Hickory County News

This morning's storms are adding roads to the list of roads that have been closed since Monday because of flooding from thunderstorms, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

There have been reports of street flooding in Springfield, including Bennett Street east of Parkview High School and at Commercial Street and Glenstone Avenue and Commercial Street and National Avenue, according to the National Weather Service.

The Missouri Department of Transportation has added roads in Polk and Hickory counties to roads closed by high water this morning.

Storm damage to utility lines has forced the closure of a county road near U.S. 54 in Hickory County east of Preston, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

I am looking for information re Mary Francis Stanley , born about 1853 in Missouri, married to William Kissee in 1869, lived in Hickory County, MO in 1870 and Lafayette County, MO in 1880.

Ozarks Food Harvest is responding to a nationwide report indicating Missouri children experience the fifth-highest rate of hunger by increasing its children's feeding programs.

Interstate 44 on the southeast side of Lebanon has been closed in both directions because of flooding, according to the Missouri Highway Department.

A 74-year-old man is missing after his fishing boat capsized on Pomme de Terre. Friday afternoon, Durward Beyer was fishing with two family members roughly a mile below Rough Hollow Bridge.

Sometimes being right is no fun, as Missouri turkey biologist Tom Dailey knows. Dailey, a resource scientist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, predicted the 2009 spring turkey harvest would be substantially lower than last year.

Friday is the deadline to sign up for a free basic gardening class sponsored by the Christian County Master Gardeners to be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Community Center.

The Hickory County Health Department and other community groups will hold a five-kilometer run and fun walks on April 25 to celebrate the completion of the Healthy Active Community Trail near Hermitage.

Missouri recently named three Ozarks Elementary schools as some of the state's a oeGold Star Schools.a Among 15 schools in the entire state honored, Hickory County School District's Skyline Elementary in Urbana.

The National Weather Service has added a tornado warning for east central St. Clair County, northern Hickory County and southwestern Benton County until 11:15 a.m. Radar showed a tornado located eight miles west of Weaubleau moving northeast at 45 miles an hour.

Fourteen people, including four from Colorado Springs, Colo., died in crashes on Missouri highways over the weekend.The four people from Colorado died in a fiery crash about 4:25 p.m. Sunday along U.S. 60, just east of Missouri 17 in Howell County.According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, they were identified as Christopher J. Calegar, 10, Deborah ...

THE HIGHWAY PATROL SAYS 40-YEAR-OLD BARTLEY WILLIAMS OF WEAUBLEAU DIED SATURDAY AT A SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL, ABOUT EIGHT HOURS AFTER THE PICKUP HE WAS RIDING IN WENT OFF HICKORY COUNTY ROAD 350, THREE MILES SOUTH ...

Two southwest Missouri men have died in two separate single-vehicle crashes. The first happened in Hickory County close to 8 p.m. Friday.

A Weaubleau man died of injuries and two other people were hurt Friday night in a single-vehicle crash on a Hickory County road, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Whether hard times, desperation or all-seasons greed drove a middle-age man to stick a gun in bank manager Sharon McMillin’s face is anyone’s guess.But what happened later has people in Hickory ...

Bank clerks and law officers believe a man who tried to rob the Sun Security Bank on Monday morning is the same man who robbed the bank two weeks ago.

A woman from Pittsburg, Mo., was taken to the hospital Wednesday after a crash in Hickory County.