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Park Board Continues Holiday Celebrations
The Springfield-Greene County Park Board continues celebrating the holidays throughout December with a variety of events and opportunities, including: Christmas Tree Sale — Now open at Rutledge-Wilson Farm Park, More...
Homicide Investigation Update: 3500 S. National
Springfield Police detectives continue the investigation into the homicide which occurred at 3500 S. National on 12/12/12. Two suspects have been arrested in connection to the homicide. They are Darian E. Hall, More...
A Cappella Christmas Concert
Ozark Showcase and Sho-Me Statesmen Choruses invite you to enjoy a Free Christmas Concert presented in glorious a cappella barbershop-style harmony. Location Wesley United Methodist Church 922 W. Republic More...
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays Saturday, December 15, 2012 Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts • 525 S. John Q. Hammons Parkway Pre-Concert Music 7:00 p.m. Concert 7:30 p.m Christmas! Carols! Candy Canes! This More...
First Night Springfield 2013
Own the Night December 31, 2012 5:30pm – Midnight Join us as we ring in the new year at First Night Springfield 2013 presented by Phoenix Home Care. First Night is a family-friendly New Year’s More...
Sugar Plum Soiree
Join Springfield Ballet the night before the opening of everyone’s holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, for the Sugar Plum Soiree. Guests at this special event will enjoy a glitzy holiday soiree before heading More...
Arts and Culture Round Table
Tuesday, December 18 3:30pm – 5:30pm Juanita K. Hammons Hall All arts administrators, non profit education, and for profit sectors are invited to attend this great networking opportunity. Enjoy refreshments More...
Green Building Task Force Works for Balanced Approach
The Springfield Greene County Green Building Task Force held its monthly meeting Dec. 12. The group continues work toward finding balanced solutions for green building construction practices appropriate for the More...
Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey
ROBERT BURNS,AP National Security Writer INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AP) — The U.S. will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory More...
‘Cliff’ crash may clear way for deal in January
CHARLES BABINGTON,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To get to “yes” on a “fiscal cliff” accord, Congress and the White House first might have to get to “no.” That is, an impasse More...
Kerry, Hagel front-runners to lead State, Defense
DONNA CASSATA,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who unsuccessfully sought the presidency in 2004 and has pined for the job of top diplomat, vaulted to the head of President Barack More...
Fiscal cliff splits big, small businesses on taxes
JIM KUHNHENN,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The “fiscal cliff” debate is splitting the business community over taxes, driving a wedge between two natural Republican allies: the nation’s More...
Time for states to decide on health care exchanges
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nineteen states have turned down the Obama administration’s invitation to run the new health insurance markets that will begin serving millions More...
California in for more unusually high ‘king tides’
GILLIAN FLACCUS,Associated Press LISA LEFF,Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The tide is high, and it’s holding on. Some Californians were in for another day of ankle-deep seawater in low-lying More...
SKorea says Samsung chip plant caused cancer
YOUKYUNG LEE,AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean government agency said Friday that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this More...
Federal judges sue to win promised pay increases
JESSE J. HOLLAND,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the nation teetering on an economic “fiscal cliff,” federal judges may soon force Congress to dedicate possibly millions of dollars to what More...
Injury dashed mall shooter’s hope of being Marine
RACHEL LA CORTE,Associated Press STEVEN DUBOIS,Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — His mother died before he was 3 years old, and he was estranged from the aunt who raised him. His dream of becoming a Marine More...
Transgender college hoops player keeps head high
LISA LEFF,Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The women’s basketball team at Mission College expected the bleachers to be full and the hecklers ready when its newest player made her home court debut. In More...
UK police say they won’t charge hacker
LONDON (AP) — British authorities opted Friday not to charge a computer hacker who waged a decade-long struggle to avoid trial in the U.S. for breaking into military computers. Gary McKinnon, who has been diagnosed More...
Swedish Christmas goat engulfed in flames _ again
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Not even a layer of ice was enough to keep three people from torching the giant straw goat in a Swedish town where the annual challenge of charring it to the ground has become an unusual Christmas More...
