The shooting happened on Wednesday around 6 p.m. Deputies attempted to arrest the woman wanted on felony charges, according ...

A video was recently posted on youtube of a visit to the Ava Police Department by a man who proclaimed himself a journalist and a First Amendment Auditor. He had a confrontational meeting with the ...

The Benedictine’s of Mary is an order of Catholic cloister nuns that follow the rule of St. Benedict which focuses on prayer and work. Their days are spent in prayer and maintenance of their community ...

The Missouri Highway Patrol on Tuesday evening sent out an errant alert that said authorities were searching for a purple and green 1978 Dodge 3700GT in Gotham City, Missouri.The problem: It was ...

Each month, Ava High School names two students as citizens of the month. The character word for September is Respect. The September Citizens of the Month are Caden Lee and Hannah Evans. Caden Lee is a ...

A one-vehicle accident in Douglas County caused serious injuries early Sunday morning. According to crash reports, Troop G of the Missouri State Highway Patrol says that 29-year-old Jessica Eddings of ...

She is survived by her children: Marie Jones, Carmen Summers and Lyndell Jones all of Springfield. She is also survived by 5 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren, her brother Denzill Turner and his ...

Seven Ava High School basketball players have been named to the South Central Association All-Conference teams. Ava Lady Bear Sara Mendel and Ava Bear Andrew Dalton received first team recognition.

Ava’s most trained and certified martial arts instructor, Jason Jones, was trained by several of the world’s most famous martial arts instructors. He has black belts and instructor certifications in ...

Were you following the newspaper stories that reported the facemask protection experiments conducted by Mrs. Lawler’s third grade class at Ava Elementary School? The experiment investigated how ...

It has been over 110 years since the first railroad locomotive rolled into Ava. It was a time when the horse was still important to transportation of people and materials in the area. But today it is ...

And we thought about the Great Civics Lesson that we lived through, that we watched on television as it happened. And a pretty interesting experiment in sociology as well. How does a group of ...