by admin | Dec 22, 2003 | Education
Southwest Missouri State University has decided to let free speech take place on almost any part of the campus. The school had been facing lawsuits from students challenging the university’s restrictions on demonstrations and rallies to one location. The policy...
by admin | Dec 16, 2003 | Sports Features
Springfield has been picked as the site for an Olympic Youth Development program. The program finds and trains youngsters who might later be invited to higher level Olympic training programs. Springfield’s training will focus on weightlifting and tennis....
by admin | Nov 10, 2003 | Politics / Govt
Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark has told a Springfield audience that President George W. Bush has pushed policies that are “reckless” and “radical,” in “making a mess of this country.” It’s Clark’s first...
by admin | Sep 17, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A man under death sentence in Texas is charged with murdering a 13-year-old girl in Springfield. Inmate Tommy Lynn Sells is charged with strangling Stephanie Mahaney in 1997. The girl’s body was found in a pond a month after she disappeared. Sells had told a...
by admin | Sep 11, 2003 | Crime / Courts
All charges have been dropped against a Springfield nurse charged with failure to report child abuse in the Dominic James case. Her lawyer says a circuit judge has ruled the state law on which the charges were based is unconstitutional. The Greene County prosecutor...
