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Flooded mobile home park becomes city park in Hollister

by Mike Landis, KY3 News — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:25:00 CDT

Holland Park replaces neighborhood that flooded twice in recent years

HOLLITER, Mo. - Holland Mobile Home Park flooded in both the spring of 2008, and the spring of 2011. Lake Taneycomo couldn’t take any more rain, and flooded the neighborhood.

Alleged cheating on MAP tests prompt district, state investigations

by Shayla Patrick, KY3 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:25:00 CDT

Questions surround standardized testing procedures at Camdenton Middle School

CAMDENTON, Mo. -- School administrators are looking into allegations that a teacher helped students cheat on a state-mandated test. Two staff members at Camdenton Middle School are on administrative leave while the district looks into claims that testing procedures were violated during this spring's MAP tests.

Gas line rupture leads to evacuations at the University of Arkansas

By: The Associated Press — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:13:00 CDT

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The University of Arkansas says evacuations at its Fayetteville campus have ended after a leak was stopped following a gas line rupture.

Older generation teaches younger generation how to give back

Emily Wood — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:30:00 CDT

Cox Health volunteers taught children how to sew specialty items for hospital patients at a volunteering event Wednesday.

Springfield, Mo. -- One day each month dozens of volunteers get together for a type of old-fashioned sewing circle. They make thousands of specialty items meant for people in the hospital. For the first time Wednesday, Cox Health expanded that program to kids.

Greene County deputy's alertness led to 2 arrests for 4 stolen vehicles

by Gene Hartley — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:00 CDT

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man and a woman are in custody and suspected of stealing two cars and two motorcycles in southwest Missouri. They were arrested on Wednesday morning about 7:30 after a Greene County sheriff’s deputy patrolling north of Springfield spotted a vehicle whose driver failed to stop after an earlier attempted traffic stop. It was parked next to a home at 4536 N. Highway H.

Missouri woman wins $13 million judgment against Vatterott College in lawsuit

By Associated Press — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:56:33 CDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman has won a $13 million judgment against Vatterott College in a lawsuit over advice she was given during enrollment at the school.

Funding available for projects to protect water from pollution

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:33:00 CDT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications to fund projects that will protect Missouri’s waters from pollution caused by stormwater runoff.

Federal authorities identify man from Monett as Springfield bank robber

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:41:00 CDT

Joseph Meierotto is on the run.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Federal authorities are looking for a man from Monett suspected of robbing a bank in Springfield on Friday. Joseph Meierotto, 49, is charged in U.S. District Court for robbing a Great Southern Bank branch at gunpoint.

Monkey business: Macaque triggers alarm in Conway, AR vet clinic

The Log Cabin Democrat, via The Associated Press — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:13:00 CDT

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas veterinary clinic says a 30-pound pet monkey busted out of his steel cage and played with a large orange house cat before he was coaxed back into confinement by a police officer.

Judge convicts man for injuring girlfriend's baby

edited news release from Greene County prosecuting attorney's office — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:32:00 CDT

Ryan Hudson cared for a child who ended up with permanent vision loss, likely from being shaken.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Greene County judge recently convicted Ryan Hudson, 26, of Springfield for abusing his former girlfriend’s 3-month-old child. Following presentation of the evidence in a one-day trial on May 9, 2013, Judge Calvin Holden found Hudson guilty of child abuse.