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Late last week 48-year-old John Michael Felts — who was owner of Taco Habitat restaurants in Springfield and Branson — pleaded guilty to a pair of wire fraud counts related to COVID-19 aid for companies.
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Ozarks Public Radio has learned that a man once linked to the former Agape Boarding School in Cedar County was booked into the Polk County Jail Wednesday night on suspicion of second-degree sodomy, kidnapping, and three counts of sexual misconduct.
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Springfield’s police chief told City Council this week that overall crime is down in the Queen City.
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The Springfield area is known as a hotbed of domestic violence, according to "Living in Fear," a new series of in-depth reports by Jackie Rehwald and Steve Pokin at the Springfield Daily Citizen.
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The Springfield area is known as Missouri's capital of domestic violence. But is that only because those crimes are reported more often here than in other parts of the Show-Me State? KSMU's Gregory Holman is joined by Springfield Daily Citizen journalists Jackie Rehwald and Steve Pokin.
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The Pitts Chapel church in downtown Springfield was founded by enslaved people in 1847. On Sunday afternoon, the newly renovated sanctuary hosted “Speak Out Springfield,” a community reflection on police brutality.
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Sunday night saw another protest by the Springfield branch of the Party of Socialism and Liberation. This time, demonstrators went downtown to denounce the death of Tyre Nichols after he was severely beaten by Memphis, Tennessee police earlier this month.
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Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that authorities arrested two individuals on suspicion of violating a protective order — in what the Department of Justice calls a “scheme” that forcibly took a teenager from California to a southwest Missouri boarding school.
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Can big data promote public safety? Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams is betting that the answer is yes, as shown by his most recent monthly update to City Council. Here's more on how police are identifying crime hotspots around Springfield.
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The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that a rural Ozark County man was charged after leaving a threatening voicemail on the personal cellphone of an Arizona election official.