two addresses in Joplin and two more in Carthage.

Jim Morris, public information director for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, is right when he says, "Americans have a mania about lists and rankings." School officials hate rankings, for ...

Storm water runoff has prompted the closing of sections of two Greene County roads, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

Greene County Farm Road 140 closes for two months beginning Monday. The road will be widened to three lanes between Rocklyn and Farm Road 115 in the Willard and Republic areas.

The Wire Road Wranglers 4-H Club from Crane is hosting a multi-family garage sale on Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31 at Town and Country RV, 2350 W. Sunshine, Springfield, Mo.

Ozarks Technical Community College Tech Prep student Andrew L. Neil has been named one of the Missouri Tech Prep Students of the Year, the college announced in a news release.

School: Willard High School Plans: Study microbiology and immunology at Virginia Tech Accomplishments: Founded and maintained a plastic recycling program in each classroom in high school; vice president of ...