criminal justice

For the second time since May, a small group of Missouri sexual abuse survivors gathered at the federal courthouse in downtown Springfield to denounce boarding school abuse in rural areas. A note for our listeners and readers: This report contains frank discussion of severe abuse allegations.

In an official statement, Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott says he is “appalled” by the alleged conduct of a former employee, Jessy Ray Snow.

After a daylong trial late last month that touched on concepts of harassment versus First Amendment-protected political speech, a Missouri judge on Wednesday found local attorney Ted Salveter guilty of harassing a Springfield City Councilmember and his wife.

A court case in Greene County is currently underway to find whether local attorney Ted Salveter III is guilty of harassment against Springfield City Councilman Abe McGull and his wife, lawyer Crista Hogan.

Boyd Householder died Tuesday, according to reporting by the Kansas City Star citing multiple sources.

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.

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.

Springfield’s police chief told City Council this week that overall crime is down in the Queen City.

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.

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.