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Circuit Judge Craig Carter processed a total of nine civil cases and 40 criminal cases during the April 4 session of Ozark County Law Day. The criminal cases are listed below.
Cases to reach dispositionLogan Bazzle pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of...
Barry Brown
Barry Scott Brown, 54, of Caulfield is currently being held in the Ozark County Jail on a $100,000 cash-only bond after allegedly holding his wife at gunpoint with a shotgun and holding her 9-year-old son at gunpoint with an “Uzi-type firearm.” Brown also reportedly discharged the shotgun once...
This year’s Lions Club auction netted a record $21,000 for Gainesville’s summer ball program and other local projects supported by the Gainesville Lions Club. The annual fund-raiser, now in its 31st year, was held Friday night at Gainesville High School. It included a chili supper and silent...
Missouri Ozarks Community Health held an open house Wednesday, April 18 for the public to tour the new building on Elm Street north of the Gainesville post office. The $1.2 million, 6,000-square-foot medical and dental facility was partially funded by a $900,000 Health Infrastructure Investment...
The mobile mammogram unit from Baxter Regional Medical Center will be in the Gainesville High School parking lot from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 22. For an appointment, contact high school nurse Britni Davis at 679-4200. Appointments must be made on or before May 15.
Sam Thompson, son of Andy and Jennifer Luna Thompson of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, has signed to play soccer at Rockhurst University in Kansas City in the fall. Sam, who expects to graduate from Shawnee Mission East High School in May, also received an academic scholarship from Rockhurst. He is...
Felipe “Phil” Ortega
Felipe “Phil” Ortega of Gainesville will celebrate his 90th birthday May 1. He was born May 1, 1928, in Peoria, Illinois, and served as a paratrooper in the Army. On March 10, 1951, in Illinois, he married Darlene Black; they enjoyed 61 years together before her death on Aug. 18, 2012.Phil worked...
Cindy Ragland, 59, hopes the Ozark County Long-Term Recovery Committee, which works to put flood survivors in touch with available government and charitable resouces, can help her find a way to rebuild her James Lane home.
Cindy Ragland, one of Peggy and Clint Donahue's James Lane neighbors, lost everything in the 2017 flood. Her entire house disappeared in the beautiful river she loved when it became a rushing, overwhelming torrent of debris. Now, a year later, she still has nothing but the foundation where her home...
Jeff Dotson, left, is pastor of Mission Square Church in Gainesville, which hosts a drug-recovery meeting each Monday evening and is part of the Ministerial Alliance sponsoring a May 5 program at the Gainesville Church of Christ focusing on the current drug epidemic. Heather and Kenny Cotter, right, are recovering addicts who attend the church services and share their story and their experiences at the Monday meetings – and also urge residents to attend the May 5 gathering, where Greene County Drug Court Commissioner Peggy Davis will speak.
Drug court commissioner to speak at May 5 event at Gainesville Church of Christ
Peggy Davis, drug court commissioner for the 31st Circuit Court in Greene County, will be the speaker at a drug epidemic informational meeting to be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the Gainesville Church of Christ...
This photo was taken Monday, May 1, 2017, after the historically high North Fork River had caused Peggy Donahue and her family to flee to the roof, where they waited nine hours in the dark for rescue as the raging water swirled around them.
Editor’s note: This is one of several updates we’ll share this week and next recounting survivors’ recovery from last year’s historic flood on the weekend of April 29-30, 2017. See additional story, page 16.
Carpenters and roofers were working at Clint and Peggy Donahue’s vacation house on James...