The first homes were holes in the ground. Emma Ray remembered them clearly — dugouts scraped into the earth after ...

SPRINGFIELD – As a young child, Mary Jo McDonald spent years in foster care and was on the list to be adopted by a new family. That all changed when her troubled mother found the strength to change.

Dr. James I. Robertson spoke to the Civil War Roundtable of the Ozarks on September 20, 1960. The editor of a quarterly publication, Civil War History, and the author of several books, Robertson ...

SPRINGFIELD - Parts of downtown Springfield will be changed into a Civil War field hospital next month. The event - from June 5 to 7- is part of the year-long celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th ...

The NAACP Springfield and the League of Women Voters of Southwest Missouri are collaborating to present Good Trouble: A Teach-In Inspired by John Lewis. The event is an evening of reflection, ...