by admin | Mar 23, 2000 | Crime / Courts, Education
Security was tight today as Exeter students returned to class after an anonymous threat from a woman who told authorities her boyfriend was headed to the school with a shotgun. Barry County Sheriff Mick Epperly says his officers are searching phone records for...
by admin | Mar 23, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Some vandals have used heavy equipment to tear up the football stadium and track at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. A damage estimate is not available yet, but there’s damage to the football field turf and the track surface; a goal post has...
by admin | Mar 20, 2000 | News
Teamsters Union members are preparing for a strike against Associated Wholesale Grocers in Springfield. Negotiations are to resume Wednesday. Associated plans to contract with other companies to provide its warehouse workers and its transportation services instead of...
by admin | Mar 10, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Springfield man has been convicted of trying to run over a Highway Patrol trooper after a chase. But the jury refuses to convict Lloyd Sawyer of crashing his car into a patrol car while trying to get away from officers. Sawyer says he did not intend to hurt...
by admin | Mar 10, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A man who bounced a 45-thousand-dollar check used to buy a limousine has been put on probation for five years and ordered to cough up the money. Oklahoma resident Rick Zachery has pleaded guilty in Springfield to writing the bad check to the Springfield “Coach...
