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Springfield, MO
Joined January 2009
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Tony Hawk was kicked out of Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles Friday, the skateboarding legend announced on social media.
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They’ve gone and done it again. If you weren’t awake at 2 a.m. Sunday, you missed the clocks “falling back” an hour as daylight saving time came to an end.
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A missing McDonald County couple was found dead “about 400 to 500 yards" from their home, on a neighbor's property, Sheriff Evenson said.
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Murphy’s chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, in a statement said the 53-year-old senator “started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game” on Saturday.
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A Hickory County man was found dead in a western Missouri lake Saturday, according to police.
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A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes before crashing near a busy roadway.
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The Camden County Sheriff's Office says its Justice Center will provide a service for Halloween candy inspection after a family found needles in a piece of candy over the weekend.
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Communication from the City of Springfield will look a little different moving forward.
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Dozens of people were injured and at least six people died in mass shootings as gun violence broke out at nightlife districts in half a dozen cities across the country over the Halloween weekend.
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It's the end of an era for a popular attraction in downtown Springfield.
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A motorcyclist was seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle that was being pursued by law enforcement, according to the MSHP.
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The city’s findings indicate that Austin is generally not seeing requests from hyperscaler data centers, none of the current inquiries exceed 75 megawatts, and developers bear the cost of new utility infrastructure.
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Researchers wanted to understand why people sometimes delay treatment, even when lower-cost options are available. Their findings revealed differences between patients in Springfield and rural Polk County.
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The midterm tug-of-war for Senate control will come down to half a dozen coin-toss contests, giving both parties a path to the upper chamber majority.
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Pope Leo XIV on Saturday told the basketball teams from his alma mater Villanova and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame — in Rome for their season opener — that in matters of sport, the pontiff is neutral. Then the pope, who was born Robert Prevost, said his former self might disagree. “Prevost has another opinion, but we won’t do that now,” he said to laughs during a whooping, cheering audience of 7,000 people from both schools — players, coaches, fans and their families — in the Vatican audience hall.
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On the volleyball court, Brooklyn Johnson is just like any other middle school athlete. “I feel like my coaches are like, really nice. And I like being a player for them. And my teammates are always encouraging!” Brooklyn shared when asked about why she loves volleyball. But behind the jersey is a much different reality. “She has a pacemaker and defibrillator in her,” Her mother Kayla Johnson says. “They did a bunch of testing on her when she was a little baby. She had her first episode when she was like, four months. She went into cardiac arrest. My mom was the first one that had to do CPR on her, and they just said it was acid reflux.”
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The teen, Javits Frimpong, was on his way to school in a Bronx neighborhood shortly before 9:30 a.m. Thursday when he was shot in the abdomen, New York City police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital later that day. No arrests have yet been made, and the killing remains under investigation.
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Researchers wanted to understand why people sometimes delay treatment, even when lower-cost options are available. Their findings revealed differences between patients in Springfield and rural Polk County.
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Many of the billed injections were either provided for cosmetic purposes only or were given to patients whose primary care physicians had not referred them for treatment of chronic migraines.
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Many of the products have never been extensively studied in humans, raising concerns that they could cause allergic reactions, metabolic problems and other dangerous side effects.
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