Flooded mobile home park becomes city park in Hollister HOLLITER, Mo. - Holland Mobile Home Park flooded in both the spring of  2008, and the spring of 2011.  Lake Taneycomo couldn't take any more rain, and flooded the neighborhood. "Both times we  had to do water rescues of families that did ...

Alleged cheating on MAP tests prompt district, state investigations CAMDENTON, Mo. -- School administrators are looking into allegations that a teacher helped students cheat on a state-mandated test. Two staff members at Camdenton Middle School are on administrative leave while the district looks into claims that testing procedures were violated ...

Gas line rupture leads to evacuations at the University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - The University of Arkansas says evacuations at its Fayetteville campus have ended after a leak was stopped following a gas line rupture. The school said an emergency crew stopped the leak at about 12:10 p.m. Wednesday. The ...

Older generation teaches younger generation how to give back Springfield, Mo. -- One day each month dozens of volunteers get together for a type of old-fashioned sewing circle.  They make thousands of specialty items meant for people in the hospital.  For the first time Wednesday, Cox Health expanded that program ...

Greene County deputy's alertness led to 2 arrests for 4 stolen vehicles SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man and a woman are in custody and suspected of stealing two cars and two motorcycles in southwest Missouri.  They were arrested on Wednesday morning about 7:30 after a Greene County sheriff's deputy patrolling north of Springfield ...

Missouri woman wins $13 million judgment against Vatterott College in lawsuit KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman has won a $13 million judgment against Vatterott College in a lawsuit over advice she was given during enrollment at the school. Jennifer Kerr of Belton alleged that she was misled when she ...

Youth leagues try to rein in 'bad news parents'
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) — No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see posted on online video sites.

Jewish educator who survived Soviet Gulag dies
JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84.

Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
MILFORD, Mass. (AP) — He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small dogs bark at the few passers-by.

Quotations of the day
"We're on the verge of doing something dramatic on the border. What we're trying to do is put in place measures that to any reasonable person would be an overwhelming effort to secure our border. This is a key moment in the effort to pass the bill." — Sen. Lindsay Graham, after key senators expressed optimism were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in the immigration legislation.

Advocacy groups urge new US envoy to push Congo governance
KINSHASA (Reuters) - More than a dozen advocacy groups urged the first U.S. special representative to Africa's war-torn Great Lakes region on Wednesday to push for democracy and good governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States named Russ Feingold on Tuesday in an effort to promote peace in a region long afflicted by violence, not least in eastern Congo, where mineral wealth and ethnic strife have drawn in neighbouring states. "We are convinced that this is a critical moment of opportunity for U.S. ...