Egyptian protesters clash over draft charter
MAGGIE MICHAEL,Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian Islamists have clashed with opponents of a draft constitution in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after an ultraconservative cleric called on worshippers More...
Era ends at Guantanamo as last 2 Cubans retire
BEN FOX,Associated Press SUZETTE LABOY,Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — One of the world’s most unusual commutes is coming to an end. For more than a half century, Luis La Rosa and More...
North Korea rocket launch shows young leader as gambler
JEAN H. LEE,Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A triumphant North Korea staged a mass rally of soldiers and civilians Friday to glorify the country’s young ruler, who took a big gamble this More...
Fewer health care options for illegal immigrants
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN,Associated Press RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press ALAMO, Texas (AP) — For years, Sonia Limas would drag her daughters to the emergency room whenever they fell sick. As an illegal immigrant, More...
Russia backtracks on statement about Assad’s fall
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV,Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia issued a clumsy denial Friday of a statement from its point man on Syria, who said a day earlier that Syrian President Bashar Assad is losing control More...
U.N telecom chief ‘surprised’ by US-led treaty snub
BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Envoys from nearly 90 nations signed Friday the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty since the Internet age, but the U.S. and other Western More...
ECB: Crisis eases, “no room for complacency”
DAVID McHUGH,AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank officials say there is “no room for complacency” even though stresses from the debt crisis have eased on banks and financial More...
Narrow ‘fiscal cliff’ bargain gains currency
ANDREW TAYLOR,Associated Press JIM KUHNHENN,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes dimming for a wide-ranging bargain, the White House and many congressional Republicans are setting their sights on a more modest More...
“Book Givers” Sought to Spread Love of Reading On World Book Night U.S. 2013 with the Library
December 6, 2012 — Would you like to spread some joy by giving away books to complete strangers – people who may never have owned a book of their own? World Book Night 2013 will make it possible, at no cost More...
Naming ceremony to be held in honor of J. Howard and Jan Fisk at OTC Lebanon Center
Ozarks Technical Community College will hold a ceremony Thursday, December 13, to recognize Lebanon natives J. Howard and Jan Fisk with the naming of the J. Howard and Jan Fisk Conference Room. The event will begin More...
Homeowners Tricked into Overpaying for Their Deed
Homeowners nationwide are receiving letters asking them to pay upwards of $80 to obtain a certified copy of their property deed. What the mailings don’t mention is that deeds are available from the county More...
Homicide Investigation Update: 3500 S. National
On 12/12/12 around 5:45 p.m., officers responded to 3500 S. National for reports of gunshots in the area. When officers arrived, they located a male at the location with what appeared to be injuries from gunshot More...
Springfield Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” Tickets Sold Out, Few Options Left to See the Holiday Favorite
Springfield, Missouri – December 12, 2012 – For the 27th year in a row, a holiday tradition will come alive in the Ozarks as Springfield Ballet presents the perennial family favorite, The Nutcracker. For More...
APNewsBreak: Colo gov says time to talk gun laws
IVAN MORENO,Associated Press KRISTEN WYATT,Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Gov. John Hickenlooper said “the time is right” for state lawmakers to consider gun control measures, More...
US warns of treaty snub over Internet rules
BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The chief American delegate at a U.N. conference weighing possible Internet rules says the U.S. may snub the final document over proposals More...
Man shoots himself inside Ala. federal courthouse
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a worker who killed himself inside an Alabama federal courthouse went through an employee entrance to avoid a security check that could have caught the gun. The U.S. Marshals More...
Huge DNA code of the Christmas tree being revealed
MALCOLM RITTER,AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it’s a monster. We’re More...
Twin NASA spacecraft prepare to crash into moon
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The moon is about to take another hit. Twin NASA spacecraft are preparing to crash into the lunar surface next week after a successful mission mapping the moon’s gravity. Scientists say More...
