localozarks

This user hasn't shared any profile information

By localozarks On Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
0 Comments

tropical storm Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast budgets help for victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and floods before they occur

WASHINGTON (AP) — As tropical storm Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast, there should be plenty of money — some $1.5 billion — in federal disaster aid coffers, thanks, in part, to a new system that budgets More...

springfield mo City Council
By localozarks On Monday, August 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Springfield Missouri City Council Meeting update 8/27/2012

[schema type="organization" orgtype="Organization" url="http://www.springfieldmo.gov/citycouncil/" name="Springfield Missouri City Council " description="Springfield City government is based on the Council/Manager More...

Mitt Romney, Ann Romney
By localozarks On Monday, August 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Mitt Romney on FOX “The fallout over Akin’s remarks “hurts our party”

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mitt Romney’s Republican National Convention sputters to life Monday with the lonely banging of a gavel in a mostly empty hall, then hits full speed on Tuesday, just as forecasters say More...

Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan
By localozarks On Monday, August 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Fight for women’s vote defines presidential race

ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — A nation at war, crippling joblessness and a looming budget standoff that could wreck the economy have been overshadowed in recent days by an issue that polls show doesn’t even crack More...

Dennis Stoddard
By localozarks On Monday, August 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Republicans shuffle schedule as Isaac threaten

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republicans will formally bestow their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney on Tuesday night, one day later than planned, officials announced Sunday as they revised the schedule for a national More...

John Popper
By localozarks On Monday, August 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Ron Paul says his backers will ‘become the GOP tent’

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rep. Ron Paul, the plucky GOP presidential candidate yet to get fully behind Mitt Romney, lashed out Sunday at Republican efforts to marginalize his supporters at the upcoming party convention, More...

Google Internet approaches Missouri
By localozarks On Friday, July 27th, 2012
0 Comments

MIssouri Residence brace as Google offers KC ultra-fast Internet “gigabit” Internet service

  The Google Fiber superfast broadband network will offer one-gigabyte per second speeds MARIA FISHER,Associated Press PETER SVENSSON,Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Google Inc. revealed Thursday More...

Drought Painted Lawns
By localozarks On Friday, July 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Missouri Turf Paint Inc. “Called to duty” Turf painting spreads as drought ravages lawn

  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When this summer’s drought turned her prized lawn brown, Terri LoPrimo fought back, but not with sprinklers: She had it painted green, making her suddenly lush-appearing yard More...

Missouri walmart Bomb threats
By localozarks On Friday, July 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Bomb threats force evacuations at six Missouri Walmart stores

  Springfield, MO-Authorities are investigating after reports of at least six Walmart locations receiving bomb threats Friday evening. Raytown Police say the Walmart at 103000 Missouri 350 Highway received More...

Romney 2012
By localozarks On Friday, July 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Romney struggles to stem his own Olympics fallout “Mitt the Twit”

Caption   With the headline “Mitt the Twit”, The Sun newspaper criticizes comments regarding the London Olympics made by Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, More...

By localozarks On Friday, July 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Facebook shares sink to new low after 2Q results

    BARBARA ORTUTAY,AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s stock hit a new low Friday after it reported lukewarm second-quarter results and didn’t give an outlook for the coming More...

Eric Schmidt
By localozarks On Friday, July 27th, 2012
0 Comments

Google: Didn’t delete Street View data after all

Caption   Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt looks on during a reception, hosted by Britain’s Prince Charles, at Clarence House in London for the delegates of the Global Investment Conference, More...

Shelby GT 500
By localozarks On Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
0 Comments

Shelby GT500 By Retrobuilt

      If you want the look of a classic Mustang with all the amenities of a modern pony car, then look no further than Retrobuilt. A couple years ago the Missouri-based company released their 1969 More...

bear
By localozarks On Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
0 Comments

2nd bear seen at Pa. mall where another got stuck

  Eds: APNewsNow. Minor edits. 2nd bear seen at Pa. mall where another got stuck PITTSBURGH (AP) — Officials say a second bear has been spotted at a suburban Pittsburgh mall where another bear was captured More...

Assad's Syria by Joel Thornhill, cartoonist
By localozarks On Monday, July 23rd, 2012
0 Comments

Destruction and war come to Damascus, Cartoon by Joel Thornhill

    CAPTION Joel Thornhill LocalOzarks.com Political Cartoonist BASSEM MROUE,Associated Press ZEINA KARAM,Associated Press MASNAA, Lebanon (AP) — After a bloody, weeklong siege in the Syrian capital, More...

Terlingua Mustang Hammons Field Springfield Missouri
By localozarks On Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
0 Comments

Terlingua Mustang Retrobuilt Motors Springfield Missouri

  Brandon James Local Ozarks Contributor If you spent any time downtown last week you may have seen this car driving around – its a  high performance head-turner, and is made right here in the local More...

richardsonjumpstarter.com
By localozarks On Sunday, July 15th, 2012
0 Comments

Richardson JumpStarters

              The Scientific Jumpstarter Company JumpStarters are all we do! Many great ideas that have shaped Richardson’s growth over 26 years have come from our customers. More...

Springfield Missouri Landscaping
By localozarks On Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
0 Comments

Accent Curbz Springfield Missouri Landscaping 417.429.8898

Local Ozarks is proud to welcome our newest sponsor Accent Curbz your local Springfield, Missouri Landscapers Each day we will be introducing to Springfield Missouri a locally owned companies that stand our as More...

