Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A man is in surgery after a shooting overnight in north Springfield, and police are looking for the person who shot him. Springfield police say they were called to the Studio Rentals apartment complex in the 1000 block of West Norton Road at roughly 3 a.m. for a reported shooting. Officers found the victim inside one of the apartments there. The man, 32 years old, was taken to a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. At last check, the man was in surgery but his condition wasn't known.

The Springfield City Council is looking to remove zoning restrictions on flea markets and second hand stores. Right now, those stores are limited to certain areas of Springfield like downtown and C-street. According to City Council members, there's an increase of people who want to open these kinds of stores but in places not zoned for them. They also have seen an increase in stores selling both new and used items, so they say the distinction isn't necessary anymore. Local store owners say they are seeing an increase in business.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A man is in a hospital and his kids are in protective custody after a standoff in north Springfield Monday night. According to Springfield Police Lt. Scott Umbarger, a woman called police just before 8 p.m. saying she had just broken up with her boyfriend and he was threatening to kill himself. The man was in a house on North Main Avenue near Kearney Street, and his two small kids were with him. Umbarger said officers arrived and heard a gunshot. After more than an hour of talking to the man on the phone, he came out of the house peacefully.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - It is something you do not  hear of everyday: an entire house being recycled. It is all to make way for the Brentwood Library Branch expansion project in Springfield. The house is located at 1911 E. Wayland Drive, just east of Glenstone and Brentwood Boulevard. It is right next to the Brentwood Branch. After it is torn down, it will be part of the library's parking lot. But now, all of the materials inside and outside must be recycled. Many builders came out Saturday to bargain hunt.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Springfield financial advisor Nadia Cavner is no longer with BancorpSouth. Randy Burchfield, a Bancorpsouth spokesman said today (4-26) that Cavner is no longer associated with the corporation. When we asked Burchfield if Cavner's guilty plea had anything to do with her employment change at the bank... he said "no comment. "  BancorpSouth tells KSPR News the brokerage firm on East Sunshine of the remains open to serve its clients. Cavner pleaded guilty to an interstate stalking charge.  Federal prosecutors argued Cavner harassed the former boyfriend of her daughter at his home in Memphis, Tennessee.  Prosecutors recommended a sentence of probation.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Police say some pretty graphic video of a man berating downtown Springfield police officers can be misleading. Officers say Park Central Square is one of the safest places in the city. About two and half years ago, Springfield police decided to dedicated two squads of officers to Center City which includes the square and the rest of downtown.  That means at the very least there's seven officers and some times as many as 18 or 20 for special events like pub crawls.  We were hard-pressed to find anyone Friday who says that doesn't make them feel safe.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - One out of four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.  It is a statistic Monique Smith never thought she would be a part of. "For a minute you always think of going back and then if you really study it, it is the same thing you hear. The same thing verbal abuse is just as bad," she says. When Smith woke up after taking medication to help her insomnia, her life forever changed. "We started arguing and he hit me across the head," says Smith.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - After a decade of airline mergers and cuts airport officials are optimistic about the future of flights this year. That's what officials will be focusing on when they address the community in the State of the Springfield-Branson Airport address. Airport officials say the amount of passengers is a sign that the worst is over. They say a few years ago, the planes you see behind me were half full and airlines were losing money. Now they say airlines are starting to break even.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- If you have concerns about traffic and school construction in west Springfield, the city is holding a meeting on Wednesday night.  It's focused on Hilton Avenue, between Chestnut Expressway and Mount Vernon Street. The meeting starts at 5 at Westport Elementary School on Golden Avenue.  There will be a short presentation to look at existing traffic conditions on Hilton Avenue as well as an update on the ongoing school construction in the area.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A woman is arrested and charged after threatening to blow up City Utilities of Springfield's building.  According to the probable cause statement, Jennifer Haege was upset over the possible disconnection of her utilities because she didn't pay the bill. The probable cause statement says she wrote several threatening e-mail messages.  One read, “It's no wonder people snap and blow businesses up. " Then she posted this on her Facebook page:  “...I really want to blow the utility company up I understand why people go postal for real...