Stories from Thursday, October 29, 2020

The number of active COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases in Barry County is above 200 for the first time, and one-third of the new cases have been recorded in a Cassville nursing home. According the Barry County Health Department and Barry County Office of Emergency Management, there have been 1,064 (+182) confirmed positive cases of COVID-19, including one presumptive and four antibody positives. ...

Michael Wayne Benton, age 66, a resident of Washburn, Mo., passed away Tuesday, October 27, 2020, in Cassville, Mo. He was born September 15, 1954, in Blackwell, Okla., the son of Tom and Laverne (Wolfe) Benton. He was an avid outdoors man, loving to hunt and fish. He dearly loved his kids, grandkids and his riding buddy Snoopy, who traveled many miles on the road with him...

  A Monett man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy that distributed more than 20 pounds of methamphetamine in southern Missouri. Eric Eugene Akins, 54, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 12 years in federal prison without parole...