Highway Transportation

WILLARD, Mo  -  Construction will start Monday to improve a dangerous intersection in Willard. A stop light and left turn lane will be installed at Highway 160 and Hunt Road. The traffic along US Highway 160 travels as fast as 60 miles per hour which...

LACLEDE COUNTY, Mo. - A man from Arkansas is dead after he exited a moving vehicle on Interstate 44, and a tractor-trailer hit him one minute later as he lay on the westbound lanes of the freeway. Solomon T. Simpson, 19, of Fayetteville, Ark., was killed...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A deer running across an interstate highway on the northern edge of Kansas City is blamed for the death of a motorcyclist and injuries to his son after a chain-reaction crash.   The Kansas City Star reports 41-year-old Anthony...

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- On a winter's night in late January 2010, Rhonda West was run over and killed near her hometown of Waynesville.  She died on Missouri 17.   On Thursday, West's daughter, Renee West, sued the top brass in Waynesville's Police...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An overturned tractor trailer has an onramp connecting two of Springfield's largest highways closed for several hours, transportation officials say. Crews have shut down the eastbound Interstate 44 to northbound U.S. Highway 65 onramp...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - A 23-year-old woman is hospitalized after jumping from a moving car on Interstate 70 in suburban St. Louis.   KSDK-TV reports that the incident happened during afternoon rush hour Tuesday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says...

SALEM, Mo. -- A woman died after a fiery crash on Saturday morning.  According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Joy King's car was westbound at a high rate of speed on Missouri 32.  A mile west of Salem, just before 10 a.m., her vehicle went off...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A variety of wintry precipitation is falling across the Ozarks this morning, bringing one of the latest snowfalls in recorded history in our area. The snow has caused problems for drivers across the region as several roads have become...

Springfield, Mo. -- The newest exhibit at the History Museum on the Square is called 'Woodruff's Dream:  The Mother Road Through Springfield.'  The narrow hallways of the museum are filled with artifacts, photos, and newspaper clippings.  They tell the...

REPUBLIC, Mo. -- A four-vehicle crash killed two people on U.S. 60 in front of Republic Ford at Oakwood Avenue (Farm Road 93) on Wednesday morning.  Late Wednesday afternoon, the driver of the truck that caused the crash was charged with two counts of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Federal authorities say they broke up a multi-state dogfighting ring that included training pit bulls to fight in Kansas, Missouri and Texas.   Pete Davis Jr. and Melvin Robinson are charged in a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A chase that snaked across Springfield on Thursday afternoon ended when law enforcement officers arrested the driver at a hotel.  The sheriff says the chase reached speeds as high as 70mph. Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott says the...