Top Democrats
ANDREW TAYLOR,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Barack Obama’s Senate allies said Thursday the White House has assured him the president won’t yield to GOP demands to increase More...
Karzai says he’ll meet with Obama in Washington
ROBERT BURNS,AP National Security Writer KABUL (AP) — President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he will meet President Barack Obama in Washington next month to discuss a postwar U.S. role in his country, whose More...
Hamas stages first West Bank march since 2007
MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH,Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — The Islamic militant group Hamas staged on Thursday its first public demonstration in the West Bank since 2007, illustrating its improving ties More...
Afghan suicide bomber kills US soldier, 2 Afghans
MIRWAIS KHAN,Associated Press KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide car bomber killed one American soldier and two Afghan civilians Thursday near a U.S. military base shortly after the visiting More...
European court condemns CIA in landmark ruling
ANGELA CHARLTON,Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A European court issued a landmark ruling Thursday that condemned the CIA’s so-called extraordinary renditions programs and bolstered those who say they More...
Russia positions itself for fall of Syrian regime
ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY,Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s most powerful ally and protector, Russia, began positioning itself Thursday for the fall of President Bashar Assad, saying for the first More...
Dozens sue pharmacy, but compensation uncertain
KRISTIN M. HALL,Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dennis O’Brien rubs his head as he details ailments triggered by the fungal meningitis he developed after a series of steroid shots in his More...
Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker
MARIA CHENG,AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities More...
EU backs banking supervisor, Greece bailout
DON MELVIN,Associated Press RAF CASERT,Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In one whirlwind morning, the European Union nations agreed Thursday to two key measures vital to the financial security of the region. More...
Stocks lower as investors watch Washington
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped Thursday on Wall Street after more signs of tension emerged from federal budget talks in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 70 points at 13,174 just after 1 p.m. More...
FDA review of tobacco products grinds to a halt
MICHAEL FELBERBAUM,AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Talk about a smoke break. Tobacco companies have introduced almost no new cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products in the U.S. in more than 18 More...
Inquest: Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging
JILL LAWLESS,Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An inquest into the apparent suicide of a nurse duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge heard Thursday that she was found hanging More...
Report: Jackie Chan suggests Hong Kong curb rights
KELVIN CHAN,Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Jackie Chan suggests in a recent interview that protests should be restricted in the freewheeling Chinese city of Hong Kong. The action star lamented that Hong Kong More...
Dozens sue pharmacy, but compensation uncertain
KRISTIN M. HALL,Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dennis O’Brien rubs his head as he details ailments triggered by the fungal meningitis he developed after a series of steroid shots in his neck: More...
Google Maps return to iPhone with new mobile app
MICHAEL LIEDTKE,AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone. The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release More...
Salmon fishing where? Globes snubs and surprises
JAKE COYLE,AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is known for what you could call a certain quirkiness in its selection process. Any group that would see fit to More...
Anti-virus software developer McAfee arrives in US
CURT ANDERSON,Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Anti-virus software founder John McAfee arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday night after being deported from Guatemala, where he had sought to evade police questioning in More...
10 arrested in international cybercrime ring
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten people have been arrested as part of an investigation into international cybercrime rings that steal millions of computer users’ credit card, bank account and other personal information, More...
Mourners gather at funeral for Chiefs’ Belcher
RACHEL COHEN,AP Sports Writer DIX HILLS, N.Y. (AP) — Jovan Belcher was remembered Wednesday for the accomplishments of a life that ended so suddenly and violently. Several hundred mourners gathered for the Kansas More...
US retail sales rose 0.3 percent in November
MARTIN CRUTSINGER,AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans spent more online in November to start the holiday season and began to replace cars and rebuild in the Northeast after Superstorm Sandy. U.S. More...
Cheaper gas drives down US wholesale price index
CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER,AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheaper gas drove down a measure of wholesale prices in November for the second straight month, a sign inflation remains mild. The producer price index More...
