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Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 5:39 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
The Garrison’s have found a surgeon to help Moxie with a potentially life-saving surgery, but it’s in London and the payment is expected in advance.
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Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 5:23 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Brian Arnold continues performing despite two, major life changing events.
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Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 5:26 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Debra Walden Davis was approached by Operation Song to see if they could write a song about her and her father.
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Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 7:21 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
For four years, Sparta fans watched Kavan battle rival teams. But away from the court, he has another battle.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 5:18 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Rosette Elizabeth Hurst is working on her fourth children’s book.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 5:18 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Exeter non-profit builds beds for area kids who sleep on couches, chairs, or floors.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:24 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Johnny Mullins wrote songs for Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn, and others.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 10:11 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
The workshop at SWI Industrial Solutions is always busy; but especially busy right now. The Easter Bunny needs these Sunny Bunny Easter Eggs filled.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 10:22 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
In the shadow of the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs is the last place a beloved black dog was seen.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 9:35 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
This is not just a gingerbread house but a piece of art created by students at College of the Ozarks.
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Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 9:33 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
The rifle Ralphie wanted in the movie didn’t exist in the 1940s. So what did Daisy do?
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 5:14 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Annually, between 10,000 and 13,000 College of the Ozarks’ fruitcakes are made.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 8:45 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Yume's bunnies sit at her shop’s checkout greeting customers and showing off their unique talent.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 9:18 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
Eventually, through hard work, Ellie Rowe and others turn the page on their disease. They learn how to live and thrive with it.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 9:39 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
H.K. has played the fiddle longer than most of us have been alive. He taught himself how to play as a kid.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 6:42 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
You can reach out to Craig Logan if you’d like to help Shoot’n for Dreams or to nominate a kid for an upcoming hunt.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 at 9:23 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Built in 1836 to ensure Jefferson City would remain the state capital, no one wanted to end up there. Today though, guests are dying to get in thanks to this property being considered, one of the most haunted places in Missouri.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2022 at 10:19 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Hundreds of deaths happened inside the penitentiary. Some think the hate, chaos, and angst left an imprint on the property.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 9:40 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
These buildings were fortresses to keep Missouri’s worst from escaping. Today many believe some of these inmates still cannot leave.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 9:22 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
It’s not as old as Stonehenge or as mysterious as the heads on Easter Island but the shoreline at Big M Campground near Cassville was awe-inspiring.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2022 at 8:20 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Kaila, like Sam, had numerous surgeries. And Kaila, like Sam, is focused on the future, not the past.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2022 at 10:23 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
The regal’s habitat is disappearing. We have lost close to 99% of Missouri's native tallgrass prairie.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 5:29 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Dustin's inventions of the WHAC and the Switch Hitter help kids with disabilities play baseball.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By Chad Plein
No one in Miller has made it this far for teacher of the year.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 10:17 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Just as their classrooms have moved on from chalkboards to whiteboards, these two teachers have transformed as well.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 5:16 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
You don’t need any formal training as a singer, or pirate, to attend and have fun.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 9:37 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Mark and Nick Costello are a rare, father and son Purple Heart pair.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 10:01 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
From what Rich Green could tell, his mystery building originally had six units. Two of which were later combined to form the Wayside Inn.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 9:31 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Long before the lake, the Monarchs filled Stockton with excitement.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 6:27 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Watt’s original plan was to have his cousin be an on-the-track rival and an off-the-track mentor. But life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 9:37 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Johnny Wilkinson toured and recorded with the King of Rock and Roll. Johnny played rhythm guitar for the Taking Care of Business Band.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 7:57 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
A gambling debt needed to be settled. Some dime-store novels say Wild Bill owed Tutt, $25.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 8:25 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Next summer, for the first time in the history of its Folklife Festival, the Smithsonian wants to focus on the Ozarks.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2022 at 7:33 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Over the centuries, lavender has been known to ease anxiety and pain. In 2013, it’s exactly what Thor and Catherine Bersted needed.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 5:24 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Dan Bryan got an idea from an author who shares his son's name, Springfieldian Ethan Bryan. His book, A Year of Playing Catch, is about meeting new friends, and sharing old stories.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 9:27 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
The Jurassic Park Motor Pool will have 40-to-50 movie replica vehicles at the Branson IMAX for the opening weekend of the new Jurassic movie.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2022 at 12:13 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
All summer long, folks can enjoy Sculpture Walk Springfield, a collection of art featured across downtown.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 2:14 PM CDT
|By Chad Plein
A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for others. Dr. Fleetwood, Nixa’s teacher of the year, has been that candle for the high school oftentimes burning at both ends.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 5:27 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
“(Dr. Julian) said that if I got Jason Aldean to our school,” Roberts said, “we would definitely have the talent show. So, honestly, I was like, Okay, I’m gonna do it.”
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 12:32 PM CDT
|By Alyssa Kelly
A local hockey player is combining his passions with his drive to help others with a journey that’s one for the books and will take him across the U.S. from coast to coast.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 10:22 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Like the transformation of Hillcrest High School, Richard Ryder’s life has been reconstructed.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 2:51 PM CDT
|By Chad Plein
A piece of notebook paper or two gives them a chance to reflect on what they are now leaving behind.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 5:28 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
The Ozark Jubilee first aired on KY3 the day after Christmas, 1953. In 1955, ABC picked it up and broadcast it around the nation.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 1:14 PM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Following World War II, the Wilson's Creek Foundation was created with the intent of purchasing the Civil War Battlefield as a way to honor those veterans.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2022 at 9:21 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Doug Cox creates some of these creations for Sculpture Walk Springfield. Peculiar pieces sprinkled across Springfield.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2022 at 9:47 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
To the north of Division the railroad town. To the south, the city with established businesses and industry. A rivalry was born.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 5:27 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Pam Vowell has been a professional artist for 30-years. Now in retirement, she wants to use her talent to help the homeless in Springfield.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 8:54 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
Sitting in south Springfield is David Harrison Elementary School. An honor David Harrison himself cannot comprehend.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 8:55 AM CDT
|By Chad Plein
From livestock to a menagerie of animals, over the years, Doc has seen it all.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 5:27 AM CST
|By Chad Plein
The money raised from the sales of VIP cards goes to benefit the Foundation for Springfield Public Schools and the CoxHealth Foundation.