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Mtn. View will have extra trash pickup Monday through Friday and brush pickup June 24 through 28, city officials announce.
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5/11/24
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Missouri lawmakers are set to pass a roughly $51 billion budget. The GOP-led Legislature faces a 6 p.m. Friday deadline to pass a state spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year. Senators passed …
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By DAVID A. LIEB and SUMMER BALLENTINE
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5/10/24
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Willow Springs High School’s Class of 2024 celebrated graduation exercises Saturday.
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5/9/24
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A Willow Springs man has been charged with eight felony counts after allegedly using a belt to assault two of his children.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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5/9/24
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The Zizzer Pride Band has a new leader.
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5/9/24
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Glenwood School and the Heart of the Ozarks United Way received more than $34,000 in funding from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, in partnership with the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation and Commerce Trust, on April 30, announce officials with the CFO.
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5/9/24
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Justin L. Massey, 40, West Plains, was sentenced April 23 to two years and six months in federal prison, without parole, for illegally harvesting and stealing trees from Mark Twain National Forest, according to Western District of Missouri U.S. Attorney's Office Public Affairs Officer Don Ledford.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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5/9/24
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Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. Parson signed the legislation Thursday in his Jefferson …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE
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5/9/24
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A total of 250 students will be candidates for graduation from Missouri State University-West Plains during the 2024 commencement ceremony Saturday at the West Plains Civic Center.
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5/8/24
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The Quill has been informed by the defense attorney representing a West Plains teen that he has been acquitted of rape and sodomy after a 12-person jury found him not guilty. The trial of Levi Rand, 18, was held April 29 in Howell County, according to court documents.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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5/8/24
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K-12 students from low-income families across Missouri soon will have access to private school scholarships. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday signed a bill expanding the voucher-like program …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE
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5/8/24
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A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom but is stopping short of a broader prohibition against the state's ban …
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By ANDREW DeMILLO
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5/8/24
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The Homeland Cemetery Association will have a work day at 9 a.m. May 18.
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5/8/24
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Ozarks Healthcare Behavioral Health Center's Patient Experience Team announces its upcoming Spring Fling Carnival, a celebration in honor of May being Mental Health Awareness Month.
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5/8/24
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We celebrate National Women’s Health Week from May 12 through 18.
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By Debbie Anderson, LPN,
Howell County Health Department
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5/8/24
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Former President Donald Trump remains stuck in the courtroom listening to salacious details of an affair he denies. But another spectacle is playing out as his vice presidential tryouts get underway. …
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By JILL COLVIN, LISA MASCARO and ANDREW DeMILLO
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5/8/24
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Seven more Republican states are suing to challenge a new federal regulation to protect transgender student rights. The GOP lawsuits were filed in federal courts in Missouri and Oklahoma, but …
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By ANDREW DeMILLO
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5/7/24
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A West Plains man has been charged with the felonies of first-degree burglary and stealing a firearm after allegedly entering a shop building and taking a rifle, then returning the next day to enter a house on the property while the victim was inside. Then taking a gun and cash.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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5/7/24
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Traditional jig dancing will again be featured at this year’s Old-Time Music, Ozarks Heritage Festival in downtown West Plains. The Bob Holt Jig Dancing Competition will take place at 12:30 p.m. June 8, in the West Plains Civic Center arena.
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5/7/24
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