EU backs banking supervisor, Greece bailout
DON MELVIN,Associated Press RAF CASERT,Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In one whirlwind morning, the European Union nations agreed on the foundation of a fully fledged banking union and Greece’s euro partners More...
Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans in the country by an additional six months, the government announced — a move likely to ease fears of Afghans living there that More...
Lawyer: Poisoned spy was working for UK’s MI6
SYLVIA HUI,Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was a “registered and paid” agent working for Britain’s foreign intelligence agency when he died after being mysteriously More...
Carter Center says it won’t monitor Egypt’s vote
CAIRO (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s center says it will not deploy monitors for the referendum on draft constitution because of the government’s late release of regulations for witnesses. The More...
Israeli FM charged with breach of trust
AMY TEIBEL,Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s powerful foreign minister was charged Thursday with breach of trust, but escaped more serious charges in a fraud and money-laundering case that could More...
Leading conservative says Obama will win tax fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading conservative who’s resigning from the Senate is predicting that President Barack Obama will win the battle over raising taxes. South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint calls it “a More...
Senate legislation targets cyberstalking software
RICHARD LARDNER,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For around $50, a jealous wife or husband can download software that can continuously track the whereabouts of a spouse better than any private detective. It’s More...
Google Maps return to iPhone with new mobile app
MICHAEL LIEDTKE,AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone. The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the More...
German real estate booms as people seek security
DAVID RISING,Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Buying a home in Berlin is widely viewed as one of the safest investments a German, or any European, can make. That is why some real-estate experts are worried the More...
Crime, Osprey add to Okinawan anger over US bases
YURI KAGEYAMA,Associated Press OKINAWA, Japan (AP) — For nearly 70 years, Okinawa has gotten more than its share of America’s military — more jets rattling homes, more crimes rattling nerves. It’s More...
Election over, administration unleashes new rules
MATTHEW DALY,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While the “fiscal cliff” of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republicans and business groups More...
McAfee in Miami after deportation from Guatemala
CURT ANDERSON,Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Anti-virus software founder John McAfee was holed up in a Miami hotel after weeks of evading Belizean authorities who want to question him in a homicide. Shortly after More...
UN group gives nod for greater Internet oversight
BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.N. conference weighing possible Internet rules shifted into a high-stakes showdown on Thursday after advancing a proposal for greater government More...
North Korea still years away from credible missiles
FOSTER KLUG,Associated Press MATTHEW PENNINGTON,Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After 14 years of painstaking labor, North Korea finally has a rocket that can put a satellite in orbit. But that doesn’t More...
‘Fiscal cliff’ talks vexing official Washington
ANDREW TAYLOR,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks after President Barack Obama won re-election and gained more leverage to make GOP conservatives bend on taxes, the new balance of power is proving vexing More...
Europe seeks to make progress on banking union
RAF CASERT,Associated Press SARAH DiLORENZO,Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union finance ministers moved closer Wednesday to creating a single supervisor for their banks after France and Germany patched More...
Iran says it can make copy of captured CIA drone
ALI AKBAR DAREINI,Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is now capable of manufacturing its own copies of an advanced CIA spy drone captured last year, a senior Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday. Avaz Heidarpour, More...
Court ruling on Ill. gun ban sets stage for fight
DON BABWIN,Associated Press SARA BURNETT,Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Backers of Illinois’ ban on concealed weapons vowed Wednesday to fight for continued controls on gun possession, a day after a federal More...
Cheese first made at least 7,500 years ago
MARIA CHENG,Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Little Miss Muffet could have been separating her curds and whey 7,500 years ago, according to a new study that finds the earliest solid evidence of cheese-making. Scientists More...
Census: Whites no longer a majority in US by 2043
HOPE YEN,Associated Press WASHINGTON( AP) — White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That’s part of a historic shift that already is reshaping More...
Official: Syria fires Scud missiles at rebels
ROBERT BURNS,AP National Security Writer KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Syrian government forces have fired Scud missiles at insurgents in recent days, escalating the 2-year-old conflict against rebels seeking to overthrow More...
