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Kaboom. If you were close enough to a Missouri highway vehicle, that would have been the deafening sound when lightning completely unloaded 200 million volts in a microsecond.

Of all the fears parents have, this is one of the worst. There is a report that a man tried to abduct an 11-year-old girl who was playing in her yard in a tiny Missouri town where things like this aren't supposed to happen.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to spike in southwestern Missouri.

A Hannibal man suffers moderate injuries in a single vehicle crash on Highway 125 south of Strafford in Greene County in southwest Missouri at 12:46 p.m. Monday.

Authorities have identified two victims of severe weather that has claimed at least eight lives in Missouri.

Police say three people suspected of shoplifting at a south Springfield Walmart are also suspects in a shooting in central California.

A Springfield, MO, city report on the local judicial system says nearly 3,000 crimes have gone virtually unpunished since Greene County's sheriff announced in April he would no longer accept municipal prisoners at the county jail. The Springfield News-Leader reports one Greene County official called the report propaganda in support of a lawsuit the city filed against Sheriff Jim Arnott for his act

A southwestern Missouri man is accused of injuring a couple by throwing acid on them during a confrontation.

A judge has set a trial date for a southwest Missouri man charged with raping and killing a 10-year-old girl.

Springfield police say three people responded to a 14-year-old girl's screams along a dark trail and stopped a 22-year-old man from raping her.