Amazon is hiring around 500 full time jobs at the new Republic Distribution Center and several hundred part time jobs at the AMXL facility in Springfield. The Missouri Job Center is partnering with Amazon in hosting a two-day hiring event on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 23rd and 24th at the center at 2900 East Sunshine […]

Nixa State House Representative Tricia Derges has decided that a local Springfield lawyer isn’t the best choice for heading up her legal defense to fraud and drug charges. Attorney Stacie Bilyeu’s office confirmed to KWTO Monday morning that they are no longer working with Rep. Derges. On last week, St. Louis attorney Albert Watkins was […]

Patients at Mercy Hospital in Cassville have been evacuated because of a fire that broke out Monday morning. The police chief says the fire appears to have started in an air conditioning unit on the roof. The patients were loaded into ambulances while the hospital figured out where to take them. There have been no […]

A Tulsa man is dead and another is hospitalized after falling through the ice on Swan Creek near Forsyth. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says that the two men started to walk on the ice when it cracked and gave way. Both men fell into the water. Emergency personnel, including the Missouri State Highway Patrol, […]

by U.S. Representative Billy Long At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warned that we could be years away from an effective vaccine. Despite this warning President Trump confidently stated that a vaccine would be created before the end of 2020. Some of these same experts warned that this wasn’t possible, and the President […]