Argentines shocked by verdicts in sex slave trial
EMILY SCHMALL,Associated Press MICHAEL WARREN,Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The acquittal of 13 people accused in the disappearance of a young woman who was allegedly kidnapped and forced into More...
North Korea hails launch despite risk of consequences
Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea, though struggling to feed its people, is now one of the few countries to have successfully launched a satellite into space from its own soil. But leaders More...
Honduran congress dismisses Supreme Court justices
ALBERTO ARCE,Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ political standoff escalated Wednesday as legal officials debated whether a congressional vote to remove four Supreme Court justices violated More...
Prosecutors appeal anti-paparazzi charge dismissal
ANTHONY McCARTNEY,AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors Wednesday appealed the dismissal of anti-paparazzi driving charges against a photographer accused of recklessly chasing Justin Bieber on More...
Judge revokes Lohan’s probation, sets hearing date
DERRIK J. LANG,AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge revoked Lindsay Lohan’s probation on Wednesday and scheduled a hearing that could result in more jail time for the closely watched “Liz More...
UK police: Jimmy Savile is suspect in 199 crimes
SYLVIA HUI,Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile is a suspect in 199 crimes recorded so far, including dozens of cases of rape, British police said Wednesday. They described the More...
Far from the Shire, a Hobbit house in Pa. country
JOANN LOVIGLIO,Associated Press CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (AP) — Worlds away from the Shire, a stone cottage tucked into the Pennsylvania countryside would make Bilbo Baggins feel like he was back home with his Hobbit More...
Fed projects high unemployment for next 3 years
MARTIN CRUTSINGER,AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve projects the unemployment rate will stay elevated until late 2015, suggesting it will keep short-term interest rates low for the next More...
Japan election puts spotlight on reviving economy
ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — It’s the $6 trillion question: how to jolt Japan out of its 20-year economic slump. The dozen or so parties vying in a Dec. 16 parliamentary election More...
Asia stocks up as Japan gets boost from weaker yen
PAMELA SAMPSON,AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Thursday with the help of Japan’s Nikkei 225, which was propelled higher by a weakening yen. A new bond-buying program by More...
Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion
JOHN RABY,Associated Press VICKI SMITH,Associated Press SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as More...
Senator: Rock removal on Mississippi to start soon
JIM SALTER,Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Crews might be allowed to begin destroying two rock pinnacles impeding barge traffic on the Mississippi River as early as next week, more than a month ahead More...
Western water report draws prerelease critics
KEN RITTER,Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rising demand and falling supply are spurring talk in the arid West of outside-the-box ideas including piping in water from the nation’s heartland and More...
Ex-megachurch worker gets 55-year-prison term
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS,Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former janitor at a Tulsa megachurch was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in prison for sex crimes against three girls in a scandal that has ensnared More...
Sick girl who left Phoenix hospital appears safe
PHOENIX (AP) — An 11-year-old leukemia patient whose whereabouts have been unclear since her mother unexpectedly took her from a Phoenix hospital last month appeared to be safe and cared for, according to an More...
Leading Democrat calls foreign aid system outmoded
DONNA CASSATA,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union was the Cold War threat, Ian Fleming’s creation James Bond was headed to the screen as Sean Connery in “Dr. No” and the More...
Police: Ore. mall shooter used stolen rifle
JONATHAN J. COOPER,Associated Press RACHEL LA CORTE,Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The gunman who killed two people and himself in a shooting rampage at an Oregon mall was 22 years old and used More...
NOAA chief says she will leave in February
MALCOLM RITTER,AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who led the federal government’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she will leave her post at the end More...
‘Purple tunnel of doom’ to be closed for inaugural
NEDRA PICKLER,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Inaugural security teams are trying to prevent another “purple tunnel of doom” from President Barack Obama’s first swearing-in. The head More...
THE RESET: Fed forges ahead with easy-money policy
TOM RAUM,Associated Press As President Barack Obama and Congress agonize over strengthening the economy without fattening the $16 trillion national debt, the Federal Reserve chugs steadily along on its own More...
