by admin | May 1, 2006 | Business
About 400 jobs paying $15-an-hour in Springfield are going away because telemarketing trends are changing. MCI is laying off most of the workers at its call center. A spokesman says more and more of those jobs are being sent to India and the Philippines. Increased use...
by admin | Apr 27, 2006 | News
They are the children adoption seems to have forgotten about. A photographic exhibit is touring Missouri to raise awareness of the foster children looking for a permanent home. About 2,000 of the approximately 10,000 children in Missouri’s foster care system...
by admin | Apr 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
A tree stump is believed to be the weapon used to beat a man to death this weekend in Springfield. The girlfriend of Clifton Clemons discovered his body in his home. An acquaintance of Newsom’s has been charged with second-degree murder. Police say they’re...
by admin | Mar 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
He wrote in his journal, “I begin my tour where other travellers have ended theirs, on the confines of the wilderness and at the last village of white inhabitants between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean….” He and another man began their...
by admin | Mar 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
The tornado and severe storms that ripped through southwest Missouri a week and a half ago did more extensive damage to the Springfield power plant than first thought. Officials with City Utilities of Springfield say damage to the coal-fired power plant could total as...