LocalOzarks news Group
By localozarks On Friday, May 18th, 2012
0 Comments

Local Ozarks News Group Springfield Missouri

  JOIN LOCAL OZARKS TODAY! LocalOzarks.com (newly formed local Ozarks News Company) Local Ozarks provides a platform to the public that is professionally developed and maintained combining a local staff and More...

plunger431x300
By localozarks On Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
0 Comments

The Toilet Plunger Bandit caught on video

Man Allegedly Tries to Rob Three Banks Armed With a Plunger UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) – A Utica man faces felony charges. Police say he attempted to rob three different banks armed with a toilet plunger. Surveillance More...

Dentists Dr Ukena Dr. Kufahl
By localozarks On Thursday, March 15th, 2012
0 Comments

Springfield Missouri Best Dentist Award! Dr. David Ukena D.D.S Dr. Matthew Kufahl D.D.S

We at LocalOzarks would like present Dr. David Ukena D.D.S Dr. Matthew Kufahl D.D.S  with our Local Ozarks Excellence Award. Dr. David Ukena D.D.S Dr. Matthew Kufahl D.D.S  family practice is housed in a More...

Congressman Walter Jones
By localozarks On Sunday, March 11th, 2012
0 Comments

Congressmen Walter Jones Starts Impeachment Process on the President

                    http://jones.house.gov/ There has been a rumor today that Congressman Walter Jones started impeachment process on President Barack Obama. If More...

retrobuilt_image
By localozarks On Monday, March 5th, 2012
0 Comments

Retrobuilt Motors – The Past Is Now The Future

                            RETROBUILT – Here at Retrobuilt we have created a car for the auto enthusiast with the styling of the classic More...

speech_jammer
By localozarks On Monday, March 5th, 2012
0 Comments

Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence

              TOKYO (Newscore) – Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute More...

bill-of-rights-localozarks.com
By localozarks On Friday, March 2nd, 2012
0 Comments

Bill of Rights

                When the Constitution was finally signed by enough states to make it the law, many people still thought that it did not say enough about the rights of the More...

2799103829_a4551f59cb
By localozarks On Thursday, March 1st, 2012
0 Comments

Feds’ solution to foreclosures crisis: Government rentals!

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Monday that it will begin taking bids from investors to buy clusters of foreclosed properties and turn them into rentals. The agency, which oversees government-backed More...

images (4)
By localozarks On Thursday, March 1st, 2012
0 Comments

17 States Considering State Banks

Noel Brinkerhoff All Gov February 29, 2012. Taking a cue from North Dakota, a large number of state governments are considering the establishment of a state bank. In the wake of the financial and mortgage crises, More...

modern-warfare3-200
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

Videogame Sales Fell 34 Percent in January

U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 34 percent in January from a year earlier to $751 million due to the lack of new game titles, according to market researcher NPD Group. NPD More...

A scanning electron microscope image, left, shows a 15-micron line of 50-nanometer spherical gold nanoparticles. At right is a fluorescence image of the same chain, coated with a thin film of Cardiogreen dye using 785 nm laser excitation. (Credit: Link Lab/Rice University)
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

‘Dark Plasmons’ Transmit Energy

Science Daily (Feb. 9, 2012) — Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via “dark plasmons,” according to More...

Mercedeh Khajavikhan in the lab. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California, San Diego)
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

Electrical Engineers Build ‘No-Waste’ Laser

ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2012) — A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, More...

7416898
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

Lady Bears Host Shockers Friday With MVC Lead on the Line

Feb. 8, 2012     Complete Release as a PDF Missouri State Lady Bears (15-6/8-3 MVC) vs. Wichita State Shockers (15-7/9-2 MVC) Date: Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 Tip: 7:07 p.m. (Central) Location: Springfield, More...

By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

Bradly Bears

GAME 27 | BRADLEY (7-19, 2-12 MVC)  AT  MISSOURI STATE (15-11, 8-6 MVC) SUNDAY, FEB. 12, 2012 | 2 P.M. (CST) | SPRINGFIELD, MO. | JQH ARENA (11,000) GAME INFORMATION BRADLEY MISSOURI More...

Elam Long Spomer
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

Three Named to NCBWA Preseason Stopper of the Year Watch List

Three Missouri Valley Conference baseball student-athletes have been named to the initial watch list for the eighth annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, given to the More...

nuclear-power1
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?

      CNN Money February 10, 2012 If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air More...

A petrol bomb explodes near riot police during protests against planned reforms by Greece's coalition government in Athens
By localozarks On Friday, February 10th, 2012
0 Comments

Greeks strike against austerity before crucial vote Greeks strike against austerity before crucial vote

(Reuters) – Striking Greek workers denounced a new wave of austerity on Friday as an imposition too far by Europe and the IMF. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the nation it faced a stark choice between More...

By localozarks On Thursday, February 9th, 2012
0 Comments

Cop Pulls Shotgun on Peaceful Crowd

Police ‘brought excessive force for a sound complaint,’ Crowd leader says. Aaron Dykes Infowars.com February 8, 2012 Shocking video shows that a crazed member of the Houston Police Department pulled a shotgun More...