Missouri is home to more than 900 black bears and their numbers are growing. Occasionally they’ll be spotted in Texas County.

A man already in the Texas County Jail has new charges against him, authorities said. Devin Parker stated he was planning an assault when he was released from his jail cell, authorities said. New ...

The Licking Fire Department will hold an open house Oct. 12 at its station on Old Salem Road. The event runs from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The department is inviting the community to tour its station and ...

Low-level airplane flights are planned over a broad region in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas to image geology using airborne technology. The work includes Texas County, U.S. Geological Survey officials ...

Commissioner Robert Ross attended an Ozark Action meeting held Tuesday, Sept. 24. Reviewed and acknowledged an electronic notice resignation from Vera Copeland as a full-time jailer effective Sept. 23 ...

Funeral services for Reta Ice, age 75, of Houston, will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 5 at Ozark Baptist Church.

The following are dissolutions of marriage that were filed in August – September 2024. Aug. 1, 2024 — Meredith Michelle Justice of Houston and Anthony Scott Justice of Salem. Aug. 5, 2024 — Brandon ...

Prosecutors have filed three charges against a Seymour man who they allege left an accident scene earlier this summer on Highway 32. David M. Hunsucker, born in 1982, is charged with failing to drive ...

Houston cross country runners turned in several memorable performances in the annual Mountain Grove Open Tuesday at Randel-Hinkle Municipal Golf Course.

A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed on Tuesday of last week over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor, who wanted ...

The annual State of the University address hosted by Missouri State University-West Plains is 11:30 a.m. Thursday (today), at Hass-Darr Hall on the MSU-WP campus.

A gray cat living an extraordinary life of visits to the beach and trips to the lake went on his biggest adventure alone, traveling hundreds of miles from Wyoming to California.