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A 30-member Citizens Commission on Community Investment was appointed by Springfield City Council earlier this week. Commissioners will soon start work. Their task is deciding whether to ask voters to renew a key sales tax passed during the Great Recession — and how to spend the money.
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In the Great Recession era, Springfield passed a sales tax to address a $200 million shortfall in the pension fund for police and firefighters. Now the city is looking to possibly renew that sales tax.
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Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams gave a complex crime report at the July 24 City Council meeting.
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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 Springfield Police Department said Friday that 48-year-old Springfield resident Danny R. Piper was charged Thursday with enticement of a child and attempted child kidnapping.
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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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On Thursday, Dec. 15, Branson City Administrator Cathy Stepp named a new police chief for the Taney County town, effective immediately.
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KSMU's Gregory Holman was joined by Springfield Daily Citizen public affairs reporter Cory Matteson to talk about the Nov. 3 incident at Hillcrest High School — and how police, first responders and journalists use police scanner information in ways that try to limit the spread of misinformation.
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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.